10 ways to get sneak in some exercise during your day
Need some tips on how to sneak in some exercise as you go about your day? Here you go.
- Searching for Remote: The couch-cushion lift and shuffle when you can’t find the TV remote. Bonus points for repeated squats when checking under the furniture.
- Elevator Impatience Tap: That foot-tapping while waiting for the elevator? Excellent for calf activation.
- Lost Glasses Search: The repeated motion of patting down every pocket, table, and surface in your vicinity. A full-body tactile workout!
- Phone Vibration Phantom Limb: Repeatedly checking your pocket thinking your phone vibrated, only to find no notifications. Consider it rapid hand-to-pocket repetitions.
- Microwave Dance: Shifting from foot to foot while waiting for your food to heat up. Side-to-side sways for those added hip movements.
- Bed Sheet Straightening Shimmy: That little jig you do when trying to adjust and straighten your bedsheet without actually getting off the bed.
- Coffee Cooling Blow: The repeated short breaths to cool your coffee or tea. Cardio for your lungs!
- ‘Is it Raining?’ Hand Extend: The universal motion of sticking a hand out the window to check for rain. Great for shoulder flexibility.
- Sock Slide: Those few meters of a glorious slide on hardwood floors in your socks. Perfect for balance and core stabilization.
- Fridge Double-Check: Opening the fridge, closing it without taking anything, and then reopening it a minute later in hopes of new food magically appearing. Excellent for arm repetitions and practicing hope.