5 Minute Office Workout

This guy has some great tips and sound advice. I love that he uses facts and logic to help people stay in shape.
5 Minute Office Workout

Pilates

I love pilates. I did it when I was pregnant. Sometimes my back would pop back into place while I was doing it. Ana Caban, whose dvd I use (Beginning Mat Workout) got into it because her back was severely injured. If you want to get a great body and relax your back all at once, this is a great program. The dvd has a 25 minute basic workout and a 12 minute power workout, so it is very easy to fit into my schedule. Sometimes the kids like to climb all over me while I do it. For the most part I just let them and call it resistance training, and meanwhile they have fun.

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Walking

"Pioneer children sang as they walked." and so did the women, and the men, and the elderly, and when they circled their wagons at night they played music and danced because God wanted them to.

I think walking is a great way to be able to test your endurance. I tried this yesterday and I think I did pretty well. Other than a few small blisters (I walked all over town for two hours), I handled it and do not feel too shabby today. I didn't dance last night, but overall I think I got a pretty good workout.

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Take it slow

Doing exercises in slow motion works a different kind of muscle and yields faster results. So rather than pumping through your workout as fast as you can, slow down those reps and feel the burn.

Powerful Push-ups for girls

Ok, this really is not a mystery, at least for me: any exercise that is difficult and does not damage your body is great for you. The only time in my life I was overweight was at Snow College. I was already dancing 2 hours a day - lazily, due to my disillusionment with the drill team - no excuses. I put on a crushed velvet outfit for a performance, looked in the mirror and thought "I look pregnant." I am not unnecessarily harsh on myself, I really did look a month or two along. Well enough of that. I started doing 50 push-ups every night. A month or so later I was back in dancer shape. End of story.

Ok, we can't all do 50 push-ups. Yet. I made myself. Slow, even if it took 10 minutes, I got through it. I allowed myself to push up to an upside down V, but I made the rule that my weight must be somewhat evenly distributed between my hands and feet at all times.

If you do this and you hold your body right, it is a very intense total body workout that is relatively short. It usually puts me in the mood to exercise, which may be why it worked for me down at Snow. But whatever else I did, I kept doing 50 push-ups every night for 4-5 years. Somewhere I slacked off and I am working my way back up. I don't do this every night, as I have learned taking a few nights off allows muscles to heal and build up. I am up to 30 push-ups. How many can you do?

Thunder in my Thighs

Keep this on your mind, because thinking about exercise a lot will lead to doing exercise. Here is one simple exercise that you can fit in throughout your day because it is tough, but you control how tough it is. Sit (without the support of a chair) against a wall and, so you are not using your back to hold your body up, do reverse crunches. Lean forward to almost 45 degrees and then press back until your back almost touches the wall. This will take less than a minute unless you are in incredible shape. Figure out how many times you want to do it in a day, keep a chart, and eventually you may work up to even a minute. The key is to do it on a regular basis.

Have contests with others to see who can do this for longer. If your kids are old enough, this could build a fun memory. It could even be a hoot with other peoples' kids, so you teachers, no excuses. It just takes a minute and could wake everybody up. Besides, the mind works better when it has fresh oxygen.

There. I just did twelve sitting reverse crunches. How many did you do?