Get Your Exercise Without Going to the Gym

We have so many labor-saving devices these days, it’s no wonder we’re all getting pudgy. But, if we could look at everyday activities as exercises that can help us to reach our fitness goals and avoid paying gym fees, we might embrace them as something more positive than we have in the past.

The number of calories you burn during an activity depends on a number of factors, including your body size and composition, your gender and your age. It will also depend of the length of time you spend doing the activity but there’s no question that you can get your exercise without going to the gym.

via Get Your Exercise Without Going to the Gym.

I used to use living 18 miles from the Y as an excuse for being a fatass — another excuse was that the weather in Algoma sucks 7 months out of the year. I decided to stop making excuses and start power walking at 4.5mph, cycling at 15mph [weather permitting] and doing yoga — YES. Yoga! Deal with it…

Here are the most important tools in my smartphone arsenal:

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