Newton’s first law of motion – A body in motion tends to stay in motion.
Unless that body lives in the DC suburbs and has had somewhere around 40 inches of snow dumped on it over the past 5 days. I now live in a world of “has been cancelled“.
My swim team practices have all been cancelled this week, along with all my yoga classes. Plus, being the outside runner that I am, there is no place to run with the snow all over the roads, and forget about trying to find a sidewalk.
So what is fitness junkie to do?
Now before you say shovel, trust me, there has been plenty of that. But shoveling has not been providing the elevated heart rate aerobic exercise I am looking for. I need something else.
Enter this great show I found on TV, Total Body Sculpt with Gilad. These videos are great! Gilad is upbeat, knowledgeable and very good at encouraging you to keep going. Plus, all the ones I’ve seen have been filmed in Hawaii, which is a nice change from the 5 foot piles of snow that now surround my house. I added some 2 pound hand-weights to increase the intensity of the workout and it has worked like a charm. Hip, hip, hooray for elevated heart rate!
These videos are for any fitness level as it allows you to work at whatever pace and intensity feels good to you. The only bad thing about doing these videos on TV are the breaks in the action for commercials. I tried to be disciplined and keep moving during the breaks, though without Gilad there, it was easy to wuss out.
So in my snow bound state I went looking to see if I could find these videos for sale anywhere. Eureka, he has several on Amazon! I will be getting a few of these as I now see the benefit of having access to fitness tools in the home.
