English Conversation Course

Each of my trainings I start from a warm-up. The warm-up is an essential part of training and one of the most important. Some people don't do warm-ups before training, and I think it's a big mistake because you risk injuring yourself. I spend 10-15 minutes on the warm up. After that, I start my training. Usually my training lasts from 90 to 120 minutes. I'm a powerlifter, that's why I focus on 3 main exercises: a bench press, a squat and a deadlift. Each of them I do on different days of  a week along with assistance exercises. So usually, it's one group of muscles in one day, but sometimes I can mix them and for example can do the bench press with squats etc. Main exercises could take more than half of whole training time. It's because I'm trying to increase my strength. In such types of training people usually do few reps in set with a long pause between sets. For example, when I do the deadlift,  the pause between each set is around 4-5 minutes and the ...

All of us have watched or heard about those talent shows: "America's got talent", "Britain's got talent" and so on. This video is about first audition of Piff the Magic Dragon on TV show "America's got Talent". He's a magician from Las Vegas, Nevada. He is very serious person,  the same as his magic tricks. He always wears a realistic costume of dragon when he performs. Sometimes it's hard to realize that it's just human and not a dragon. Did you like the way he shows magic tricks? Have you ever heard about Piff the Magic Dragon before? Do you want to buy the same table as he has? Will you watch his other performances?

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Today’s kids are surrounded by totally different enviroment than kids from 90’s. They are growing up in the world with such a great oppurtinities to develop their skills thanks to technology progress. Questions:           What is the major difference between growing up at 90’s and nowadays?   2.     If you could choose - when would you like to born, at present or in the past?   3.     What do you think about young developers?

Most of the people are complaining about boredom during the winter time. Of course they are happy at the beggining of that season thanks to snowing, christmas time but after few weeks they are getting tired because of lack of physical activity. Whilst you don’t have any influence of changing seasons, you don’t have to wait till summer because there is perfect solution which calls snowboarding.                                      There are a lot of advantages of this winter sport. First of all it puts you in a good mood due to releasing endorphins responsible for happiness. It also increase your flexibility because you have to change directions. Moreover it requires body balance. You are increasing self-confidence whenever you obtain new skill and crossing your own barriers. If you like muscle traning, you have to try snowboarding because during ride your major muscle groups works...

Most of you recognize this guy but do you know his amazing story?  Everything you do has an impact on you, ends up being an experience that makes you see the world from a different perspective. Watch this talk and see how one’s life can dramatically change. What do you think about Adam’s way of giving back to the military community? How do people handle transition from a soldier into a civilian? Do you know anybody who went through something like that?

            Sheryl Sandberg is listed first on Forbes’ list of world’s most powerful women. She started conquering technology industry by working at Google after that she’s gone to work for Facebook where she holds a position of Chief Operating Officer. She is also a first woman to be elected as a member of Facebook’s board of directors. Sandberg put on paper her journey to success and her will to lead in a book called “Lean in” where she gives many pointers on how to be apart of this game and how to get to the top.               The book is called “Lean in” and that is a piece of advice she would give to anyone no matter what. It simply means be involved, go out and get to know people and let’s be honest it’s good piece of advice it’s not that common for computer scientists to socialize. But it’s even more than that it’s not only for your own good you should lean in...