No Gym Exercise Strategy

Terpsichore In the Blood

Dancing is one of my favorite activities. When I was a child, I remembered one of our family friends gave me a pet name that roughly translated as "dancing bug" because I loved to dance and would stay on the dance floor at a party and dance till my mother dragged me off the dance floor. As an adult, dancing is still one of my favorite activities. I am one of those people you will see bobbing and weaving to the background music while shopping. 

I love dancing and recently I was going over exercises with a client and she shared how difficult it was to keep her exercise routine while traveling. As she shared all the things she's trying in the effort to keep her exercise routine constant while on the road, I sympathized with the elaborate schemes she had devised and the frustrations they brought each time. I travel often for work as well and I quickly realized that I was not a fan of hotel gyms. By no means am I a serious germophobe, however, I have a little bit of concern with gym equipment hygiene after reading several articles about the hidden cesspools of microbes with certain gym equipment. Moreover, as I shared in another post,  I am not always eager to get up very early, get dressed, go to the gym, exercise, return to my abode to shower and get dressed and then get my day started. So I have gym equipment at home to accommodate my selective laziness. When I realized that I skipped exercises when I travel, I needed another way to keep my routine going. 

So, I shared with my client what I do, even when I am not traveling, that has kept me on the train.  I asked her, "are you an Amazon Prime member?" Her response, "yes."

Excellent! We were golden. With a simple request for her to get out her phone and go to her prime membership page, I showed her the prime feature she was already paying for and not using, "Prime Music." There we found workout music that I encouraged her to use while on the road. Just two days before her and I had the conversation, I was away for business in San Jose and rather than lug resistance bands, ab roller and kettle bells with me, I checked to make sure I had my phone and speakers. From my phone, I simply start Prime music and I dance to various pop artists for 1 hour and 39 minutes in my hotel room. When we downloaded Prime Music to her phone, we quickly jammed to Lady Gaga's "Let's Dance" in the clinic as a sample of what Prime Music has to offer. 

Exercise doesn't have to be a chore or an additional thing to pile into your day. As I am writing this post, my Bluetooth Bose speaker is serenading me to Enya from my Prime Music selections. In the mornings, I enjoy the same at home, dancing to my heart's content or on my stationary bike. I confess, I enjoy the dancing more than the bike so I am sure you don't need to guess which aerobic activity I favor over the other. Moreover, I don't think of dancing as an exercise activity because it is a lot of fun for me and I love to dance. My client also loves to dance and we very quickly realized that we both have Terpsichorean traits that we can call upon to serve the purposes of fun, movement and exercise, especially when we travel. She swayed out of the clinic with smiles on her face, excited to dance. 

I encourage you to check into the uninterrupted dance music compilations via Amazon Prime if you aren't already. Very easily, you can work up some serious sweating and burn some calories.