Extra Exercise
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livingdebToday I fit more exercise into my schedule than usual. One thing about exercising in public: it's unprofessional and makes you look like a weirdo. So you have to be subtle if you're going to keep from leaving a wake of completely freaked out people around you. Here's what I did:
1) Jog to bus stop. (Same amount of work as walking, but more work for my heart muscle.)
2) Do calf lifts on the bus. This was recommended by some exercise professional as something you could do while sitting at your desk: First you raise your heels until you are on tiptoe, then drop your heels and raise your toes. When my heels were up, I tried to go to the extreme tiptoes like my dance instructor is having us practice while standing. First I set my backpack on one knee and did 20 reps on that knee, then I did the other.
3) Walk to the local coop grocery store during lunch (a 20- to 25-minute walk) instead of just stopping someplace closer in to eat. (Grab some breakfast tacos at the beginning of the trip and eat them while walking.)
4) On the way back from the store, lift groceries to exercise my bicep, first 20 slow reps on one side, then the other, then the first, then the other.
5) On the way to the bus, lift my groceries out to the side, only a couple of inches to be subtle and safe, to work the deltoids on one side halfway to the bus stop and the other side the other half.
6) Pace at the bus stop (but the bus came after only about two minutes).
7) More knee lifts on the bus.
I forgot to get off the bus a stop early on the way home, but then I realized I could just do stuff around the house instead, as opposed to just going to lie down. So I put away and hung up laundry and unclogged the paper shredder. I probably would have done that stuff at some point anyway, so I'm not sure I should count that.
Still, I may have burned an extra 100 calories (mostly from walking to the store).
1) Jog to bus stop. (Same amount of work as walking, but more work for my heart muscle.)
2) Do calf lifts on the bus. This was recommended by some exercise professional as something you could do while sitting at your desk: First you raise your heels until you are on tiptoe, then drop your heels and raise your toes. When my heels were up, I tried to go to the extreme tiptoes like my dance instructor is having us practice while standing. First I set my backpack on one knee and did 20 reps on that knee, then I did the other.
3) Walk to the local coop grocery store during lunch (a 20- to 25-minute walk) instead of just stopping someplace closer in to eat. (Grab some breakfast tacos at the beginning of the trip and eat them while walking.)
4) On the way back from the store, lift groceries to exercise my bicep, first 20 slow reps on one side, then the other, then the first, then the other.
5) On the way to the bus, lift my groceries out to the side, only a couple of inches to be subtle and safe, to work the deltoids on one side halfway to the bus stop and the other side the other half.
6) Pace at the bus stop (but the bus came after only about two minutes).
7) More knee lifts on the bus.
I forgot to get off the bus a stop early on the way home, but then I realized I could just do stuff around the house instead, as opposed to just going to lie down. So I put away and hung up laundry and unclogged the paper shredder. I probably would have done that stuff at some point anyway, so I'm not sure I should count that.
Still, I may have burned an extra 100 calories (mostly from walking to the store).
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on 2006-01-25 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-26 04:52 pm (UTC)1) Not while waiting for my boss to finish getting ready for our meeting.
2) Not while waiting for a co-workder to deal with a phone call.
3) Not while waiting in line to get my lunch.
4) Not while waiting for the photocopier to do its thing.
5) Not while riding the bus. (Probably dangerous and exciting. I do recommend jumping up and down when you are alone on an elevator, or with like-minded people. It's a strange sensation.)
I'm imagining a video short called "Crazy Jumping Jack Woman" and less short one called "Return of Crazy Jumping Jack Woman" where she goes somewhere exotic on vacation.
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on 2006-01-27 05:18 pm (UTC)In my clinical rotation, I could really work out for hours... I could walk on the treadmill in the stress test lab while we're doing a resting test on the neighboring bed. But see, that would get me a 'talking to', and so I would never do that. I externalize my activity, so to speak. I also have refrained from bringing a hand grip exerciser (which *is* school/profession related, since I have to increase my hand strength in order to avoid ergonomic injury) but may do so in the future. Need to make another trip to Academy.
To get back to strange and quirky film ideas, I have to recommend this site (www.ironfrog.com), which belongs to a contra dance friend of mine in Boston. I have bought/seen (and given as gifts) two of his documentaries. One is on Door Stops and the other on Library Cats (felines in residence at libraries and bookstores around the world - this is a common phenomenon). Currently he's filming a documentary on Dental Floss. I eagerly await its release!
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on 2006-01-27 08:55 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-28 08:54 am (UTC)The library cat video is with a friend in Austin. I don't have the door stop video nearby - it's at my parents' house in NH. I could get it next time I visit. Maybe I'll do the documentary-viewing-while-exercising party when the Dental Floss video comes out! And we could film the exercise-fits-into-the-rest-of-your-life documentary during this event!!