When it comes to exercise, you may not get excited at the prospect of sweating it out at the gym. Fortunately, there are many ways to stay active everyday and meet the surgeon general’s recommendation for burning 150 calories a day through physical activity.
1. GO BACK TO THE OLD WAYS
Take an opportunity to enjoy routine tasks - use a hand mower instead of a gas mower or wash the care yourself. Also, do housework yourself instead of hiring it out; just spending 2 ½ hours on housework can burn 500 calories.
This one can’t do the mowing with a hand mower it will take forever to finish it. We have a gas mower that hubby will just ride on it. On the other hand, I can do the housework without further ado (bow). Although, can’t do it everyday hmmm I have other things to do also like nap or do web-surfing hehe.
2. EXERCISE YOUR GREEN THUMB
Cleaning up around the yard is a great way to burn some extra calories. Gardening for a half hour adds up to 150 calories, and raking leaves for an hour burns 210 calories.
I do a lot of gardening specially in my vegetable garden everyday. I like to start it in the morning when it is not too hot yet and the breeze is a bit fresh and cold. Weeding is a good thing to do when I am in the garden but haven’t done raking the yard. Hmmm I don’t know why I didn’t do it. But if it takes 150 calories just to rake I think I am going to do it hahaha.
3. BE A SPORT ABOUT IT
You don’t have to be a sports fanatic to benefit from outdoor physical activities. Biking around the neighborhood for 90 minutes burns 500 calories, playing tennis for an hour can burn 380 calories and golfing (while carrying your own clubs) for an hour burn 350 burns.
Oh okay I am out with this one. I don’t bike, play tennis nor do golfing. Too drastic for my knee (alibi).
4. TALK WITH THE ANIMALS
You’re not the only one who wants to get out and enjoy the nice weather. The animals are stirring at the Detroit Zoo, one of the nation’s oldest and most stately zoos. It’s a lot of fun, and offers excellent opportunities for exercise - a leisurely walk around the zoo for 90 minutes can burn up to 500 calories.
Haven’t been to the Detroit Zoo but I love to visit there one day and meet my ancestry. Bwehehehe! Joke lang po!
5. WALK IT OFF
With its staying lighter longer, try scheduling a 30 minutes walk after dinner with friends or neighbors. It’s a great way to decompress from the day, connect with friends and get some exercise in your day. Make it a family affair and ask the kids to come along -it’s an easy way to catch up with what’s going on in their days while encouraging them to be more active.
Well I walked around the property and cut some branches while walking around. Sometimes it takes me hours to roam around but it is not an every day affair. Or else all our trees here were all bald from nipping.
6. TACKLE YOUR RAINY DAY PROJECTS
If the weather’s not cooperating, get your fitness indoors. Home improvement tasks can burn calories too - an hour of indoor painting can burn calories.
What I am so proud of myself is that I paint our bathroom wall. It takes time though but I do like it specially when after painting you see your work well done. Clap3x!
7. MAKE IT A FAMILY AFFAIR
Experts agree that the best way to get your children involved in fitness and exercise is to make it a regular part of your family life. Establish rituals that involve exercise, such as hiking or walking nature trails at your local park on the weekends. Try a new physical activity each month, such as in-line skating, shooting hoops or bicycling. It’s so much fun for the kids that they won’t even notice they’re exercising.
I love hiking or walking but inside the mall hehe! Oh well it is good to do walking in the mall though because for me it is safer there than doing it in a nature trail. Specially that my hubby is not enthusiastic about walking. (Well he has his own kind of exercising by helping others.) So I just do my walking inside the mall better huh??!!
8. BECOME A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY
Find opportunities to meet new people with social activities - join a walking club, take tennis or golf lessons, or sign up for yoga, tai chi or water aerobics through your local community center. Even dancing fast for 30 minutes can burn 150 calories.
All those thing enumerated above the only thing that I do is dancing. Yup, after I woke up say my morning prayers, do the shower I turn on my cd and dance my heart out. If I don’t do that my day is a bit lazy. So every morning I wiggle , jiggle and waggle pawala sa bil2x hehe.
9. WORK IT OUT AT WORK
Look for opportunities to get in physical activity right at your workplace. Whether its parking in the farthest spot in the parking lot, taking the stairs instead of the elevator or taking a 10-minute walking break with your lunch, you can burn calories throughout the day, even in the office.
Hmmm I did that last year.
10. PLAN IT
Set reasonable expectations and plan how you’re going to fit a few more minutes of activity in throughout your day.
Absolutely right, it is our own conviction how to manage our everyday life. If we set out mind to have a sedentary life then so be it. If we set our mind to do things one day at a time we somehow lose some of those unwanted calories. Health wise? Just move!!!
Source:Beaumont hospital magazine
Kim
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