Let’s talk briefly about exercise vs. activities.

Walking your dog-activity

Going for a 30 minute run-walk session – exercise

Painting, pulling weeds and general home improvement-activity (yes, even if you sweat and you are sore)

Booty Bootcamp class -exercise 🙂 of course

Parking as far away from the door as possible when shopping – activity (ok, maybe incidental exercise)

Doing 20 minutes of circuit work at the gym or in your living room (my personal gym) -exercise

Can you see a difference?

There are times when my ladies experience a plateau. I always ask them what they are doing on their "off" days from boot camp. Usually I get answers like going for a walk, walking around at a fair, working on their house, etc.

I know these activities may leave you a little fatigued and maybe even sore but they are not enough of a stress on your body to make it change.

When you are tying to remove excess fat off of your body you must give your body a reason to let go of the unwanted pounds.

If you go outside and run for 2 minutes and walk for 2 minutes for a total of 30 minutes do you think your body might have a reason to let go of some L-B’s so you can handle it next time?

If you spend all day Saturday painting your family room do you think your body will rev up to get in shape for the next marathon painting session?

The activities I mentioned earlier will cause you to burn more calories than siting on your couch or in front of your computer. And in the overall scheme of things, the more active you are the better.

But please do not buy into a false sense of accomplishment that because you parked at the far end of the parking lot or you took the stairs to the 3rd floor you got your exercise in for the day. Good for you for getting those extra calories burners in, really, I mean that. Keep it up.

But to make big dents in you excess fat and to truly progress to your goal, you must have a focused plan to get you there.

If you need some help with that I have a suggestion or two.

You know I just want to help you. I’m always here.

Sarai Jones