Welcome to Day 16 of my Healthy Living 30 Day Challenge, created to support my Yoganudge Facebook group.

If you’re a member of my Facebook group, I hope you downloaded my self-study tutorial 21 Days of Yoga (which is free for my FB group members) and have started a regular yoga practice in the comfort of your own home.

Here’s my tip for today:

Find some sort of exercise you can do from your own home.

It’s great to belong to the Y or a gym, where you can work out on professional exercise equipment and even sign up for regular exercise classes.

But, if you’re like me (I work from home as a writer, blogger, and writing coach), you can’t always find the time during the day to get out of the house and go to the gym.

So, it’s much better to figure out a way to get some regular exercise from the comfort of your own home – or at least from your own yard.

Here are a few ways you might do that:

1. Jump or twist.

A mini-trampoline is a fun way to get some regular exercise.

Plus, jumping is said to aid the lymphatic system, and a mini-trampoline is small enough to fit in most any room.

To use it, all you need to do is turn on some music and start jumping.

Don’t have room for a mini-trampoline?

Then try a twister exercise disc and twist your way to fitness.

2. Walk.

Walk around you house.

Walk around your yard.

Take a short walk around the block or around your neighborhood when you have a few free minutes.

You can even set a goal for yourself of a certain number of steps you want to take each day and program those into a FitBit to see if you make your goal each day.

I live on the 3rd floor of a condo complex, so I like to walk up and down the stairs for about 15 minutes for a short workout when I don’t have the time to walk on the beach (my favorite place to walk).

3. Garden.

Working in the garden can be wonderful exercise with an added benefit – you end up with a beautiful yard or a nice garden, whether that garden is a vegetable garden, an herb garden, a flower garden, or a combination of all three.

Pulling weeds, mulching, and planting flowers, bulbs, or seeds burns calories, gets you moving so it lubricates your joints, and it keeps you flexible.

4. Dance.

Dancing is a fun way to exercise that doesn’t really feel like exercise.

Plus, it lifts the spirits and it’s easy and convenient.

Simply turn on the radio and start moving, or plug into your iPod or find some videos on youtube that feature some peppy music or great dance moves you can follow along with and dance your way to fitness.

I like to check out the videos at the Fitness Marshall channel on youtube.

5. Practice Yoga.

All you need to practice yoga in your own home is a yoga mat (and some yoga blocks are helpful, too).

But it’s more fun if you also have some relaxing music.

You might also darken the room and light a candle or burn some insense.

Click here for a short video with a yoga routine for beginners.

6. Work out with Dumb Bells.

Grab a pair of dumb bells and do a few bicep curls while you’re watching television (you do have a pair of dumb bell, don’t you?).

So, that’s it for today.

Better get moving!

Suzanne Lieurance
yoganudge.com

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