FOCUS: study and exercise!!!!!
Although this blog is intended to avoid extra weight freshman year may add to our bodies, we are going to school primarily to learn, not to focus on becoming healthy. However, I know some small solutions to completing both studying and exercising all in one. I like to call the combination of academics with athletics “exerstudying.”
For reading chapters in a book:
In between every page/chapter/section do one minute of an exercise. Any type of movement will work. If you are trying to flatten your stomach I suggest front and side planks. For arms I would do pushups or tricep dips. Lastly for cardio, jumping jacks, burpees, or mountain climbers will definitely get your heart rate soaring.
When you are on a computer for a long period of time:
You should not be sitting at your desk or lying on your bed on your computer for more than a half hour at a time. Get your heart rate going and give your eyes a break. Try to take a five to ten minute break to do a quick ab workout or if you have weights try some bicep curls or shoulder presses. While I do not encourage you to stop right in the middle of an online homework assignment or in the middle of writing a paper, when you are feeling drained from the tedius typing or have major writer’s block, it may be a good idea to take an exercise break, rather than going on Facebook or twitter.
While these tips are not going to make you drop any amount of weight immediately, they can help relieve you of the stress of elongated periods of school work as well as boost your metabolism with spurts of aerobic movement. The best part about these activites is that they can be done in a small space with little to no equiptment, which is perfect for the dorm room! I hope as you read this on your laptop you can use one of my exerstudying tips!
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em, this was a really good idea. It was similar to mine too where people need to learn how to save time and multi task. I wrote on my blog how lazy we all are and if people just chose to walk instead of taking the bus or the elevator than it will definitely help them keep off the weight and give them that extra bit of exercise. I like this idea though because honestly I too am lazy and i get super bored at the gym! Like i can not go on anything for longer than 20 minutes. So the idea of doing a few exercises in between homework or reading I think could really work for me as well as most people.
This is really interesting! I never really thought about exercising while I am doing homework, but it is a really good idea! I do need breaks often while I am studying, so this is a really great idea! One idea if you are doing something that only requires reading is to do things like front planks while you are reading. This is actually something I’ve tried before, and it was helpful because the reading kept my mind of the burning in my body, so I was able to do the exercise for longer! I will definitely be using some of these techniques next time I am feeling stressed while I’m working on schoolwork.
This interests me because my blog, like a few others, is about staying healthy and fit in college. It’s so easy to get fat right now, I’ve definitely gained some weight since I got here but I’m trying not to turn into a complete meat ball. It’s pretty corny to do some exercises in between home work or even watching TV or something like that but it definitely can work. It’s probably the only time most of us have to exercise as of now so it’s definitely a good idea to keep in the back of your mind. Glad to see I’m not the only one trying to keep the lb’s from coming.