This week, I’m going to talk about refreshing our cardio exercise.
When most of us think about the gym, what we think of are those long rows of treadmills and other cardio machines. We think: boring. We think: I can think of so many other ways to spend half an hour or more.
Good news: cardio doesn’t have to involve any of those machines unless we want it to.
Literally anything that gets our heart rates up for a reasonable amount of time counts as cardio. So, yes, helping your cousin move definitely counts. The kind of yard work many of us need to do at this time of year in which we have to haul a bunch of new dirt and compost for the garden and we make 500 or so trips to the green bin to dump in weeds and other stuff we’re clearing out counts. Pretty much anything that involves heavy lifting counts.
If our lives don’t happen to involve any of those above activities, we still have lots of non-machine things to choose from, including a bunch of sports and other outdoor activities.
A couple of rubrics: keep it fun, get breathless, and do it often!
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