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Recently, I've been attempting to incorporate Japanese into my daily life more
frequently. As I went through my morning exercises, I realized that I wasn't
sure if simply counting 一,二,三... was correct, or if there was a specific
counter for exercise repetitions (one pushup, two pushups, etc.). In looking
around, the closest I've been able to find have been 度,回, and of course, つ.
Does anyone know which is correct?
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Japanese counter for exercise repetitions
If you are talking about how to count when during the exercise, I would that
saying

> 一｛いち｝、二｛に｝、三｛さん｝...

Is perfectly okay. I also found some evidence of [people counting in
english](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0o_vExY1_Y). If you to say something
along the lines of "Today I did ten pushups", then I would use 回{かい} that will
indicate the number of repetitions of a given exercise. Example
[here](http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2134682714158177601). I would not use 度｛ど｝
in this context, because it has a meaning of occurrence rather than
repetition.

Finally, if you want to count exercises as in "In my routine, the first
exercise is pushups, the second is squats..." I would use

> 一｛ひと｝つ目｛め｝、二｛ふた｝つ目｛め｝

Where 目 is used to change the counter to an ordinal.
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