It’s true; there are unusual — yet effective — ways to get some muscle and fitness going, because the truth is there are many people who probably don’t have any time at all to do much more than look at somebody exercising these days. That’s sad, because knowing how to get big ripped muscles without even trying to get them is probably achievable through the performance of serious housework, maybe.
The above about gaining huge muscles could be a little bit of a stretch — when it deals with housework — but stop to think about the amount of time most of us would say we have to do any sort of fitness training. Chances are high that 95% of us would say we have no time (even when we do). That is a truly scary number but it has to be dealt with for what it is, one would say.
Don’t lose hope, because there are many people of very high intelligence (and more than a few of not-so-high intelligence) sitting around out there thinking of ways to help us find fitness within the home. This is good, because a great many of us hate the gym like we might hate an ice water bath. It seems that some housework, done properly, can actually help, even if we don’t own the house.
As an example, consider how a little bit of work on the legs can be done by flooding the basement with water and then dragging out the trusty dry wet vacuum and pushing it around down in the bowels of the watery pit that once was a basement. Push the thing with one leg and then push it with another or, alternatively, just practice dragging it up and down the basement stairs 20 or 30 times.
Alternatively, one can haul the thing down there and start cleaning up all that water. Alternate pushing it around by placing the right leg on it and moving it and then replacing that leg with the left leg and repeating a few dozen times. Soon, there will be a noticeable change in legs that once looked like little pipe stems but which are now beginning to look like Schwarzenegger’s.
Admittedly, the whole Schwarzenegger bit is somewhat of a stretch, but there’s always a grain of truth in a statement that involves any sort of physical exercise. For example, one can begin adding a little bulk (the right kind, of course) to the upper arms by hauling out some bedding — the current favorite is that CoCaLo baby bedding gear — and folding it and unfolding it over and over.
The point behind that will be repetition, blood flow into the upper arms and a little bit of effort that will pay off. One could even take the folding and turn it into a set or two. Imagine being in the gym folding and unfolding baby bedding. Okay; don’t imagine unfolding baby bedding but imagine lifting weight, because that will be the golden opportunity one needs to gain a bit of fitness at home.
