How to Exercise While Standing in Line

Someone here may be exercising.

Standing in line often feels like a huge waste of time. You can instead use that time wisely by toning your body. You can exercise while standing in line with a few simple techniques. If done correction, most people around you will not even realize you are getting a full body workout while they are standing slumped and wasting time.

Instructions

1. Crunch your butt. Tense your butt muscles and hold for a count of 10. Release and deeply inhale and exhale. Repeat eight times.

2. Hold in your abs. Exhale all your breath so your abdomen is sucked in. Hold for three seconds, inhale and roll your shoulders back for another three seconds. Repeat for a count of eight.

3. Work leg muscles. Starting with your toes, tense and release every muscle up your leg until you get to the groin area. Do this slowly so you feel the pull and then release of your calves, thighs and all muscles up and down your legs. Repeat twice.

4. Work upper body muscles. Using the same tensing and release method as you did for your legs, work your upper body. Start at the base of your torso, tense and release through your back, up your arms and end at the neck. Repeat twice.

5. Stand on your toes. This one may tip some people off that you are doing more than standing in line but no one usually cares. Stand with your heels flat and your legs shoulder width apart. Using only the muscles of your legs, get up on your tip toes and hold for three seconds. Come down and deeply inhale and exhale. Repeat eight times.

6. Do shoulder and head rolls. This exercise, too, may give a little hint that you are exercising. Roll your shoulders back for a count of three, then forward for a count of three. Repeat eight times. Once your shoulders are loosened up, move on to your neck and head. Roll your head to the left three times and then to the right three times. Repeat for a count of eight.

Tips & Warnings

• If you are holding packages, put them down between your legs so they don't impede your exercises.

• Some shoes, like those with pointy toes or high heels, will make the tip toe and toe crunches difficult. If you are bored enough and your feet don’t smell, take off your shoes to do these exercises. Otherwise just skip them.