How to Maximize Your Fitness Results
by Craig LePage
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What I am about to reveal to you can make a drastic change in the out
come of your fitness results. Many of us are willing to dedicate a decent
number of hours each and every week to our workout plan. But quite often
we do not always see the results we had hoped for.
Looking at the big
picture, the average fitness enthusiast only has about 3 to 6 hour per
week to dedicate to their workouts. In a 168 hour week 3 to 6 hours is not
really a large number of hours. We can drastically increase the number of
hour we are exercising by practicing what is called multitasking. In the
fitness industry combining exercise with your daily tasks is referred to
as Accidental Exercise.
This type of exercise is great for those people who are very limited
with their time. How many times have you waited for an elevator when you
could have taken the stairs, or drove around a parking lot searching for
the closest spot to the door so you would not have to walk very far? I
think you get the point. Implementing more accidental exercise into your
daily routine can make drastic changes in your fitness results.
Here are some other accidental exercise ideas that you can implement
into your day:
- Shovel snow
- Sweep the driveway
- Mow the lawn – Push Mower
- Rake leaves
- Talk the long way – walking
- Take the stairs
- Park your car far from the door
- Walk to don’t drive
- Stand don’t sit
- Work in your garden
- Walk the dog
- Chop & stack wood
- Play an active sport
(Basketball, Tennis etc.)
The accidental exercises listed above will help you burn a tremendous
amount of additional calories throughout the course of a day. In this day
and age technology is a major burden on our ability to burn additional
calories through accidental exercise. If you were to think back when we
didn’t have garage door openers, TV remote controls, microwave ovens and
leaf blowers, we had do perform all of these activities manually. These
accidental exercise activities that were a part of everyone’s daily lives
helped us burn hundreds of extra calories each day.
Not only is accidental exercising a great way to help reduce body fat
but in many cases it will improve areas such as muscle strength (including
heart strength), lung strength, joint mobility, blood flow, injury
prevention, brain function and self esteem.
In conclusion we now know that we can make some small changes in our
daily routines that can result in some big changes in our health. It is
recommended that everyone involve themselves in some type of exercise
program coupled with accidental exercise activities. Accidental exercise
is most beneficial when performed in addition to a planned weekly exercise
program
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Craig is a well-known Fitness Pro in the Charlotte, NC area with over
12 years experience. Craig has written for Charlotte, NC area Newspapers,
authored his own fitness & nutrition program and is a frequent guest
on a Charlotte area radio show that focus’ on health and wellness. He has
co-authoring a golf specific exercise book (Play Better, Longer – Golf)
and is working on his third book.
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