The TV Workout

Craig Harper shares this thought:

Yesterday I posted (on Facebook) that the average Aussie watches around 25 hours of TV per week (the majority of that being in the p.m. hours). Now, you may not know that an average hour of night time commercial television contains about fifteen minutes of ads. So, imagine if instead of channel surfing, eating crap or making another cuppa while the ads are on, we used those small instalments (of about three minutes) to move our body, elevate our heart rate, stimulate our muscles and expend a few extra calories. We could do this via simple but effective activities like stair walking, step ups, exercise bike, skipping, squats, lunges, sit-ups, push-ups, dips or a myriad of other body-weight exercises. We don’t need to join a gym (and this is coming from a gym owner), we don’t (necessarily) need special equipment or training clothes, we don’t need to hand over any money, we need not worry about the weather and we don’t have to travel to a facility. If the average person only ever ‘worked out’ during the ads, he or she would exercise for around 375 minutes (six and a quarter hours) each week. Which equates to more than three hundred hours of structured exercise per year.

via The TV Workout.