Summary - Incorporating exercise in daily chores.. A vow
An update on my mother’s condition. Yesterday, I went to KL and brought her over to my place. We then went to the hospital in Kuala Pilah, and she was admitted into the hospital for observation. I will be going there every day to check on her. The last BP check (just after I left the hospital) showed 150/120. Still relatively high.. but hopefully a good sign.
Many factors affected blood pressure, One of which is regular exercise. Exercise does not necessarily means you put on your jogging shoes or hit the gym. The more efficient method is by doing exercise when you are doing house work.
A good example is to avoid using remote control. You will have to get up from the sofa and hit the button manually. I get this example from a tv show “Downsize Me” on Discovery channel. I then started to think of other way to do exercise indirectly at home. Maybe you can add to the list, and together we try to do the items on the list one at a time.
- Avoid using remote control, get up and switch the channel manually
- Set up rules, that when you enter your bedroom, you must do 5 push ups.
- Wash car yourself.. It’s a good exercise. Remember Karate Kid?
- When you touch a keyboard to blog, set your timer on your handphone for 30 minutes… When the timer rings, you take your skipping rope and do 50 “skipping”. If you forget, no problem.. just do it when you remember.
- Choose 5 clothes every week and wash it manually. Maybe you can choose those with stubborn stain on the neck area
- Mop the floor and play some music… maybe you can dance to the music while mopping, the whole work will take a little more time, but you are going to have more fun.
- Pick one 30 minutes sitcom every week, and exercise while watching the show non stop. You can do crunches, or just some air-punching. Anything as long you sweat and enjoy the show.
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I’m very sure that you guys have more creative ways to incorporate exercise in our daily house work. Care to share them here?
————— Personal Note ——————-
I admit that I don’t practice the items in the list. But that is exactly why I put it up here. I will try to do all the 7 items, one for every day in the week.
Monday - remote control day | Tuesday - push ups room day| Wednesday - Wash car (today I’m going to wash the car) |Thusday - 30 minutes of keyboard, 50 skipping | Friday - Wash clothes | Saturday - mop the floor | Sunday - sitcoms
A vow made… come join me 
