1. Try taking a dancing class. Dancing is a fun way to burn off extra calories. Of course, ballroom and other slow dances won’t help you burn off anything, but fast-paced dancing can be as good as other cardio exercises.
2. As a stretch, lean against a wall with your hands flattened against the wall with your face very close to the wall. Then, use your hands to push your body away from the wall. Do this two or three times each time.
3. If possible, go to a pool and swim. Swimming is a great exercise, as it exercise your entire body – arms, legs, core, everything. The water also helps put less stress on your body as you exercise too, and nothing is more refreshing than a cool swim in a pool.
4. Try pick up a sport, such as soccer or basketball. Sports, or even games with lots of physical activity, are a great way to lose weight while having fun at the same time. It is much more enjoyable to play a game with friends than to simply run on a treadmill alone. Also, if you enjoy a sport, you will play it often and make some friends to play with, which will make losing weight even easier.
It is something that you can look forward to doing and it actually relieves stress while losing weight. In fact, the more you enjoy playing, the less it will feel like a weight loss program, and you’ll make some new friends while you’re at it.
5. Any work out should start with a 5 to 10 minute warm up and should end with a 5 to ten minute cool down session. Whatever physical exercise you are involved in, you must remember to warm up before the exercise really starts. Do not just plunge into the water and start thrashing about, to put it figuratively. Your body needs to reach a certain level of readiness before it can actually start responding to exercise. And this readiness is achieved by the warming up process.
6. Don’t carry your cell phone around with you. Rather, leave in a spot where you can hear it ring, so that when it does, you will have to get up and walk to pick it up. You need a change from the lifestyles of today, where everything is at our fingertips, so that we don’t even need to get up. This follows Darwin’s theory about use and disuse, which simply says that any part of our body that is used constantly will develop and any part that is unused will slowly become weaker and eventually disappear.
According to this theory, a certain part of the body that is put to constant use develops a lot and a certain part of the body that has no use at all becomes smaller and smaller and gradually ceases to exist. Certain examples that he quoted were the long neck of the giraffe, which appeared to become longer and longer when the giraffe stretched higher and higher to reach the leaves at the treetops. He quoted the example of the absence of a tail in human beings to illustrate the example of the theory of disuse.
Now if Darwin’s theory were to prove true, as the years go by man is likely to end up with just a huge head, a few fingers and maybe some other parts of the body that are also put to use. That is why I made it a point to say that you have to drive yourself to move about. A cell phone may be convenient, but the same thing can turn out to simplify life just a little too bit. There are other arguments against the use of cell phones but that is beside our topic. What I would suggest is that at home or in your office, leave the cell phone lying about so that you can hear it ring, but can’;t just reach into your pocket and answer it. See to it that you have to actually stand up and walk a few steps before you can pick it up.
7. While traveling in an elevator instead of just standing there idly, try doing lifting yourself onto your toes and back down, or flexing your buttock muscles. Even if you aren’t alone, there are plenty of muscles that we can flex without having other people notice. Even if they do, it’s a decent area of the body anyway, so they probably won’t care. Don’t worry about being a health freak, as being healthy is better than being fat.
8. Undress and stare at yourself in front of your mirror. If what you see displeases you, then you have all the more reason to work out. Try tucking in the extra fat in all those wide areas, this will give you an idea of which part you need to be working on.
Turn to your side and look at your side profile. This is great way to check how your mid-section is doing – whether it sticks out, and whether it’s going away or not.
Try sucking in your stomach and look if it has decreased in size. If it has, there is hope: you can work to keep it that way and eventually shed inches off of it. Personally, I recommend this mirror over a scale – a few pounds won’t shock you, but looking at flabby areas will help motivate you to burn it off.
9. If you have a banister rail or a balustrade, sit on it and pump your legs as if you are riding a bicycle. This may seem like another crazy way to lose weight, but the emphasis here is to take every opportunity to exercise and burn off calories. Be careful you don’t fall off while doing these exercises, though.
10. If you often slouch while sitting, try to maintain a habit of sitting up straight. Slouching is a detrimental habit both for your posture and back, but is also can lead to flabby figure. Sitting up helps you avoid back problems, as well as avoiding lazy slouching to give you focus on losing weight.
11. Here’s a good tip. It is very common for people to pack on weight in the mid-section, But here is a great way to reduce the fat around the waist line (this doesn’t work as well for post-pregnancy mid-sections).
Breathe in air will all you strength and tuck your tummy in by flexing your mid-section muscles. Hold it in this position for a few seconds and then let your breath out, but don’t loosen your muscles. Doing this many times a day (50 to 60) will help you shed fat off of your midsection and tone it. In fact, simply do this exercise whenever you think of it. If you feel you stomach muscles tightening, then you are doing the right thing. If you can keep this exercise up consistently over 20 days, you will shed at least an inch off your waist.
Below I have included a table of the various exercises and the number of calories that can be burnt with each exercise. Choose what you can do best and choose something that you will enjoy doing on the long run as well. The choice of the exercise is completely left to you but try to do whatever you wish to do for at least twenty minutes. It is only after you do the exercise for twenty minutes that the actual calorie burning sets in.
Aerobics: 200-250 calories; Bicycling, Stationary: 250-300 calories; Bicycling, Actual: 300-400 calories; Running, 5-6 mph: 300-350 calories; Stair climber: 200-250 calories; Swimming laps: 350 calories; Walking briskly: 150-180 calories
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