Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Happy FIT Tuesday!

Well it's Fit Tuesday once again, and one day closer to Spring!

In case you were not aware, Fit Tuesday (also called Mardi Bonne Santé in the French Quarter of Louisiana) occurs every year on the day before Ash Wednesday. It is a day where people worldwide celebrate fitness and good health by exercising vigorously, eating their recommended daily veggies, drinking plenty of water, and deciding what fattening food or or poor health habit they will give up forever starting at the stroke of midnight (the beginning of Lent.)

It's a big fitness party to which everyone in the world is invited!

Here's two great tips to make your Fit Tuesday hot, hot hot (as in heat energy released by burning calories)!:

  1. When you hit the gym today, try out every single different cardio machine for 10 minutes. This makes 40-60 minutes of fat burning exercise seem almost too easy to be true. It also keeps cardio from getting boring - today is a party after all!
  2. Tonight when you hit the club or bar (or Bourbon Street), dance 40 minutes for every alcoholic beverage you drink. Why you ask? Well number one, dancing is more fun than drinking AND two, dancing for 40 minutes burns about 200 calories, which is slightly more calories than your average can of beer, glass of wine or martini. So, you burn off that alcohol instead of turning it into gut fat!
How many calories will you exercise off on Fit Tuesday, and what unhealthy habit will you give up forever when the clock hits midnight?

I'm going for 800 and KFC.

Enjoy Fit Tuesday!

1 Comment:

debbie said...

i like that yes i will try what u sd i will do at least 3 dif machines . i plan on burning 500 cal and giving up french fries cookies cakes,