Get Fit While Watching the Tube

Here's one way to combine one of your favorite past times, with one of the goals that you keep stating (but never seem to get around to)...that's it, er, to exercise more, get fit, lose weight, etc.

This novel idea, from Whole Living Magazine (I'd heard similar before) is to move during commercial breaks. So for each commercial break, say, during one or two of your favorite shows....do 10 reps each of squats, lunges and bicycle crunches (for the abs). According to Whole Living, they figure you will have, in one, 1 hour show, 15-20 minutes of workout time clocked in by the end of your show :)

I really like this idea and am going to try incorporating this into my evening routine. I would also add some additional exercises....maybe having some exercise tubing and light hand weights to do some upper body work....bicep curls, tricep kick-backs, shoulder work and also add the plank exercise (hold for 10-20 seconds or more), some pilates moves, and maybe a downward dog or two to round everything out. Another option I've also used is to do some cardio (ski machine, step aerobics, etc.) while watching a favorite tv show.

So, now, sadly, you do not have any relevant excuses anymore not to fit some exercise into your day :-)

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