What’s the one thing a person without use of their legs wants to do? Run.
What’s the one thing a person who is struggling to breathe wants to do? Walk to the front door.
What’s the one thing a child who has been hospitalized for weeks wants to do? Swing at the playground.
Do you have legs? Can you breathe? If yes, then step away from the computer and go outside while the weather is beautiful and take a walk. Make it more fun and take a kid or significant other along. Been a while since you exercised regularly? Commit to 3 times a week. Already work out 3 times a week? Make it 4. It’s time to get moving people! I am watching my father struggle to breathe. If he could walk to the park right now, it would give him such joy. Yet it seems that some people can, but choose not to. God gave us the ability to use our bodies far beyond what we think is possible. It is amazing how much I will push my body when I am working out with my trainer as opposed to when I show up to the gym by myself. I tell my trainer, “I can’t do it”. He says “yes you can”. He is right.
Here’s a good article on how to incorporate exercising in your life. Also, instead of obsessing about calories and diet, just start exercising. Here is an article about how exercise changed one woman’s life.
I know….You are busy. Really busy. I get it. I feel so sorry for you. Here’s’ a link on how busy people find time to exercise. If you are still stuck on what to do for food and exercise, visit my friend Maureen's website Making it all Fit.
Be thankful you have the heart and the lung capacity, as well as the working limbs to exercise and get out there and do something. Better yet – tell your kids to get out there. I see more and more young kids entering high school who are bigger than women who have had multiple child births. Some weight problems are hereditary, but most are because the kid’s exercise routine includes Facebook, texting, video games and MTV. Take them to play tennis, throw a Frisbee, or go for a hike. There are some awesome parks in Missouri if you are from here.
Other ways to get exercise without thinking about it:
- Push a wheel chair at the park
- Push a stroller at the zoo
- Give a kid a piggy-back ride
- Do leg lifts while your toddler hangs on to your leg
- Do laps around the house or in the house when you are on a call with a chatty Cathy
- Park in the a spot the furthest from the entrance at the restaurant you are going to
- Take the stairs in every building you enter for crying out loud. Elevators in 3 story buildings were NOT made for people who can walk. They are for people in wheel chairs and parents with strollers and old/sick people. If you aren’t any of those things, then take the dang stairs.
- Walk the escalator stairs at the mall.
Anyway, I hope I’ve encouraged you to TAKE ACTION by getting some exercise.
Angela
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