Muscle

Common expressions

• build up / develop your muscles

• relax / tense your muscles

• massage (tense) muscles

• pull a muscle

• (a bath) soothes tired muscles

• muscles feel stiff

Exercise

Common expressions

1. Try not to tense the muscles in your stomach so much. Breathe out slowly and try to relax them.

2. I use weights in the gym to build up my muscles.

3. Our best player won’t be able to play on Saturday because he's pulled a muscle.

4. After a hard day at work, I get my wife to massage the tense muscles in my back.

5. My leg muscles usually feel stiff for days after I've run a marathon.

6. After the football match, I had a long, hot bath to soothe my tired and aching leg muscles.

Note

Note this expression:

How can the guards at the palace gates stand for hours without moving a muscle?