Hello dearies. For this entry I’m going tell you how to stay fit without having to exercise. Because let’s get real. Not many of us can afford going to the gym. What more with packed schelude, spending time with your loved ones, catching up with your favourite tv show marathon... when is the suitable time to hit the gym? So how can we stay fit and healthy without having to exercise twice a week?
Well, you can. Exercise is not the only way for you to get fit and healthy. Sure, exercise helps you boost your energy, makes you sweat and burn all the calories. But other activities does that too and some of it are not even workout.
These are some of the activities that doesn’t involve intense workout :
Everytime you want to go for grocery, taking fresh air at the park, walk instead of using car. Even if it’s a 15 minutes walk, every steps count. When you’re having lunch or going to a meeting, have a walk. Steve Jobs was known for doing this.
One useful tip :
When you’re feeling stress, refrain yourself from eating. Admit it, we all take a trip to
the fridge or fast food restaurant whenever we’re feeling stress. Instead of eating our
out, why not take a short walk around your neighbourhood?
Why? Because eating when you’re stressed is a bad habit. When we’re stressed we
eat snacks, sweets, and take carbonated drinks. That is not healthy. Plus, when we’re
stressed, we’re not actually hungry. We eat just to take our mind off things that
stressed us out.
So instead of eating, take a stroller. Just think of how many pounds you can lose
instead of adding it up!
Here’s an alternative for those who hates doing exercise. Dancing! Dancing comes with a lot of type. For those that wish for a relaxing but strengthening dance, ballet is your answer. For those that really want to shake that calories, hip hop dance will make you sweat in no time. Zumba, flamenco, belly dancing – you will be suprised at what these can do to you!
Trust me, playing with children definitely gives you workout. Chasing them around the house, swinging the swing for them, and playing police with them will tire you out. Remember when you were kids? Doesn’t playing around makes you exhausted easily?
Even if you don’t have children, you can always relieve back your childhood memories by playing your favourite childhood games. Mine is tag games and that definitely makes me run out of breath.
When you’re at workplace, did you get a back pain from sitting for too long? Or for having a back posture? When you try to walk straighter and try to straighten your back, it won’t work. You keep walking with your back hunched and the back pain came again along with sore muscles. How do you make it go away?
Having a good posture can help you. There are a lot of articles in the internet on fixing your posture and the do and don’t.
While watching tv, don’t just stay on a fixed position. Strech around. Stretching will give you a jolt of energy and help straighten your back.
Have you ever dream about having been able to do an awesome kung fu movement
like one of those martial art movies? Well, if you have go for it! Learn martial arts. It’s
good for your health and it gives you advantages. There are many types of martial arts
out there. What you need to do is find the one that suits your soul. Think of all those
awesome movement from the action movies that you can learn.
If you have been avoiding doing housework chores, I want you to think again. Sweeping the floors of your bedroom for 7 minutes is enough to make you sweat. Imagine what cleaning the whole house can do for you. From mopping the floor, doing the laundry, to changing your bed sheet, it will keep you on your feet!
Let’s say you sweep your floor once every 2 days and you mop your floor every weekend. An average person should burn 4 calories for easy cleaning. If you spend 10 minutes cleaning your floor, you just burn 40 calories! Add additional 80 calories for mopping your floor on the weekend. In a week, you have burn total of 120 calories!
If you’ve been doing it for a year, you have just burn 5760 calories. Wow. Just by doing housework.
And guess what? Doing house chores also help strengthen your muscles!
When I say play video games, I mean video games that makes you move a lot. Not the one that makes you sit in front of the screen, not moving at all. For example, Just Dance. It’s fun, and at the same time you move your body to bust a move! Or you can get a Kinect. As you play badminton, balancing your body on motorboat or kicking the villain, you are getting a workout without actually doing a workout.
A stand table can help you reducing the risk of getting back pain from having to sit on a chair slouching too much.
Personally, I prefer the regular desk. That is because I can barely stand still for 5
minutes. My legs got tired easily. I’m not the type that can stand still while surfing the
internet. I need to move around. So I switch. When I got tired of Standing, I will sit.
When I think I have sit for too long, I will stand, move around or lay down. Do not
stay on the same position for too long.
That is me. If you are the type that don’t mind standing then standing desk is perfect
for you.
You probably heard this lots of time. Use the stairs instead of the elevator. But you probably didn’t know why it is widely encourage. Here are the reasons why :
1. Stair climbing can have a significant and positive impact on your health over time.
2. Stair climbing reduces risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, obesity and type 2 diabetes.
3. It helps improves your cardiovascular fitness and stronger musculoskeletal system.
4. You can improves your muscle tone, tighten bones and tone your thighs.
5. Believe it, stair climbing helps you sleeps well and fight stress!
6. It promotes weight loss and increases good cholesterol.
Did you need more reasons to use the stair?
So, there you go, ways to stay fit without having to exercise! I hope you guys can benefited from this! Until then!
