School's ending soon, and the holidays will officially begin. It's probably been hectic already. Lots of hockey tournaments, dance competitions, Christmas concerts, and other things to take you away from your normal workout schedule. That's NO excuse. If you know for 10 days that you are going to come up short, here are some suggestions.
Make yourself do a set of pushups, every time that you go into a common designated area of the house. Make sure that you will visit that area at least 10-15 times a day. That's day 1.
Use the same concept for day 2. Except nice, deep, slow up and slow down, squats as the exercise. You could even use the stairs to invent some kind of weird way to go up, maybe staying in a real crouch.
Same concept for day 3. Except the exercise will be crunches, or lying knee draws, or leg raises, or really any other core movement that you can come up with.
Day 4, we can go back to upper body. This time, find two sturdy chairs and do dips. If dips are too agressive, then go back to pushups.
Day 5, use that same 10-15 set a day concept (one set every time you enter a predetermined area), but toe raises will be the exercise. Nice slow, controlled toe raises on a stair works the best, I have found.
Then repeat the sequence. These are just some exercise ideas, but my point is, you can always find somewhere to do something. As the adults all stare at their electronic devices, my wife chooses to go for a fast walk when our daughter is in at dance class. Adults are not allowed in, and windows and doors are closed. Quite often, when I know I'm coming up short with lower body, I will do some one leg squats, and then toe raises, while walking to work. Arenas all have steps, don't they?
There are NO excuses to give in to the holiday mayhem. Just change your mind set.
BE INNOVATIVE and have fun.
I like this approach Mike! Incorporating exercise into a daily routine instead of scheduling something during a hectic time of year. No excuses! Cheers.
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