Who has time to exercise?!

Finding it difficult to fit “traditional” exercise into your busy life? By incorporating a handful of quick and simple “lifestyle exercises” into your daily routine, you will burn some additional calories without even thinking about it! To improve overall health, the current exercise/daily physical activity recommendations are at least 30 minutes a day of moderate-intensity exercise, most days of the week.

There's probably nothing new or surprising in this list. But -- how many of these principles do you regularly practice?

• Park further away from you destination, so you walk a little bit more than you do when you nab the rock star parking space.
• Use a rest room further away. Use a rest room on another floor instead of the one that is closest to your desk. And take the stairs. Both ways!
• Take a power walk at lunch to fit a mini aerobic workout into the middle of the day.
• Take the stairs instead of elevators and escalators to burn more calories.
• Take the time to play games that include movement of the body. Not only can this become quality time spent with loved ones, but it teaches the importance of body movement to family members and helps everybody burn more calories. Games like tag, jump rope, computer/television-based fitness games, and sports such as baseball, basketball, and tennis are great activities to enjoy with family members.
• Tidying up can burn more calories. Daily household activities such as sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, mowing the lawn with a push mower, gardening, and raking leaves all require caloric expenditure.