Although many peoples’ daily lives are incredibly busy, making time to exercise and squeeze physical activity into your life, is essential to a healthy lifestyle. It’s easier than you think!
Here are some easy tips to incorporate fitness into your busy lifestyle:
- Take the stairs
- When entering or leaving somewhere and your choice is the elevator or the stairs; Chose stairs!
- If you have stairs at home, go to the first stair and use it similar to a step
- It is a great way to squeeze in some cardio
- Hygiene Heel Raises
- While you’re brushing your teeth in the morning, do some heel raises.
- Top Teeth Brushing: Lift your heels up and down in parallel
- Bottom Teeth Brushing: Lift your heels up and down in a small “V”
- While riding the subway, hold onto a pole and life your heels up and down in parallel
- Great for the calves!
- While you’re brushing your teeth in the morning, do some heel raises.
- Thigh Toning Telephone Call
- While you’re on an important phone call, work off those love handles, by lifting 1 leg up to a 45 degree angle. Then while standing on the other leg, slowly pulse the other leg higher
- Abs Squeeze
- You can work your core abdominal muscles anywhere, simply by engaging them!
- Standing tall, with both feet firmly on the ground, scoop your navel in toward your spine and squeeze/engage your abdominal muscles.
- This will improve posture and abdominal strength
- You can work your core abdominal muscles anywhere, simply by engaging them!
-By Gillian Rinaldo, Senior Fitness Assistant, Certified Group Fitness and Pilates Instructor