Improving your fitness level and health need not be a gruelling process. Check out these simple measures that can result in huge improvements.
1. Use your waiting time to exercise
Much of our home lives are spent sitting around waiting: for a meal to cook, for an advertisement to end or for someone on the phone. Fill these gaps with a few simple exercises, from chair dips to dumbbell curls. Incorporate a range of fuss-free exercises into your everyday moments, and see the difference it can make to your strength and fitness over time.
2. Make things harder for yourself
It is very tempting to cut corners sometimes, but if you want to get fit, some extra corners need to be created. Walk instead of driving to the local shops, use the stairs rather than a lift or an escalator and offer to do little odd jobs to increase your movement.
3. Look at your diet
Making conscious choices in food goes a long way towards a healthier lifestyle. And the greatest revelation you will have today? Healthy food need not be bland, boring, and time-consuming to make. Whip up a simple multigrain sandwich at home, spice it up with mashed boiled eggs, a dollop of creamy avocado and fat-free sauces to create a satisfying meal. Short on time? Opt from the delectable range of Subway Fresh Fit™ subs, each containing 350 calories or less, and made just the way you like it.
4. Make the most of your phone
Try the MyFitnessPal app, which counts your calories, sets goals and gives you estimates to achieve weight loss. Or, go the extra mile with the Nike+ running app, which uses a GPS to track your runs. There is also C25K, an app that helps you graduate from your couch to running five kilometres within nine weeks. Whatever your fitness goals, there’s likely an app that’ll set you in the right direction.
5. Get addicted to TV
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Yes you’ve read that right. Keep healthy while watching the latest episodes of your favourite television series – so long as you do it at the gym. Many modern establishments have TVs in every corner, often on every treadmill, which benefits you in two ways: you watch your favourite TV, and let it distract you as you get fitter and leaner.
No matter what your fitness goals are, there are small steps you can take to achieve them more easily. Starting slowly helps you build up a lifestyle you can maintain and over time you’ll find these small changes soon become healthy habits for life.
Source: Yahoo Singapore