AS FOR FITNESS-USE YOUR HEAD.
Both ways, figuratively and literally, use your head.
Figuratively, I mean count the cost (gym subscription, hyper-tech devices, designer sports outfits and the works).
Then literally..... use your head,( pan on the head at a construction site, as a daily paid labourer aka kimbom/ kuimbom). Seriously, jokes apart truth be told, these guys make money and they get to pump muscles while doing so. They work their biceps, triceps, quadriceps, gluteals, obliques all muscles. Their nutrition habit is junk-inspired: white bread, carbonated sugary- loaded drinks, high starch pastries, high starch food. They have little regards for protein and vitamin containing foods, it's carbs all the way, yet, I am yet to see a fat fellow among them construction labourers.
Okay, that may be extreme, but you can try these:
1.House chores. Cooking from start to finish, laundry, ironing, mopping. Tips for weight-loss mopping, carry mop bucket on one hand while mopping with the other. Lift bucket in up and down motion like you would do with dumbell. Switch between both hands.
Save the money you would have paid house keepers, dry cleaners and cook, in a separate account, visit it after one year and WOW.
2. Sanctuary Work. We in Nigeria understand this on another level. Here we don't take it as mere volunteer activity, we believe there are blessings tied to it. So, instead of rushing off to the gym or sports club on saturday mornings, join the Sanctuary unit and get your Church building cleaned inside out.
3. Evangelism work. Not online, not bus work. House to house, walking some distance in the process. Yes, you could burn a lot of calories doing the most important job on earth. The dividends are priceless.
4. Dancing. The Bible says it all, "A merry heart is medicine ". You achieve physical fitness and good health by dancing. Turn on your favourite play list, and dance for 30 minutes at least three times a week. Make sure every part of your body is moved some way.
There you are! Pocket friendly ways of achieving physical fitness. You don't need to become someone else's cash machine to be physically fit.
Did I say no more gyms? Of course not.
Which ever you choose,
Do remember exercise goes with right diet for a healthy life.
Do Eat Responsibly.
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