Simple exercise is the key…eating healthy is only part of it. 123 Simple exercise is Knowledge, Diet and Exercise.
1- Knowledge and the simple understanding of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.
2-Diet and eating right for your body, metabolism and using food as fuel.
3-Exercise and simple exercise that you can incorporate into your busy day.
Now you have the 123 Simple Exercise law of reason…get the knowledge and create yourself a healthy lifestyle that is right for you!
Put some focus on those arms for the next month or so…as the weather warms up our shirts reveal more of the arm. Lets work on getting them tone and doing simple strength exercise for the arms!
Tricep dips and push ups are a great and simple strength exercise. Add them to your day and do a few sets of each.
Adding simple exercise to your daily routine makes a difference. Keep adding some of these basic exercises and see changes.
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If waking up is not hard enough…is your kind of simple exercise hitting that snooze button? Get out of bed and do multiple sets of jumping jacks before you get your day going. Elevate your heart rate and it will not only get your metabolism moving you will have more energy starting your day.
Don’t forget the most important meal is breakfast. I encourage eating 6 small meals a day and adding protein to all of them but don’t skip breakfast. This gets you burning calories and gives your body the energy it needs to head into your day. Simple cardio exercise and simple exercise eating first thing are a great way to start your day!
When I talk to people about exercise one of the first things they tell me is how many times they step on a scale or how much weight they have lost. Or if you ever watch the reality show “The Biggest Loser,” you would also know that the weigh-in is the main focus at the end of the show.
I have also seen people go so extreme about weighing themselves and it becomes their whole focus. I tell you this because, I don’t weigh myself. I know approximately how much I weigh but the last time I weighed myself was two years ago, 6 months after my son was born and I wanted to know how bad my weight gain was after the pregnancy.
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People, I tell you it is not bad to weigh yourself, it does help keep you accountable with a tangible number. I do however hear people who just started a “diet” report after two days, I weight this and after one week, I weighed this and they hit a day where the scale shows a gain or no loss. What happens? They mentally feel doomed, their expectations have been fed and the numbers show they are loosing weight. They worked out extra hard this week and they gained weight, they fall into immediate frustration and some give up and go back to older comforting habits.
What I am trying to encourage with this is, just keep on doing simple exercise, simple eating and make the changes. Don’t go to extremes on the number you see on your scale. There are so many factors that give you your weight, focus on how you feel and how your clothes fit.
You see, I was a far cry from fitting in my clothes two years ago when I weighed myself. Today, I fit into ALL the clothes I did and just by watching my progress get into the smaller sizes was a feeling of exhilaration. Don’t go to extremes on weighing yourself, if you do once a week at the most and then focus on getting simple exercise.
Simple exercise to keep it clean. Some people would think, clean eating? No, that is a term that fitness people use for eating healthy but that is not what I am talking about.
Keep it clean is about just that, clean your house and use it as exercise. The list of items to clean can get long. A few things that you do that you can also look at as simple at home exercise.
Laundry…we all have it, right? Add some exercise while folding laundry, putting your laundry away or just carrying the laundry basket. Add some core exercise, some arm exercise and don’t sit down. It may be easy to put the laundry in a basket and fold it while you watch your favorite show. Stand up, work your legs, your core and your arms. I have stairs, so carrying that laundry basket up and down the stairs can help burn some calories.
Mop the floor with a towel and your legs. I take an old towel, wet it and add my favorite floor cleaner. Put the towel down flat on the surface you want to clean, stand on the towel and move your legs back and forth, in and out. Almost like you are skating. It is amazing how clean you can get your floor but it will work your legs and your heart rate.
Adding some simple at home exercise to your house cleaning is simple!