If you don't have enough time to spare for exercise, here are eight quick and easy fitness tips that you can include on your daily activity.
Being healthy is not just about hitting the gym daily and working out for several hours, or being able to fit well on those skinny jeans of yours. Regular exercising has a lot of benefits. These include lowering the risk of heart ailments, high blood pressure, colon cancer, and diabetes. It even helps in fighting depression. Furthermore, when you get to have enough exercise, you will have increased bone strength and an ever-increasing energy levels, and more importantly, you will gain a sense of well being.
Here are the tips:
1. Split it up
Instead of spending an hour at the gym, try splitting the amount of time. You may try doing 6 sessions of a 10-minute workout session all throughout the day. Try to incorporate some slow stretching and leg crunches in between and do that the moment you wake up early in the morning or during short breaks at work.
2. Walk yourself
Take a quick walk around your neighborhood right before you eat your breakfast or maybe after you have your dinner. Even those small increments of daily activity will help burn those excess body fats. Walking regularly will not only tone your hips and legs, but also keeps you energized all throughout the day.
3. Use a skipping rope and do a jumping jack
Get yourself a skipping rope and start jumping. By doing this, you will lose about 70 up to 110 calories in just a matter of 10 minutes.
4. Drink plenty of water
Dehydration hinders a person from doing aerobics. Therefore, working out meticulously will be of no help if you don't drink enough liquid. Moreover, water is known to help burn calories and digest fats in our body. Most importantly, it helps in the detoxification of our system.
5. Get Outdoors
During your free time, do activities that excite you. You may go to the park, walk your dog, plan a picnic with friends or do something more adventurous like hiking and mountain climbing. You may also try rock climbing for a more exhilarating adventure.
Bestseller6. Work it off
Do some few exercises at your work. Next time you find yourself picking up your phone for chitchat with a colleague, walk down towards her office instead. Or if you are craving for a cup of coffee, go walk yourself out of the office and buy the coffee yourself.
7. Be the delivery person
Ditch the habit of internet shopping now, and start walking at the actual store and buy the stuffs you want. Also, if you feel like eating a sandwich, instead of calling for a delivery, walk to the nearest cafe instead and buy the sandwich personally.
8. Make it family time
Encourage your spouse and kids to do some workout with you. Play Frisbee or any outdoor games that your kids will love. You may do it at the backyard or at the park. This is a great way of bonding with your family, and doing this regularly on a weekend will surely help in losing all those excess calories out.
