Form

How it is used

Used constantly by trainers and lifters: "Watch your form", "Your form breaks down on the last reps." In a second sense, form means recent performance: a team in good form is winning regularly.

Example sentences

1. Drop the weight a little; your form is getting sloppy.

2. The team is in great form, with six wins in a row.

Common collocations

• good form
• proper form
• form check
• in good form
• lose form

Related terms

• repShort for repetition: one complete performance of an exercise, such as lifting and lowering a weight once or doing one push-up.
• squatAn exercise in which you bend your knees and hips to lower your body as if sitting down, then stand up again; done with body weight or a load.
• deadliftA lift in which you pick up a loaded barbell from the floor until you are standing upright, mainly working the back, glutes and hamstrings.
• personal trainerA fitness professional who designs exercise programmes for individual clients and supervises their sessions one to one.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• form · Software Engineering
• form · Web Development
• form · Office & Administration

More terms: Exercises & Technique

• push-up
• stretch
• bench press
• plank
• lunge
• pull-up