Housebound Health

Remember how I told you I was going to do 60 minutes of physical activity this week? I said that equaled out to ten minutes over six days. Well, I didn’t have any problem meeting that on Friday (I parked at the grocery store and walked over to Menards to pick up the space heater that was on sale and back before getting my groceries–20 minutes) or on Saturday (I walked around the block on one of my fifteen minute breaks at work–15 minutes.) But Sunday I forgot all about it and yesterday was rainy. Today has been rainy too.

When I’m motivated and the weather is nice, it’s not that hard for me to get aerobic exercise outdoors. I love to walk–especially if I’m walking somewhere or with someone–and I don’t mind biking–especially if I’m going somewhere (and there are plenty of places that I need to go that are within reasonable biking distance.) But when rain is falling and snow is on the ground and it’s generally mucky outside, I don’t have many options. I don’t have any exercise machines. I am not a gym person. (Besides, who has time to go to a gym and change to get all sweaty and then shower and change again? You’ve got to spend twenty minutes preparing for a twenty minute exercise time. No thank you.) So what am I to do?

Today, I got on YouTube and searched various combinations of “aerobics”, “workout”, “aerobic workout”, “fitness”, and “exercise” until I found a video that was about ten minutes long and looked to be an aerobic workout. I scored a pretty decent one:

I can’t say that there was much “gospel” in this “Gospel Aerobics”, but it was a ten minute aerobic segment with simple choreography that doesn’t take too much room. (I did it in my bedroom, in the 3×5 foot almost clear space between my bed and my computer desk.)

If you find yourself housebound, but in need of a quick aerobic pick-me-up, this might be worth a try.