Fitness @ home
Call me crazy, but let’s collect a few ideas for keeping fit. No armchair, but STEPS!
Remember, - people used to keep fit by doing their daily chores. No gyms were needed or even existed!
All the below exercises can be accompanied by your favourite music. Make it FUN! Always think of the personal benefit: You’ll be handsome, beautiful, muscly, youthing, happy, radiant, and dopamine-pumped to the eyeballs.
Exercise 1-
Get out the vacuum, warm up by swinging it around a bit, then lift with the right arm 10 times, followed by the left arm. Engage your core muscles, and —- just kidding.
Just doing the vacuuming will however be good for you. Make sure to swap between right and left arm. Get under the furniture, move furniture, have the music pumping, - and take a rest, once half the job is done.
Quick drink and off you go again.
Exercise 2-
Mopping. Swing that thing! Remember Tom Cruise in that movie? Do the booty action, while nobody is watching. For extra action, you might have to do some serious scrubbing of those evil spots that think they can resist your superior will-power!
Exercise 3-
Heavy duty, advanced grade action: Put on the rubber gloves and get out the non-toxic cleaner, the scrubber and bucket. We are talking BATHROOM! A full frontal elbow grease attack is what’s needed. - Do you have what it takes?
Turn the music up, the acoustics in the bathroom is fabulous. I suggest to begin with the most challenging bit, perhaps the shower? While the toilet soaks, put some srubbing action to the most grubby part of the room, and take it from there.
Finish by polishing the mirror, which is very important Feng Shui: Wax on, wax off! Sprinkle your favourite essential oil on the fresh hand towel, and you are done! (Some people even fold the toilet paper or write a message for the next visitor on it)
Exercise 4-
Re-organising a wardrobe. To warm up, get the little stepping stool and do 29 step-ups with each leg. Then, take the stool and swing it high, from left shoulder height to right shoulder height.
Then, push it away from your chest, 20 times. Count out loud.
Final warm-up: 10 lifts above the head. -Watch the ceiling!
After having watched the ceiling for a short time, :-) , sit on the stool and check out your adversary: The wardrobe. Count down from 10. Get up and show the wardrobe what you are made of!
Everything comes out. No mercy. Put in on the bed, like Marie Kondo on Netflix. While sending a few loads through the washing machine and hanging the washing (bend and stretch, bend and stretch), clean the wardrobe and slowly move things back that you really need and want. Ask yourself: Does this shirt/dress/etc. make my heart sing?
Make a big, triumphant heap to donate to St Vinnies. (Extension activity: Walk it to them, backpack by backpack.)
Stop any time, to continue later in the day. This is a marathon run!
REWARDS
A really important ingredient of home exercise is the short-term reward. Be ruthless in bribing yourself at the end. Thoroughly enjoy putting up your feet and downing that chocolate!
Please feel free to share any exercise ideas of your own, so we can all stay fit during lockdown… and after!
