Help for translating a term needed

[Ironman77]

Hi,

I am running a german language fitness related website and I am currently translating a salescopy for one product.

The title translated would be something like:
"The lazy man's way to a dreambody"

The problem is - I think dreambody soubds very strange in english.

In german it's the shortform for "body of your dreams" or "body to die for".

Does anybody have any suggestion for a good term in english?

All the best,
Oliver

[ghyphena]

Hi Oliver,

I'm not going to make a sweeping generalisation such as "German is a silly language", but I will point out its tendency to turn a few words into onebiglongword.

"The lazy man's way to the body of your dreams" is, I think, an accurate enough translation. Copy-wise, it may not be the best phrase to use in the headline... but I have to say - even though this will probably go against popular opinion - I think it might actually work well because the nominalised structure gets every reader to picture in their mind their own "dreambody", as it were.

I don't think there's any direct equivalent in English. There are, of course, different routes you could go down... the traditional hard, rippling abs route... the Greek god route... the confidence-exuding route... but all these images aren't direct translations.

[Ironman77]

Hi Gil,

thank you for your quick answer.

With:
"I think it might actually work well because the nominalised structure gets every reader to picture in their mind their own "dreambody", as it were."

you are on the right way. I first didn't like the word dreambody because it sounded to cheesy for me. But in a split test it rocked against any other term that was more concrete like "ripped" and so on.

All the best,
Oliver

[Ironman77]

Originally Posted by BizzyUK

"Get the body of your dreams in a darting nanosecond whilst eating a banana split and intermittently napping with x".

Okay - I'll try this

Thank you for your explanation - I've used "body of your dreams".