Okay... so laugh if you want but I had a genius idea today.. After being sick I took afew days off from any exercise.. Well to be honest I took a break from everything, didn't do dishes, not a load of Laundry etc.. So I woke up this morning refreshed and feeling new, but the house was a wreck!! Well had to do some running a round town for about 2 hours..Get home in enough time to have to leave 10 minutes later to pick Kaya up from school.. Then 2 short hours later Jeremy has to go to work.. Long story short..It was 9 at night and I looked a round and the house was still a mess and I missed my window to be able to go for a walk..No exercise to claim for the day...AND then it hit me!!
HARDCORE HOUSEWORK!!! So started to think of all the things I needed to do and what physical movements would I be able to do to incorporate exercises into housework.. The names are very silly but... whatever I don't care..(I use an egg timer while doing this, or stop watch)
So I quickly thought of Sweeping Squat Walk..(Try it for 6 minutes and you will not laugh at this idea) I just walked all over my living room and kitchen in a squatting walk..tried to stay at 90 degrese as much as possible when standing still only slightly higher when taking steps...It took me 6 minutes to finish sweeping..It was easy at first but got really hard by minute 5..Then I did some regular squats for 4 minutes to make it an even 10 minutes..
Then I had a sink full of dishes to wash (don't have the luxury of a dishwasher) and I thought how can i make this exercise, standing in one place washing dishes...while the sink filled with soapy water I thought Sink Stretch So as the wash water filled the sink I stretched, toe touches, a few lunges, etc...Then I switched the water to fill up the rinse side.. Then I thought what about abs is there anyway to workout my abs standing up..Then I remembered seeing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6FCKflDCdc
I call it Rinse Water Punches (to keep with my theme) Easy standing ab routine takes 3 minutes, just enough time for a sink to fill up...(if your sink fills up fast just make the water flow slower)..
By this time I had been cleaning and working for 15 minutes and I could tell My heart rate was up and my muscles were being worked...And I started to get really excited this idea its a total 2 birds with 1 stone kinds thing...(I am a dork, yes... I know)
It was now time to wash the dishes.. I had to have I'm arms pretty much still..So what else could I move and stay in the same spot... So I started Dish wash Dancing A Shakira inspired shake my booty kind of belly dancing ...Only 2 songs later (about 5 minutes) I was winded, abs burning...I then thought about my calves.. I have never had well defined calves.. So I slowed down and started just slowly going to a tiptoe ballerina stance and holding it till it really burned..Then I did one leg at a time, and kicked my leg out to the side 5 times on each side..(5 reps) I was using the sink for balance, holding a dish in the hand resting on the counter while scrubbing with the other...
By then I was done with the dishes and had been moving and shaking for 25 minutes.. My legs had been worked out from the Squat Sweeping and Dish wash Dancing, my abs had gotten a good workout from the Dish wash Dancing.. All I had left was arms for a well rounded all over workout..
I saw I had yet to put my dining table chairs back at the table after sweeping...I then lifted the chair I figure it weighed at least 8 lbs ( guess) so I picked it up and played around with it for 5 minutes doing curls, held it at 90% for a good burn out..(.I don't have good names for these but I am still developing this workout if I even keep this part..lol) As soon as I realized this was very limited in what you could with a chair before you crack your shin a few times, I noticed the big bottle of laundry detergent on the dryer...And proceeded to do Laundry Lifting. For another 5 minutes I lifted that bottle of laundry detergent as many ways as I could think of to workout my arms...BURN!!!
I looked at the stop watch and it had been 35 minutes.. By then everything felt like jello so I figured, one more thing with arms then a cool down stretch...So I just did simple arms extended straight out by my sides and made small circles in the air very slow for 3 minutes, then very big for 2 minutes...Then PHEW...time for that last 5 minute stretch....
Making my HARDCORE HOUSEWORK WORKOUT 40 minutes long..All while getting my dishes clean, floor swept and counters wiped ( while on tiptoes)..I was proud, and now want to develop more Hardcore housework workouts...EEkkkkk
I will let you know if I am sore tomorrow..lol
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