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DrTri Health & Fitness HomeWork for 3/9/10

Chores...?


I am not sure if there is a direct correlation, but I am sure there is something to be said about the relationship between health and fitness and ‘having to do chores’ everyday, especially at zero dark thirty (or before the cows are up).


Seems like you could draw some sort of relationship between doing chores and health/fitness.


About the time we started to get all fancy and industrialized (and subsequently had less ‘daily chores’) we also started to get more and more unhealthy and unfit.

So, let’s turn back the clock.


For the next 7 days, our HomeWork is to re-enact the daily physiological demand of light to medium chores.


That translates, for our use, into 5 minutes of vigorous activity before the cows and sun come up.


Each morning before dawn, get on your rowing ergometer, put on your shoes and head out for a vigorous walk, get on your treadmill, do push up and sit ups non-stop, or whatever you need to do in order to be vigorous for 5 minutes...


I define vigorous as getting your heart rate up above 60% of your max heart rate...


A very, very rough way to estimate this is:

220 (beats per minute) minus age = maximum heart rate.


Maximum heart rate multiplied by the intensity level = target heart rate.

For example, a 50-year-old woman exercising at 60% maximum would use the following calculation:

220 - 50 = 170 (maximum heart rate)


170 X 60% = 102 (minimum target heart rate)

So, she would want to get her heart rate above 102 for 5 minutes.


In other words, she will be sweating and puffing!!!

If you really want to do well on this, make sure your activity is OUTSIDE. Rain, snow, or shine, the chores needed to be done. The cows were not going to milk themselves, sonny! A vigorous walk around the neighborhood would work perfectly...

Otherwise, all you really have to do is get up about 5 minutes earlier and do some sit ups, lunges, push-ups, etc. etc. beside your bed.  Heck, you could easily do this before "the kids get up"...

Have a great rest of the week!

MRoss
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