As you go about your fat loss program, one thing that you should be paying attention is making the effort to be as active as you can on an everyday basis. Far too many people place all the emphasis on what they’re doing in the gym and while their gym workouts are definitely important – there’s no getting around that, fat loss is about more than just the hour or so that you spend working out.
If you really want to send your fat loss into high gear, one of the smartest things that you can do is look at the many different ways that you can incorporate more exercise and activity into your day.
It’s really quite possible to burn an additional 500 or more calories each and every day simply by moving more, so not something that you should ever overlook.
Let’s have a quick peak at some of the important tips to remember if you want to be more active every day.
1. Park And Walk
The very first method to be more active on a daily basis is the commonly stated trick of parking a little further from your work and walking the rest of the way there. This is great for a couple of reasons.
First, first thing in the morning it’ll help give you a much needed energy boost to get your day going and help set the frame of mind for a healthier day. In addition to that, you’ll burn about a hundred calories or so (assuming you walk about a mile) before your day even gets going.
Then after work is finished, that walk back to your car will help to re-energize the body (which most people do definitely need at this point) and also help to loosen up all the tense muscles, joints, and ligaments. After sitting all day long, chances are you are quite tense and stiff, so this can be a fast and effective way to reduce that discomfort.
In addition to that, the walk after work can be a great way to clear your head, so can provide optimal stress relief after your busy day.
Or, if you’d prefer not to go the route of walking to and from work, consider instead riding your bike to and from instead. Depending on the distance you have to travel, this can also be a very viable option.
2. Get Active As A Family
The next way to start incorporating more physical activity into your day is to get active as a family. Most people are either not dedicating enough family time out of the week to spend with their loved ones and if they are, they’re doing sedentary activities such as watching movies.
Instead, get out and get active together. Go for a bike ride, go swimming, or go on a long weekend hike. This can be the perfect way to also teach your kids the importance of regular physical activity, so can have serious benefits in that regard as well.
3. Window Shop
Likewise, when you plan to get together with a friend, make sure that you’re seeking out active things to do. Don’t sit down and go for coffee, remaining sedentary for an hour or two.
Get up and go window shopping. It’s a much better way to enhance your health and add more activity into your day.
Window shopping is fast, free, and easy – and will burn a couple hundred calories per hour.
4. Join A Recreational League
Another smart option to consider if you’re stuck for ideas on how to get active is to consider joining a recreational sports league. If you’ve been caught up in gym workouts since your early twenties, think back to when you were in your teens and which sports you liked to play.
Then start investing options in your area. As a teen you probably didn’t think about the sport as a method of exercise – but rather something that you just did for enjoyment’s sake.
Doing this sport again can help to liven up any physical activity program and bring the joy back into your workouts.
In addition to that, depending on the sport that you’ve selected, you may also reap incredible fitness benefits as well.
For example both soccer and basketball are very intense in nature and will mimic an interval training session, so are excellent for bringing about top notch fat burning results and improvements in your anaerobic capacity. Also, try using jumping stilts. They provide an awesome workout, and are lots of fun!
5. House Clean
As dull as it sounds, don’t discount the physical activity benefits of house cleaning. You have to do it sometime, so if there’s a day you really just do not feel like getting into the gym and want something else to do, make that the day you house clean.
This way you’ll kill two birds in one stone – you’ll get the cleaning done that you don’t want to do and still maintain some level of activity for the day.
So there you have some quick and simple ideas that you can use to help boost your physical activity on an everyday basis. The more consciously aware you can be of whether you’ve been sitting for a long period of time – and if you have, get up and move around, the better results you’re going to see.
Sitting for extended periods of time is quite detrimental to your overall health as well, so even if it’s just getting up and walking around the office for a while or going to another floor to use the washroom so that you have to climb a couple flights of stairs, so be it. Anything that gets you up and mobile is going to serve to provide great benefits.
As you start forming the habit of doing this, you can watch your daily calorie burn increase and your fat burning move along far faster than it was before.
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