Regimen - February 07, 2025

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1. 0:00This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Marco in Italy.
2. 0:10Here is Marco's question.
3. 0:13Dear Teacher, I want to understand more when to use the word regimen for exercise
4. 0:22or other actions.
5. 0:25Thank you. I'm happy to answer this question, Marco.
6. 0:30A regimen is usual and repeated action, especially in training.
7. 0:39In health care, it is a systematic plan to improve a person's health.
8. 0:47A training regimen, for example,
9. 0:50can include exercises people can do to help them get the results they want.
10. 0:57For example, a long-distance runner's regimen might include runs
11. 1:05of 10 or 20 kilometers every week.
12. 1:11Note that we often put another noun before the word regimen to help identify it more clearly.
13. 1:21These are called attributive nouns.
14. 1:25They act similarly to adjectives, as in the following examples.
15. 1:33A weightlifting regimen.
16. 1:36A workout regimen.
17. 1:38A running regimen.
18. 1:41A walking regimen.
19. 1:44A stretching regimen.
20. 1:47In fact, you can more clearly identify any kind
21. 1:52of regimen by placing an attributive noun before it.
22. 1:58For example, musicians can have a practice regimen,
23. 2:03and students can have a study regimen.
24. 2:09To express what actions or steps are in a regimen,
25. 2:14we can use the verb and preposition consist of, as the following example shows.
26. 2:24My exercise regimen consists of strength training two days a week and running or walking most other days.
27. 2:35Note that native speakers might substitute the word routine for regimen in some situations.
28. 2:44Here are some examples.
29. 2:46What practice routine do you follow?
30. 2:50You can use this daily routine to improve your fitness.
31. 2:55A medical regimen is a series of repeated treatments.
32. 3:01For example, a doctor might tell a patient to take a certain medicine two times a day
33. 3:09for two weeks.
34. 3:12We often put adjectives, like medical, before the word regimen, also.
35. 3:20Daily and effective are commonly used, as in...
36. 3:27Try to include long walks in your daily regimen.
37. 3:32You need an effective regimen for losing weight.
38. 3:36And it is not unusual to use both an adjective and an attributive noun,
39. 3:44Like in this example.
40. 3:49She swims two kilometers a day as part of a strict training regimen.
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42. 4:03Do you have a special study regimen?
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