No Excuses: New Workout Phrases for a New Year | Language
A fresh start to the calendar is a symbolic moment to make changes in one’s life. New Year’s Resolutions (新年计划 xīnnián jìhuà), usually to do with accomplishing a personal goal or breaking a bad habit, are becoming more and more popular with young Chinese today.
According to data research software developer Statistica, around 50 percent of Americans made New Year’s Resolutions to exercise more last year, and 48 percent planned to lose weight. In 2016, newspaper China Youth Daily published a similar survey, with 60 percent of Chinese respondents vowing to “keep fit and take care of themselves” after the Lunar New Year.
New year, new atmosphere. I will start exercising.
Xīnnián xīn qìxiàng, wǒ yào kāishǐ jiànshēn.
新年新气象，我要开始健身。
I want to transform myself by spring.
Wǒ yào zài chūntiān wánchéng yì chǎng tuìbiàn.
我要在春天完成一场蜕变。
It doesn’t help that most things people eat during the holidays tend to expand their figure:
Every holiday I gain 5 kilograms. How can I burn these calories?
Měi féng jiājié pàng shí jīn, rúhé ránshāo kǎlùlǐ?
每逢佳节胖十斤，如何燃烧卡路里？
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