I
am always amazed when I come home from a trip to China how much
exercise I get when I am there. One of the keys to that is that I do
not have a car and hence if I want to go somewhere I walk. Even when
I walk to the park in the morning to exercise with my friends, it
takes me about 20 minutes and is more than one mile.
I
know that when I am home and working in the office if I do not work
at my exercise I can end up with a 2,000-step day. That is 8,000
steps below where I should be to just stay at the weight that I am.
I always like to talk to very busy people and see how they work in a
little time for themselves.
If
finding a block of time to devote to exercise is difficult, you can
always find small moments to slip in extra steps. For instance, a
recent travel day canceled my gym time. It was a perfect opportunity
to turn my wait time into walk time.
At
the airport I had several minutes to walk around the gate area before
my flight. After landing, I had to wait for my hotel shuttle so I
strolled up and down the sidewalk, keeping an eye on my luggage,
until the shuttle came. I actually clocked a mile.
Relaxing
in my room that evening, I watched a TV program. Each time a
commercial came on, I hopped out of my chair and walked up and down
the hall. By the end of the two-hour show, I had clocked another
mile. The double benefit was the thrill of missing the commercials!
I
shared this experience with a hypnotherapist friend, who told me
creative exercise stories about three of his clients. His first
client lived on the twenty-third floor of a high-rise. She started
exercising after work by taking the elevator to the eighteenth floor
and then walking the rest of the way up to her apartment. Each week
she would drop down a floor until she was walking all the way up from
the fourth floor of the building.
His
second client, a woman with small children, lived in a two-story
house and decided that each time she had to go up or down the stairs,
she would do so six times before beginning her task. Both clients
were successful in losing weight by creating maximum exercise in
limited time.
His
third client took her fifteen-minute work break every day outside in
good weather and would walk around the very large building. She also
went out for fifteen minutes after lunch. She told him that if she
didn’t take advantage of those few minutes, she would never get
any exercise.
I
recently took a five-hour road trip from Salt Lake City to St.
George, Utah. There happened to be a town about every sixty miles. In
earlier times, the towns were laid out that way, since that is how
far an oxen-pulled wagon could travel in a day. I exited at several
of the towns and got out to take a five-minute walk to keep myself
awake and alert.
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