There are plenty of ways to stay fit in your Bahamas home that require no equipment – and bring lots of other positive benefits. Exercising is excellent for your health and helps lift your spirits and feel more positive, thanks to the extra endorphins produced as you work out at home.
Here are five simple suggestions, from Engel & Völkers Bahamas Advisors, of ways you can stay fit – and keep on top of household tasks at the same time!
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Alex Jupp suggests climbing the stairs
Running up and down stairs can burn fat and offers a great cardiovascular workout, but take care to watch your footing, so you do not stumble and fall. Climbing stairs can burn twice the fat as running and offers an effective workout.
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Colin Lightbourn suggests gardening
You might not realize it, but gardening is a great calorie burner, provides a feel-good factor, and enhances your property! Hard landscaping, including digging and moving stone, can burn up to 600 calories an hour. Collecting and gathering leaves for compost can burn up to 450 calories an hour. Weeding can use up to 400 calories per hour and mowing the lawn up to 350. Bending and stretching while gardening, if done correctly, is right for you – if not a little pain while you get used to it! Being outdoors can help you feel more positive and relieve stress, and growing fruit and veg provides healthy produce. On top of all that, improving your garden adds value and beauty to your home!
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Claire Thackray suggests using free video exercise routines.
YouTube and other video sites have a wealth of exercise routines that target various fitness regimes, offer workouts for men and women of different ages, and concentrate on firming up different areas of the body. Simply set up in your favorite room and follow the instructions on the video. No matter how busy you are, you can find something to suit, as options range from one-minute upwards. Exercise burns calories, tones, muscles, and releases endorphins that help you feel positive, once it is over!
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Ana Wassitsch suggests dancing
Fancy a boogie? An energetic dance along to your favorite tracks can burn up to 500 calories per hour, depending on your dance style and help you stay fit. If you don’t want to choreograph your moves, then YouTube and similar channels provide a host of dance/fitness instructors. Music can also feel more positive during Lockdown and can help to stay calmer, reducing blood pressure. If you have a compatible console, you can find dance/fitness games that are specially made for the part.
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Natasha Vythoulkas suggests doing housework
It might be a chore, but housework is good exercise! A simple task like ironing and dishwashing can burn around 130 calories an hour, for an average 150-pound person. Just putting away groceries can use 150 calories an hour. General housework, including cleaning, can burn 165 calories an hour. Need to refresh your room and move some furniture? That can use 450 calories an hour. Cleaning the car can take up 300 calories an hour. Who knew there were so many benefits to housework?
