{"id":387,"date":"2011-06-01T19:17:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisabravermoss.wordpress.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2022-06-07T20:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:30:37","slug":"how-to-stay-trim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisabravermoss.com\/how-to-stay-trim\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stay Trim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A recent article in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, \u201cFidgeting Your Way to Fitness\u201d (May 11, 2011), suggests that \u201cincidental\u201d physical activity, such as drumming your fingers against your desk top in frustration, can burn calories and help maintain or augment your physical fitness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is great news to those of us whose primary form of exercise is hunting and pecking, wrinkling our noses, rolling our eyes, and shaking our heads at how bad something looks on the page when it looked perfectly fine yesterday.\u00a0 Writing is a lot of work, my friends, and it\u2019s nice to have this officially recognized by sports and exercise researchers normally concerned only with silly matters like the cardiovascular benefits of cross-training for marathoners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But\u2014what if you can\u2019t get to the gym, and you <em>also<\/em> can\u2019t seem to get any writing done?\u00a0 Are you simply out of luck, fitness-wise?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Suppose, just hypothetically, that your hip has finally given out.\u00a0 You\u2019re largely housebound, and you need to go in for a big surgery.\u00a0 With your physical activity significantly curtailed, there\u2019s nothing much you can do besides sitting around with your laptop\u2014which would seem like the ideal opportunity to, say, start working on that other novel.\u00a0 Yet you find yourself shockingly unproductive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not only can\u2019t you go for a walk; you also can\u2019t seem to manage the aerobics of hand-wringing as you confront a draft or, worse, a blank page.\u00a0 How, oh how, are you to maintain your waistline?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is where abject terror can be a lifesaver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Turns out you don\u2019t need to flutter your fingers as you try coming up with a nice metaphor for that one pesky paragraph.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to mop your brow, rethinking that clunky sentence with the weak verb.\u00a0 Instead, simply work yourself up into a frenzy of anxiety over impending events.\u00a0 Tighten your stomach muscles into an obstinate tangle, and voila\u2014abdominal fitness!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also known as isometric exercise, this technique can be applied in many other parts of the body with equally silhouette-flattering results.\u00a0 Sit in the wrong chair and get some lower back tension going.\u00a0 Develop a case of temporo-mandibular joint disorder.\u00a0 Clench your fists.\u00a0 Clutch desperately at your chest.\u00a0 Look, I\u2019m not recommending rigor mortis, but rigor vitae happens to be great exercise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh, and don\u2019t forget about the lungs.\u00a0 Say you\u2019re headed for surgery kicking and screaming\u2014but, having had to give up kicking lately, you\u2019re increasingly reliant on the vocal component.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it reassuring to know your physical fitness can be enhanced by a little, um, musical expression?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you insist on considering the eardrums of others and still wish to exercise your lungs, hyperventilation is definitely worth a try.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYou\u2019re nice and slim,\u201d your surgeon tells you, explaining that this will make his job easier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI\u2019m nice and slim while unconscious,\u201d you correct him.\u00a0 \u201cWhen I\u2019m awake, believe me, I\u2019m a big fat pain in the neck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And you whip out your list of questions, and try not to be too obvious about pulsing in agitation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Published in the <em>Piedmont Post<\/em>, June 1, 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Please visit www.lisabravermoss.com.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the New York Times, \u201cFidgeting Your Way to Fitness\u201d (May 11, 2011), suggests that \u201cincidental\u201d physical activity, such as drumming your fingers against your desk top in frustration, can burn calories and help maintain or augment your physical fitness. 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