Japanese listening diary · Day 253

One Hour Changed My Whole Body

1時間で体が変わるピラティス
September 16, 2026
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Today’s story きょうの あらすじ

I went to a machine Pilates lesson for the first time in three weeks. I usually take a lesson once every two weeks, but this time, partly because of a long business trip, a whole three weeks went by. I had been feeling myself that my body's balance was off lately, and when I went to the lesson today, that was exactly the case. I was given training to open up my chest and adjust the position of my pelvis, and I could clearly see that my body's balance was completely different before and after the lesson. To think my body could change this much in just a one-hour lesson; it really is a packed hour. On my way home from the lesson, I did some shopping, and that alone took an hour. I realized again that even for the same one hour, an hour invested in my own body and an hour spent wandering around looking for something good have completely different meanings.

From the diary にっきから

Excerpt
No. 253Tokyo · morning
日本語 — Japanese
ひらがな — Hiragana
さんしゅうかんぶりに、ましーんぴらてぃすのれっすんにいってきました。いつもは、にしゅうかんにいちどうけていますが、こんかいはちょうきしゅっちょうもあって、さんしゅうかんもあいてしまいました。じぶんでも、さいきん、からだのばらんすがくずれているなと、おもっていたんですが、きょうれっすんにいってみたら、まさしくそのとおりでした。
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Vocabulary ことば

週間しゅうかんweek
崩れるくずれるto be thrown off; to fall out of (balance)
調整するちょうせいするto adjust
濃いこいintense; packed (time)
投資するとうしするto invest

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