I don’t know about you, but I can get easily bored by my workouts.
So if you are in an exercise rut and are looking to switch things up, I have some alternatives for you.
Try one or more of these excercises to liven up your workout routine!
1. Bikram Shopwork, Vacuuming, or Laundry Folding ( For Summer or Warm Climate Regions)
Who says Bikram only goes with yoga?
Get the benefits of bikram yoga and check a few things off your to-do list at the same time.
Targets: Circulation, heart health, and body toxins
How to: Make sure you don’t have central air, or that your central air isn’t working, or that the little orange filter light on your window unit is on, and the air conditioner is only blowing out hot air.
Wait until the time of day when your thermostat is pinned to its maximum readout temperature.
Start vaccuming or grab a load of hot laundry out of your dryer.
Maintain these activities for 30 minutes to start, and work yourself up to 90 minutes.
2. Pull ups and pull downs
If lifting weights is getting old for you, try this simple exercise.
Targets: Triceps, Biceps Lats, Abs, Deltoids, also incorporates cardio
Equipment: one bathing suit that is at least 2 sizes too small because it needs to be that tight in order to hold your stomach in.
How to: Make sure both you and your bathing suit are completely wet before you begin. Put your bathing suit on. Then take it completely off. You have 45 seconds for each rep.
Start off with 1 set of 10 reps and work up to 3 sets of 10.
3. One-armed pull ups and pull downs
This is a variation of the previous exercise, but it also incorporates your legs, so no more squats or lunges!
Targets: Triceps, Biceps Lats, Abs, Deltoids, Quads, Hamstrings, Glutes, and Calves, and also includes cardio.
How to: Hold a 9-month-old in your left arm.
Put your 3-year-old daughter in a wet bathing suit. When she tells you she “Has to go poo! Now!”, sprint uphill to the public changing room.
Squat down.
With your right arm, pull down her wet bathing suit, making sure not to let it touch the disgusting floor of the changing room.
Hoist her onto the toilet with your free arm. Be sure to use proper technique and lift her from under the armpit so as not to dislocate her arem.
When she is done pooping, pull her off the toilet with your right arm, flush the toilet with your right foot, squat back down, and pull up her bathing suit with your right arm.
Still using your right arm, pick her up to reach the sink that is much too high for children, hold her against the counter with your right hip, turn on water and dispense soap with right arm.
Dispense soap a second time when her hand is nowhere near the soap dispenser the first time.
Turn off water and remove daughter from changing room without allowing her to touch anything.
Switch arms and repeat sequence.
If you can complete one full rep without yelling at the 3-year-old, dropping the 9-month-old, and without either child crying, then congratulations.
You have also just completed one full session of anger management or therapy.
Begin with one rep with the 9-month-old. Work up to three reps while holding a 2-year-old.
Have fun!
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