What do you call these actions?

[Boris Tatarenko]

Hello.

How do you call these actions (and things) in English. I've been trying to find something, just check what I found and say what I didn't find please.
1. this device and action (I found: horizontal bar and chin-up)
2. this device and action (parallel bars and I don't know)

3. this (weight and I don't know the process)

4. this action (nothing)

5. and this action (push-up)


An extra question: would my questions sound better if I replace "action" with "process"?
Thanks in advance.

 

[MikeNewYork]

1. That is a "pull up", not a "chin up". With a "chin up" the palms of the hands would face into to the body.
2. No idea.
3. Bench press
4. Sit up
5. Push up.

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Thanks.

Why do you have no idea of the second picture? Don't you see the picture good enough? I can find another.

 

[Barb_D]

You can say "this exercise." Don't say "this process."

 

[Barb_D]

My guess is because it doesn't look like a common exercise. Everyone knows sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, etc. I have no idea what that man is doing. I looks like some sort of modified push-up. I've never seen someone exercising that way on parallel bars.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Thanks.

Why do you have no idea of the second picture? Don't you see the picture good enough? I can find another.

I can see it. I don't know what it is called.

 

[emsr2d2]

My flatmate says that the man in picture no 2 is almost certainly doing a "tricep dip".

 

[MikeNewYork]

My flatmate says that the man in picture no 2 is almost certainly doing a "tricep dip".

I prefer the ice cream double dip. ;-)

 

[Rover_KE]

Boris, please note that I have edited your thread title.

'How do you call these actions?' is incorrect English.

 

[5jj]

My flatmate says that the man in picture no 2 is almost certainly doing a "tricep dip".

If your flatmate knows that sort of thing, I'd recommend finding a new flatmate. He sounds dangerous.

Why do you have no idea of the second picture?

I was impressed that Mike knew four of the five. I, being one of those sensible people who do not cause pain and distress to their bodies, knew only one, #5. Incidentally, we often call #5 a press-up in BrE.

 

[emsr2d2]

If your flatmate knows that sort of thing, I'd recommend finding a new flatmate. He sounds dangerous.

Well, you've met him! The only thing that's dangerous about him is his ability to fall asleep before the bottle's finished! Which is dangerous for the rest of us.

I, too, would use "press-up" not "push-up". I hasten to add that I would only use the word, not attempt the action. I also thought #1 was a chin-up but didn't know they had different names depending on which way the hands were facing. If I attached my hands to a bar without my feet touching the ground, the only words suitable for my position would be "helplessly dangling".

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Boris, please note that I have edited your thread title.

'How do you call these actions?' is incorrect English.

Hilarious. I thought "what do you call..." was incorrect English. Thanks :-D

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Thanks for you replies.

I want to say that the exercise #2 is quite common in Russia (and Ukraine). I'm surprised that you don't know what is it. :-D

Honestly, I don't understand the difference between chin-up and pull-up.

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks for you replies.

I want to say that the exercise #2 is quite common in Russia (and Ukraine). I'm surprised that you don't know what is it. :-D

Honestly, I don't understand the difference between chin-up and pull-up.

Did you not understand what Mike meant when he said that the palms would be facing towards you in a chin-up?

Look at the position of the hands in this picture and in this picture.

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Oh, thanks. I really didn't understand what MikeNY said. Now I got the difference.

 

[Tdol]

The only thing that's dangerous about him is his ability to fall asleep before the bottle's finished!

If he spent less time dipping his triceps, he might be able to stay awake longer.

 

[Barb_D]

If I attached my hands to a bar without my feet touching the ground, the only words suitable for my position would be "helplessly dangling".

I knew we were kindred souls.

I would add that there was a time when I was in great shape, and I did triceps dips, but I did so with my arms behind me, gripping the edge of a bench, with my legs extended in front of me, only my heels on the ground. I'd support my body weight on my arms, and bend my elbows. This had the advantage of only needing a level surface a few feet off the ground, not some fancy apparatus.

 

[5jj]

there was a time when ... I did triceps dips,

I'm not sure that's something you should admit in a public forum.

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

I'm not sure that I translated "in great shape" correctly. Can you rephrase it?

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm not sure that I translated "in great shape" correctly. Can you rephrase it?

Very fit (physically). Having a good body shape due to fitness and exercise.