Quit Excusing and Get Moving
If you can not think of ways to get moving, we have some suggestions that you can try out:
At Home
- Get your children involved. Play with them, or take them with you when you go for a jog.
- Get to work. Tell the maid to take some time off and do some intensive cleaning yourself. You will have a cleaner house and a fitter body. If it is a weekend, try washing the car yourself; it is good for you and it can be lots of fun with the kids.
- Start walking. Wait for the cool of the evening, or get up at Fajar and go for a stroll. Ask friends, family and neighbours to join you and make it fun. If you have a baby, push it in its pram for an extra workout.
- Try gardening. Mowing the lawn is great exercise and it is very satisfying to have a garden that you have cared for yourself.
- Do not be a couch potato. Instead of sitting in a sofa to watch TV all the time, do stretches, exercises, or pedal a stationary bike sometimes.
- Park your car further away than usual and walk to your office building.
- Instead of a tea or coffee break, take a ten-minute walk, inside or outside your office building.
- Avoid taking the lift every time, use the stairs instead.
- Join a gym near your office and make it part of your routine.
- Start a sports league in your office: make up a cricket or football team and compete with other departments.
- Every hour you are at your desk, spend a few minutes moving your feet up and down and in circular motions.
- Instead of calling all the time, prefer to visit your colleagues personally too at times.
- Walk, jog or bicycle.
- Swim
- Join a group teaching yoga, martial arts or aerobics
- Play squash, badminton or table tennis. Even your dining table can be converted into a table tennis table.
- Join a cricket or football league
- Take walks and explore your neighbourhood on foot. Go sightseeing and astonish your friends with your knowledge of the city!