How to Make Jogging Fun

Jogging is a great way to lose weight, strengthen your cardiovascular system and stay fit. However, many people find it boring. Because of this they often find it difficult to motivate themselves to go out for a jog. By taking a few easy steps you can ensure that your exercise routine is interesting, and will be more likely to complete it.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Always jog outdoors. Running on a treadmill or inside on a track will get tedious fast. By exercising outdoors, and changing up your route, you will always have something interesting to look at while you jog.

2. Pace yourself with other joggers. If you workout in a area frequented by other joggers, try to catch up to someone ahead of you.

3. Time your jogs. Instead of just running aimlessly, use a stop watch to gauge the amount of time you take to complete a route. The next time you try the same path, try to improve your previous time.

4. Plan time for sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups and dips. Sit-ups and push-ups require nothing but a flat space, but pull-ups and dips require some extra materials. When you start of for your run, set a goal, such as 20 pull-ups, 50 sit-ups, 50 push-ups and 60 dips, that you want to get done during the run. While on route keep an eye out for a tree branch to do some pull-ups, a bench to do some dips, and a few flat areas to do push-ups and sit-ups. Not only will these exercises break the monotony of your jog, but constantly looking out for areas to work-out will occupy yourself as well.

Tips & Warnings

• No need to do all of your upper body work outs at one time. If you are running in a public park, there will be lots of areas for dips, push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups.

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[mkowalski99]

on 5/21/2009 Good info.