NO MATTER HOW much we try, there are some of us who just really struggle to get out and exercise. It could be down to work, laziness or injury but some people just don’t have much fitness in their life………..or do they?
Even if you don’t go to a gym, play for a sports team or regularly go for runs, you probably still do something that keeps you (at least a teeny, tiny bit) fit.
Here are 6 things that might be keeping you trimmer than you otherwise would be.
Running for a bus
Every single person in Ireland has to have done this during their life. Irish buses always seem to be ten minutes late when you are waiting at the stop but if you are walking towards it in good time it will speed around the corner like Eddie Irvine behind the wheel of a Ferrari.
Depending on your proximity to the stop when this occurs, you might have to sprint like Usain Bolt, canter like Sonia O’Sullivan or jog like Mo Farah. Regardless, you’ll have done about 0.001% worth of training for your next marathon. Just look how agile and alert this man is from all of his years of bus running.
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Opening a window
Not all windows are created equal. Some require minimal stress and effort to pop open while others force you to use every muscle in each arm to pry it open as if it has been welded shut.
Ever notice why many people have one window in their house that is never open? That is because some distant cousin probably tore their bicep from the bone trying to jam it loose.
If you like to keep your residence cool, then be prepared to notice increased muscle definition in your upper arm as you do regular window curls. And stay away from VELUX windows unless you want one of your upper limbs in a sling.
Taking in the shopping
It’s all fun and games when you are whizzing around Lidl or Aldi knocking product after product into your trolley as if you are part of Dale’s Supermarket Sweep, but what happens when you get home?
If you live on one of the top floors of an apartment building that has no lift, then you likely have very well defined calf muscles from trudging up and down the stairs on a daily basis. You’ll even see fit people sharply inhaling breath after a particularly rigorous staircase.
If you are ever being promoted up a floor at the office, give a Football Manager style ultimatum that you want a lift. Otherwise, you will end up feeling like poor Mario here.
Putting on a new style of jeans
Ever since Paul Galvin’s style more or less became the style of most young men, the traditional pair of blue jeans has given way to a more slimline design. If you have a normal buttocks, it can be quite a struggle to get into a pair of these trousers.
Galvin should look distraught since he caused the death of jeans that catered for an ample posterior. Lorraine O'Sullivan / INPHO
Lorraine O'Sullivan / INPHO / INPHO
There will be wiggling, squirming and writhing and at the end you will feel like you’ve wrestled Kurt Angle, Olympic-style. But after enough of these manful struggles, you will actually start fitting into them. Mission accomplished.
Going to concerts
Music fans have long since decided the following: listening to your favourite band > standing up for a grotesque amount of time. But people who want to sit down at concerts aren’t just ‘squares’, they are also weakening their glute and leg muscles while the upright heroes among you will have legs like a young Ollie Campbell.
With those legs, Ollie Campbell obviously went to a few concerts back in the day. Billy Stickland / INPHO
Billy Stickland / INPHO / INPHO
6 ways we accidentally keep fit on a daily basis
NO MATTER HOW much we try, there are some of us who just really struggle to get out and exercise. It could be down to work, laziness or injury but some people just don’t have much fitness in their life………..or do they?
Even if you don’t go to a gym, play for a sports team or regularly go for runs, you probably still do something that keeps you (at least a teeny, tiny bit) fit.
Here are 6 things that might be keeping you trimmer than you otherwise would be.
Running for a bus
Every single person in Ireland has to have done this during their life. Irish buses always seem to be ten minutes late when you are waiting at the stop but if you are walking towards it in good time it will speed around the corner like Eddie Irvine behind the wheel of a Ferrari.
Depending on your proximity to the stop when this occurs, you might have to sprint like Usain Bolt, canter like Sonia O’Sullivan or jog like Mo Farah. Regardless, you’ll have done about 0.001% worth of training for your next marathon. Just look how agile and alert this man is from all of his years of bus running.
Opening a window
Not all windows are created equal. Some require minimal stress and effort to pop open while others force you to use every muscle in each arm to pry it open as if it has been welded shut.
Ever notice why many people have one window in their house that is never open? That is because some distant cousin probably tore their bicep from the bone trying to jam it loose.
If you like to keep your residence cool, then be prepared to notice increased muscle definition in your upper arm as you do regular window curls. And stay away from VELUX windows unless you want one of your upper limbs in a sling.
Taking in the shopping
It’s all fun and games when you are whizzing around Lidl or Aldi knocking product after product into your trolley as if you are part of Dale’s Supermarket Sweep, but what happens when you get home?
Something like this, that’s what.
Stairs, lots of stairs
If you live on one of the top floors of an apartment building that has no lift, then you likely have very well defined calf muscles from trudging up and down the stairs on a daily basis. You’ll even see fit people sharply inhaling breath after a particularly rigorous staircase.
If you are ever being promoted up a floor at the office, give a Football Manager style ultimatum that you want a lift. Otherwise, you will end up feeling like poor Mario here.
Putting on a new style of jeans
Ever since Paul Galvin’s style more or less became the style of most young men, the traditional pair of blue jeans has given way to a more slimline design. If you have a normal buttocks, it can be quite a struggle to get into a pair of these trousers.
There will be wiggling, squirming and writhing and at the end you will feel like you’ve wrestled Kurt Angle, Olympic-style. But after enough of these manful struggles, you will actually start fitting into them. Mission accomplished.
Going to concerts
Music fans have long since decided the following: listening to your favourite band > standing up for a grotesque amount of time. But people who want to sit down at concerts aren’t just ‘squares’, they are also weakening their glute and leg muscles while the upright heroes among you will have legs like a young Ollie Campbell.
What other ways do you accidentally keep fit?
The importance of glute stretching (and why we ALL fail this stretch test)
How to master the wide-arm chin up and get that v-shaped bod
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