Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Chimney-Building, Anyone?



Never ask your kids for blog ideas.  Especially just after visiting the Winchester Mystery House.  They will suggest stairs, lots and lots of stairs, in varying sizes as appropriate for one’s level of arthritis.  They will try to figure out what sort of exercise a door to nowhere (one that opens on a two story drop) could be used for and will suggest running from ghosts as cardio.  (Maybe your kids are different.)

However, they do, sort of, have a point.  We can do workouts wherever we happen to be using the environment around us.  This is the basic premise of boot camps that meet in parks and use benches and playground equipment.  Improvising a hotel room workout can make the difference between maintaining progress while traveling and coming home needing bigger pants.  I often say that if I could choose only one exercise for people to do, it would be squats.  If I could choose two, the second one would be pushups.  Those can be done anywhere, without stuff.

And if ghosts motivate us to run, I suppose that’s good, too.

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