Day 1801 - Working Out

Is your life a work out?

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I don't know about you, but I'm often feeling very guilty about my lack of exercise.  I feel as though I never have time to work out and I worry about my Deep Fried health and fitness. Then it occurred to me, that perhaps I am working out sufficiently without actually "working out".  Perhaps life is already a work out?  Let's see ...




Things we do in our everyday lives that could be classed as a 'living workout':

• Walking the dog (walk, walk, walk)
• Gardening* (dig, pull, throw)
• Vacuuming (walk, bend, pull)
• Hanging out the washing (reach high, reach low, reach high, reach low)
• Scrubbing the shower (bend, squat, scrub, wax on, wax off)
• Running errands (walk, walk, walk)
• Grocery shopping (walk, reach, push, walk, reach, push, walk, reach, push)
• Having fun at the park with the kids (push the swing, pull it back)
• Feeding the swans by the lake (HONK! Runnnnn ....)

It also occurred to me that perhaps there are things I am doing that go over and above the normal, like:

• Coaching cheerleader training (stretching, dancing, lifting kids in stunts)
• My Cheer Chick Charlie letterbox drops (walk, walk, walk, walk)
• The fact that my house has a shitload of stairs and I run up and down them all day long to the laundry and to the "store room" to get my Cheer Chick Charlie merchandise. (run up, run down, run up, run down)

So now when I push the treadmill to the bottom of my priority list, or forget that I am supposed to be doing sit-ups in the ad breaks of my favourite TV show, I won't worry so much.   Sometimes life is already a work out.

What ways do you burn calories without even trying?

Are we perhaps doing something right just by living our busy lives? 

Or am I kidding myself? 

 * That list up there is a very loose "we" list ... "we" as in household owners ... Gardening is not something I actually do at all. Which is a shame, because I'm sure it provides a pretty decent "workout".