Maintaining Exercise During Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a time to spend with friends and family while eating some delicious food. Unfortunately, physical activity and healthy eating are placed pretty far down the list of priorities. Here are a few simple ways you can incorporate exercise into the Thanksgiving holiday while still spending time with those you care about.

  1. Plan a Thanksgiving Day Event. Meet up with your friends, family and neighbors the morning of Thanksgiving and exercise together. You can start a tradition and play a game of football, baseball or any other sport. Good competition will always get you in the mood to work hard.
  2. Schedule a 5K. There are lots of organizations that schedule 5K runs/walks around Thanksgiving. They usually support a great cause and are also really good workouts. Running/Walking a 5K burns a huge amount of calories the day of the race in addition to all the training you do leading up to the big day. Try the Turkey Trot in Rockland County!
http://www.rocklandroadrunners.org/races/TT/index.html
  1. Pre/Post Thanksgiving Workout. Since Thanksgiving is all about tradition, think about how the Pilgrims and Indians got around back in those days. There were no cars or busses. If they wanted to get somewhere, they’d walk or ride a horse. Since it isn’t realistic to walk (or ride your horse) to your Thanksgiving Dinner, simulate the walk by working out 30 minutes longer than normal on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and 30 minutes longer on the Friday after.
  2. Walk It Off. Don’t forget to have a post-Thanksgiving meal walk! You’ll probably be too heavy to run or do any other form of rigorous exercise. Walking will burn a few calories and let your mind unwind after being stuck inside all day long.

The Bottom Line…

Exercise is a good way to keep the unwanted holiday weight off. Exercising doesn’t necessarily require a gym and there are plenty of ways to burn calories while spending time with your family.

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