Summer T.V. is Back - Exercise Fun

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

29 May 2008 11:45 AM

I've talked about how much I love television before. I don't get to watch it nearly as much as I may like it, but that's why I have a TiVo and lots of shows on DVD so I can watch them on my schedule, typically when I'm exercising. My daughter has developed a similar love for her television shows, only she doesn't hit the treadmill. So we have a deal, especially where her favorite shows like "Drake and Josh" are concerned.

Exercise on Cue

We play the television exercise game. For those needing a crash course, you choose a moment or moments that occur frequently in a favored series and this is when you do your exercise. For example, if you're on the treadmill, you kick up the speed for 1 minute every time Booth says "Bones" on Bones.

So in short, the rules are:

• Choose a television show you enjoy
• Choose moments that are popular in the show
• Perform that exercise whenever that moment happens on the show

Show Suggestions

• Drake & Josh - For my daughter it's whenever either of them says the others name!
• The Closer - Every time Brenda Leigh Johnson says "Thank you, thank you so much."
• So You Think You Can Dance - Whenever the judges criticize something in the dance
• Stargate: Atlantis - Whenever someone snarls "Rodney!" or says "The Ancients"
• House - Whenever House pops some vicodin
• Desperate Housewives - Whenever there's a 'dadadoom' close-up on one of the wives
• Without a Trace - Whenever they do a close up of the timeline
• General Hospital - Whenever Jason says looks 'pained'
• Commercials - For fun and if you watch commercials, ramp it up whenever you see a commercial for a pharmaceutical
• CSI Miami - Every time Horatio does something with his sunglasses or delivers a 'one-liner' - be prepared for a hard workout

These are just for fun, as always and if all you did was chuckle, appreciate the calorie burn for laughter.

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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Mildred04 (15) 30 May 2008 01:51 AM

What a great Idea. I am going to adopt this even though my kids are really young... anything to get the dazed glazed look out of thier eyes as they watch tv.

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Heather Long (16954) 30 May 2008 02:55 AM

It works too. My daughter jumps up and does 4 to 6 jumping jacks every time they say each other's name on that show. She's got other motions for other shows. The only time she asks to get out of it is if she's reading a book while the tv is on and then I tell her to turn the tv off.