Exercise Made Easy

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I am 50 years old and I’m the same size today as I was when I was 15. People think I have some magic genetic reason that prevents me from putting on weight.

I’m no different to anyone else. Just like anyone else, if I eat more food than I burn off I put on weight. If I don’t take any exercise my weight will increase, just the same as it does for anyone else. So my trick, whcih isn’t really a trick at all, is to only consume as much as I need.

A key factor in my weight maintenance technique is exercise. I don’t go to the gym, I don’t play any form of sports, I don’t go swimming and I don’t jog, so how to I maintain my youthful physique and remain fit and healthy? I use a technique I call passive keep fit.

What is ‘passive keep fit’ I hear you ask? My form of passive keep fit means getting exercise without making a point of taking exercise. For example, rather than drive to the local shops to pick up a newspaper I will walk. And when I walk I walk fast so that I get a little breathless. My visits to the shop take a little longer than they would if I’d used my car, but then I’ve burned some serious calories in the round trip whereas sitting in the car does nothing but make you fatter.

I use the same approach in buildings with lifts. I will always use the stairs and will often run up two stairs at a time to burn even more calories. I also try to get some upper body exercise when sat in front of my computer at work by lifting myself 10 or 20 times on my arm rests a few time every day.

Also, when I’m relaxing in front of the TV in the evening I break this up with a few abdominal scrunches (is that what they are called). This has helped me to retain my flat stomach and six pack, much envied by my friends who all have beer bellies.

When it comes to eating and drinking, I try to stick to a healthy diet. I don’t eat any junk food and when I do it is a very special treat. I actually get a lot more pleasure from resisting the temptation than I do from giving in. I have developed a habit of visualising all that I have consumed in a day as if it was spread out on a table in front of me. This visualisation technique clearly highlights how many cups of tea and coffee I’ve consumed, whether I’ve eaten enough fresh fruit and vegetables and any other aspects of the days consumption that was less than ideal.

So I don’t count calories, I don’t work out in a gym and I don’t play sports. Yet I am the slimmest and fittest 50 year old man that I know, and I still look OK in Roxy or Animal surf clothes, which can’t be bad.