Fitness opportunities present themselves everyday – even when you least expect it. “Fitness happens!” sometimes in the most unusual circumstances and under peculiar, or not so peculiar, circumstances. When you’re plugged into those opportunities, you can reap the benefits even when you least expect it!
Top 10 "Fitness Happens" Moments:
- Strength training: When you decide to throw the empty laundry basket down the stairs instead of walking it down after finishing folding.
- Building lung capacity: When your child is throwing a candy tantrum in your local grocery store and you take 10 deep breaths before you gently explain to them, “Because I said so.”
- Stretching: When you are frantically reaching up to the top shelf in your kitchen to grab the Halloween candy that you had left over and had stashed way, way in the back.
- Cardio: When you are late for work and start running around the house trying to find your car keys in “the place you put them so that you would never forget.”
- Building muscular endurance: When you decide that one trip from the car and back with your hands full of groceries is better than multiple smaller trips.
- Squats for leg strength: When you realize that your light walk in the woods is going to be interrupted by your bladder, and only trees are in sight.
- Interval training: When you find out last minute that your mother is coming over to visit and you start dusting and organizing everything in sight (i.e., shoving everything that is laying around into the nearest hiding spot).
- Building shin strength: When you are in rush hour traffic and see an opening in the lane next to you and accelerate to get into the lane only to find that every car is still passing you. Chest strengthening bonus -- if you shake your fists in the air after you realize that you are no better off now then you were in the first place!
- Building core strength: Keeping your balance on the subway or bus, while holding on to a small slippery metal bar that is far too high for you to reach.
- Endurance training: Hopping on and off the diet rollercoaster numerous times in hopes that “this time will be different.” This exercise is a lot like tap dancing, only a lot less fun and never a good idea.
You can thank Jennifer Ricupero, BS, MS, AFAA the Fitness and Recreation Manager at Green Mountain at Fox Run for the laughs!
