Fitness At 40,000 Feet

Are you a traveler who is always rushing from here to there? Are you feeling mentally-drained, experiencing insomnia, or overeating at fast foods at the airport? Do you find it difficult to overcome the discomfort and tiredness of traveling?

This book was written as a survival guide for all the fellow travelers who want to claim control over their busy lives by a salesman who clocks over 200,000 air miles a year. In this useful book you will learn:

1) 10 amazing ways to find exercise where there is none.
2) How to lose fat and have fun at the same time by being more active on the road.
3) How to exercise without having to go to a gym.
4) The secrets of a super-fit salesman
5) Fitness at 40,000 feet
6) How to run two miles in a hotel room
7) De-stressing techniques which you can use anywhere and anytime.

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Making Fitness Simple on the Job

Work. Boy, has that word been redefined over the years. What used to require two arms and two legs now requires little more than something to sit on. At the beginning of this century, more than 30 percent of the energy needed to run the
US. economy came from the power of human muscle, but today that figure has dwindled to less than l percent. For all the good technology has done, it also has turned some broad shoulders into bay windows and size 8s to size 12s.

If this rings true you might think about employing the hours between 9 and 5 for physical as well as fiscal ends, for the good of your health, your physique, and your career.

Utterly impossible, you say? You’re desk-bound, phone-bound, and computer-bound to boot?
Not to the degree you think. Besides, even if you can manage to bum only an additional 100 calories at work per day, that’s still two-thirds of the minimum daily requirement of 150 calories needed to satisfy your 1,000-calorie»a-week quota. And it’s enough to burn off seven pounds of fat in a year!

But perhaps best of all — and this is what many people wind up liking most about getting more exercise at work ——— it’s on company time! That’s right, you will be getting paid to get fit, which you should feel free to consider the greatest perk of all in this deal, Our profit-minded companies are the ones that took workplace exercise away from us in the first place, after all: Why shouldn’t they allow us to take some of it back?
Could you be heading toward a pink slip with the sort of workplace workouts I have in mind? Not if you behave yourself. The activities I’ll be suggesting, by making you more energetic and alert, may even help fun in your career. Research shows that exercise is a significantly better energizer than the likes of a pastry or a candy bar, so by pursuing fitness on the job, you just might also be pursuing a raise.

These same energizing effects can also be enjoyed by all of you who work at home, of course, perhaps even more so because you’re limited by fewer “managerial” constraints. By building short periods of exercise into your day, you’ll have more energy, you’ll be more alert, and you’ll also find yourself more resilient to the stress of dealing with children that —— sorry, all you CEOs — can make the workplace seem like a retreat.

Exercising For Arthritis Sufferers

If you suffer from arthritis, you have yet another reason to work your workouts into your morning routine: Exercise, and stretching especially, can help alleviate stiffness in joints, which tend to tighten up as we sleep. I can vouch for this personally, as an old football injury has left me with a pretty nasty case of arthritis in my lower back that leaves me feeling about as mobile as a mannequin when I first roll out of bed. After several minutes of stretching, however (pulling my knees into my chest is especially effective), followed by some chin-ups and a quick aerobic workout on my rowing machine, I feel like a new guy.

Exercise can help soothe painful arthritic joints not only by “greasing” them with a natural lubricant known as synovial fluid, but by strengthening the muscles that support them, thereby protecting the joints by absorbing impact in ways that weaker muscles could not. “By strengthening the muscles around a joint,” says George E. Ehrlich, M.D.,

Director of the Division of Rheumatology at Hahnemann Hospital and Medical College in Philadelphia, “you not only help protect the joint, you allow it to function as it was designed,”

Check first with your doctor before you start exercising if your condition is serious. It’s going to be my guess, however, that you’ll be getting a green light, and a very enthusiastic one.

Early morning exercise is such a great eye-opener because it’s such a great artery-opener, providing your body’s cells with the oxygen and other vital nutrients they need to come to life after a night’s sleep. The lift that morning exercise gives you comes from the mood-boosting cocktail of endorphins, which can produce a first-grade “high” with no strings attached, except better health.

Even if your morning routine is just some jumping and light stretching in the shower, it’s going to make a noticeable difference in how you feel, mentally as well as physically ——— precisely the stuff of which career advancement is made, according to

Robert K. Cooper, author of Health and Fitness Excellence and The Performance Edge. For most of us in today’s hyper-automated world, “increasing our physical activity is the single most important thing we can do to improve the way we look, feel, think and perform,” according to Dr. Cooper. Better yet, it doesn’t take a lot of effort to bring these energizing changes into play.

So try to make at least some form of exercise a regular part of your morning routine. And if none of the workouts we`ve suggested seem to be your style, come up with one of your own. No one knows your schedule, your body, or your temperament better than you do, after all, so you be the fitness instructor. Be creative and be flexible, varying your activities as circumstances dictate, but always remembering that exercise is exercise whether it’s done in a sweat suit or your birthday suit, in a health club or on your bedroom floor. You’ll be burning calories and building health the same as any fitness guru with chrome bar-bells and a full-length mirror.

Strength Workouts for the AM

Remember, your daily goal is to get at least 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise, 5 to 10 minutes of strength activity, and 5 to 10 more minutes of stretching, divided into whatever increments and accomplished at whatever times you find most convenient. So if it’s some mild grunting and groaning you might prefer to do before beginning your day, try any of the following. And again, no elaborate exercise attire required. Flannel pajamas will absorb a little morning perspiration as well as any sweat suit.

Indoor Strengthening Exercises
Before you shower, try spending 5 to 10 minutes doing these strengtheners.
Back and Butt Builder. This exercise feels like swimming on land and can be done before you even get out of bed.
1) Lie facedown with your feet slightly open and your arms stretched out in front of you.
2) Keeping your head down and your abdominal muscles tightened, lift one leg and your opposite arm 6 to 12 inches off the floor. Hold for at least 5 seconds. Repeat for a total of 10, then switch to your other arm and leg.

Semi Sit-ups. Another good in-bed exercise, this one tightens the abdominals. Keep your arms straight out in front of you, crossed over your chest, or with hands clasped behind your neck, depending on your level of fitness.
1) Lie on your book with your legs bent. Keeping your chin tucked, raise your head and shoulders.
2) Hold for 5 seconds and slowly lie buck down.
Do 3 sets of 10: one forward, one to the right, and one to the left.

Arm Curls. If you have 1-3 pound weights, use them for these exercises. If you don’t, use cans of soup or jars of spaghetti sauce.

Wall Slides. Nothing beats this exercise for firming upper thighs.
1) Stand with your back against a wall with your feet about a foot from it. Keep your feet about a foot apart.
2. Slide down until your knees are bent at a 90°angle. Hold for a count of 10 and repeat as many times as you can.

Toe Raises. A good calf firmer, this can be done most anytime of the day.
1) Raise both heels from the floor to stand tip-toe. Hold for a count of 5.
2) Lower and repeat 10 times.

Isometric Curls. While waiting for your coffee to brew, do 3 sets (10 repetitions per set) with 2-minute rest in between.
1) Clasp your hands together in front of you with your elbows bent at about a 90° angle. The palm of your right hand should be facing upward, the palm of your left hand, downward.
2. Lift upward with your right hand with all the force you can while pushing down with your left hand. Hold for about 5 seconds with your handsremaining essentially motionless.
3. Repeat with hands in opposite positions.