Thursday Thirteen
Keen on getting fit but dreading costly gym memberships, exercising in front of others, and sweating in front of all the buff gym goers? The gym, while useful, isn’t an absolute necessity to losing weight.
1. Walking. You hear it a lot, but it’s one of the cheapest (free!) alternatives out there
2. Buy hand weights. Who says you have to go to the gym for weights? I found one set of hand weights for a little under ten dollars.
3. Not keen on spending any sort of money? Use bottles of laundry soap, water bottles, or other things for your weights.
4. Jump rope. You can buy a jump rope (or make one) for very little money and use that or use it to step up your walking routine.
5. Buy a stability ball. By sitting on a stability ball instead of a chair, not only are you helping your posture but also exercising.
6. Check out my slowly growing list of exercises.
7. Stretch. Stretching is great for flexibility and getting your muscles in use.
8. Play with your kids. If you’re a mum or dad, take the kids outside for a while and run around a bit.
9. Sexercise. Bring on the foreplay – sex can be great exercise.
10. Do little things like walk when you can, take the stairs instead of the ele/escalator.
11. Turn up the radio and dance. Dancing is fantastic exercise.
12. Swimming is also great exercise – especially if you have problem joints.
13. Buy a home exercise DVD. This can get a bit spendy, but not as expensive as a gym membership and you don’t have to go anywhere to get a good workout. (And no sometimes-embarrassing group workouts to worry about.)
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April 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Those are great ideas. i have my own little set of handweights that cost me like $5 I think and my exercise ball is my favorite.
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April 11th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Thanks.
I like my handweights as well. They were so cheap and work nicely.
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