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For most people the holiday season is extremely busy, stressful, and overwhelming at times. It is also a time of being social which means great food and drink, more then what we are generally used to.
Keep moving over the holidays to help relieve some of the tension and stress that you may feel over the holidays; to help keep your calorie balance while enjoying all that great food and drink, and to get that needed vitamin D we tend to have less of in the winter. Our weather is extradordinary right now so enjoy it.
Here are some exercise tips and a quick and easy workout you can do at home or away over the holidays.
Tips:
- Get in small frequent bouts of exercise in the day if you can't commit to a longer session.
- Now might be the time to pull out those exercise videos and do a 30 minute video.
- Stretching is exercise, and it relieves tension. 10 minutes before you go to bed can help with sleep
- Get the family involved - go for a snowshoe or toboggan.
- When out shopping park far away and walk. Packing your bags back to the vehicle can also be a bit of a strength workout ;)
Home Workout - only to be done if you have experience with the exercises below:
- Warm-up by walking around the house for 5 minutes or taking stairs in your house a few times.
Exercises - 2 x 12reps or 30 seconds of each exercise
- Step-ups on a stair or bench. Step-up and down with each leg 12 times. If you want to make it harder and you have dumbbells at your house you can hold dumbbells while you do this.
- Push-ups, either from toes or knees
- Running or high knees on the spot for 2 sets of 30 seconds
- Crunches from the floor or stability ball if you have it
- Jumping jacks for 2 sets of 30 seconds
- Bicycle crunches from the floor
- Running or high knees on the spot for 2 sets of 30 seconds
- Stand and balance on one foot or single leg squat if more experienced
- Jumping jacks for 2 sets of 30 seconds
- Cooldown by walking around your house for 5 minutes and then stretching
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