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Here are some Best Fitness routines for you. If you’ve been visiting this health and fitness blog for fitness tips, over last couple of weeks you’ll know by now all about how to get fit and healthy by following my free fitness routines.

For those of you who are new to this, I’ve been giving advice about fitness routines and fitness tips and how to make great improvements in your diet without making any major changes to the food you eat, and how to have a good exercise workout without taking any time out to exercise in a gym.

We’ve talked a lot about healthy diet, but last week we focused on exercise, and I’d like to continue with Fitness Routines and exercise tips this week.   The great news is that you can get an essential minimum amount of exercise in daily life without going to the gym, and without even setting aside time to exercise at home.   Refer back to last week’s article about exercise at home to get a couple of great workouts  for your legs and abs.

You probably drive to work, and even if you don’t, then you probably spend some time in the car going to the shops or wherever.   And isn’t it frustrating and boring when you get stuck at the lights, or caught in the peak-hour traffic!   Well, here’s a way to make it not so boring, using my system of fitness routines in your daily life while you are driving.

Next time you have to stop at the lights, put your hands on the wheel in the “quarter to three” position.   Now, pull outwards as though you were trying to stretch the wheel out to the sides.   You don’t have to strain, just use about 70% of your strength.  You’ll feel a very pleasant stretch in the muscles of your shoulders and your back.    Pull like that for a slow count of 5, and then relax. This kind of stretching fitness routines helps you do your stretching exercises while doing other chores.

If the lights have changed, then that’s passed the time for you, but if you’re still at a standstill, hold the wheel again, in the same position, and this time push inwards, as though you were trying to compress the wheel flat.  This time, you’ll feel a very nice stretch in your pecs. You may also notice a good stretch in your lats – these are the big muscles that run down outside of your back from your shoulders down towards your waist. Remember by following these fitness routines, you will be able to motivate yourself to go at a next level of your fitness journey. Just hold this squeeze for a slow count of five, and that’s all you need to do.   Probably the lights have changed now so you can go with this great workout and your daily fitness routines while driving.

You had to stop at the lights anyway, and instead of getting frustrated and filling your bloodstream with all those anger-chemicals, you’ve actually had a little workout or a nice and easy exercise that comes under the fitness routines it helps tone up your upper body, and worked off some of that traffic frustration !

Here’s another one of the easiest  fitness routines for you.   Next time you have to stop, put the handbrake on and try this.   Put your hands on the wheel and push yourself back into your seat to hold you steady, and just lift your feet off the floor.   Just a couple of centimetres is all that’s needed, as soon as your feet aren’t supported on the floor any more you’ll get a really good stretch on your abs, your stomach muscles.   Just hold your feet like that for a slow count of 5, and then put them back down.   If the traffic is still stopped do it once more, then put your feet back on the pedals and get ready for the traffic to move again.   This is a great one, it’s one of the excellent fitness routines and stretching workout for your abs, and it only takes a few seconds.

The beauty of all this is that you don’t have to put aside half an hour of your precious home-time to exercise, because you‘ve done one of your fitness routines while you were driving home!   These 3 exercises or you can say your fitness routines will help to tone your body.

Exercise without exercise, that’s the secret.  Now, like I said last time, these fitness routines will give you more energy, and might motivate you to actually take it to the next level of your fitness journey and start going to a gym, and if that happens then I can give you some seriously good fitness routines to follow in the gym.

Contact me today for any questions about how to get fit doing your daily fitness routines.

If you’ve been following my fitness blog so far, you’ll know now how you can achieve great improvements in your health without making any great changes in your lifestyle.   Just by making these few simple changes in your diet, you can make a big difference in your level of fitness, and your weight loss !   It’s so easy, yet so effective, that you could call it “dieting without dieting”.

Now, as everyone keeps saying, there are two important elements to keeping healthy diet, which we’ve covered, and exercise.   To keep slim and fit, you also need to exercise.

Well, I’ve shown you “dieting without dieting”.   Now let me show you Exercising without Exercising !

We will look at some tips to exercise at home. OK, imagine this.   You’re standing in your kitchen.   You’re waiting for the coffee pot to boil, or for the microwave to ding.   Or for the toaster to pop.   These things only take 60 seconds, but it seems like you’re standing there for ages, doesn’t it, and it’s boring too.   Right, so just put one hand on the kitchen counter to balance yourself, and squat down.   Yes, just squat down.   Now, if you’ve been sitting and standing all day, you will immediately feel this wonderful stretching feeling in your thighs and calves, ahhhhh, that’s nice.   And, if you think about it, you can also feel a gentle releasing and loosening in your ankles and knees.   Feels good, doesn’t it.   OK, that’s it, now stand up again.   And as you stand up, feel that nice exercise in the muscles of your hips too.

So what have we just done ?   Well, the reason so many old people end up not being able to walk without the support of a walking frame is because they lose the strength and flexibility in their ankles and knees.   But if you do this squat each day, you will keep your ankles and knees toned and supple for life.   And not only that, but also you will keep your calves, thighs, and hips toned and strong.   And that will make your legs look firm and sexy, which is good whether you’re a guy or a gal.

Of course, this is not a substitute for half an hour in the gym on the Stairmaster, but if you just want to be able to walk around comfortably for the rest of your life, this is all you need to do.

And talking of walking, next time you’re walking, pay attention to your feet.    Don’t just clump along on your heels, instead put your heel down and then feel your whole foot roll on the ground, and finish the step by flexing your toes, so that you exercise your whole foot from your heels to your toes.   This is another great flexibility exercise for your ankles, and it’ll also keep your calves toned and firm.   On top of that, walking will seem much easier, you’ll feel lighter, and you’ll look good with these simple tips of exercise.

Do you take the tram to work ?  Or the train maybe, or the bus.   Have you noticed how even a five-minute wait seems to last forever ?   So next time you’re standing there getting frustrated, try this.  Tense the muscles of your stomach.   That’s right.   See if you can isolate, and tense up, your stomach muscles, all the way from the lower muscles below your belly-button all the way up to the muscles below your ribs.   No-one else will know what you’re doing, so see if you can hold that whole area of muscle flat and hard for five seconds.   That’s right – that’s all it needs, five seconds.    When you can do it, then do it again, and again, it gets easier with practise.   Do this waiting for the tram to work, and the tram home, and after a week you’ll begin to notice that your stomach is getting flatter and firmer, because not only are you strengthening the muscles that hold your stomach in, but you’re also massaging away some of the fat that is beginning to accumulate there.   You have to stand and wait anyway, so if you can spend 5 seconds or 10 seconds of that waiting time exercising your stomach, then you might even find yourself building up a little 6-pack there after a while !

See what I mean – exercising without exercising !

That’s a start for this week, to introduce you to this great concept.

Forget the gym, forget setting aside 30 minutes at home each day, just exercise at home without really exercising and you’ll feel good and look good.   And you never know – it might get so easy, and you might feel so toned, and you might starting to look so good, that you might find that you have the energy and the motivation to start going to the gym to get really fit !

So come back soon, and I’ll give you some more of these non-exercises to do.   Without taking any time out to exercise, you can give your whole body a complete workout every day !

See you soon !

Ash.