How to Squeeze Exercise into your Day

How to Squeeze Exercise into your Day

from http://www.healthybydesignprogram.com/index.php/HealthyByDesignBlog/2012-06-20

My strategy has been to take exercise out of the box ( or gym) and figure out how to make it work for your lifestyle.

Willpower is sure to fade; schedules will always get over-crowded if you let it and there will never be the perfect time to exercise so just make up your mind that you are going to squeeze it in no matter what.

It must work for your life. Once you decided not it is not optional then you will begin to seek out ways to make it fit into your schedule.

Here are some ways to squeeze exercise into your daily routine.

1. While talking on the phone, stand up instead of sitting, balance on one leg, go for a walk, do lunges, squats or stretches.
2. Spice up your bathroom routine -- while brushing your teeth, balance on one leg, do isometric abdominal exercises by sucking your abs in towards your spine, stretch or do wall squats
3. Not a fan of housework? Look at it as an opportunity to improve your health. Turn vacuuming into lunges; window cleaning into an arm workout and imagine the possibilities you can create with a broom!!!
4. Instead of trying to carry all of your groceries, files or garbage in one trip, take some extra time and make a few trips.
5. Who says meetings always have to be in a stuffy boardroom? Book a walking meeting and kill two birds with one stone.
6. Use commercial breaks during your favorite TV program to do push ups or abdominal exercises. Challenge yourself to improve each week.
7. Your chair is the perfect height for tricep dips ( see the picture above) -- make it part of your daily routine to do 10 dips before dinner; this will tone and strengthen your triceps.