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Having trouble finding time to exercise? Time to get creative! Here are 30 creative times to squeeze in a workout:

30 Creative Times to Exercise

1. First thing in the morning (Alarm clock workout)
2. A half hour before you normally get up
3. At sunrise
4. Walking your kids to school
5. On the bus / train
6. While commuting (walk, bike, or park farther from the building)
7. During meetings (“Mind if we walk while we talk? It’s beautiful outside.”)
8. At your desk (isometrics or standing while working or one of these: link1 link2 link3)
9. During lunch hour
10. During an eclipse
11. While you’re on the phone (consider cordless, mobile, headset, speaker phone or blue tooth)
12. While waiting for printing, booting, downloading etc.
13. Coffee break or smoke break
14. Immediately after work
15. While watching TV (or instead of, consider walking in place or a treadmill)
16. During commercial breaks (crunches, pushups)
17. While playing with the kids
18. While reading
19. While cooking
20. After dinner
21. During sunset
22. Meeting friends (for a walk instead of lunch)
23. While shopping (keep moving, try window shopping)
24. On a date (go for a hike or a bike)
25. While brushing your teeth (squats anyone?)
26. In the shower (wash vigorously!)
27. In the middle of the night
28. During a meteor shower
29. During a full moon
30. Isometrically flex and contract muscles anytime!

What are some other creative ways to find time to exercise? Please share in the comments!

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The trick to exercising is finding activities that you love to do. To help you achieve that, I listed The 101 Most Creative Ways to Exercise in an earlier blog post. It had some of the most incredible, innovative and outlandish exercises you ever heard of. But then I realized that there are a huge number of more “normal” ways to exercise that are worth listing all in one place too. So now you have two huge  lists  help you find exercises you can really enjoy. Hope they help you finally get an exercise habit, or revitalize your existing routine!

101 Ways to Exercise

1. Jogging
2. Stair climbing
3. Mountain Biking
4. Cross Training
5. Swimming
6. Downhill Skiing
7. Snowboarding
8. Cross country skiing
9. Golfing (walk don’t cart)
10. Basketball
11. Soccer
12. Football
13. Lacrosse
14. Badminton
15. Water polo
16. Volleyball
17. Tennis
18. Shoot hoops
19. Yoga
20. Tai Bo
21. Tai Chi
22. Kick boxing
23. Aerobics
24. Bowling
25. Martial Arts
26. Learn Self Defense
27. Race Walking
28. Marathoning
29. Half Marathons
30. Ultra Marathons
31. Triathlons, biathlons, decathlons, pentathlons
32. Mini-triathlons
33. Exercise biking
34. Rowing machines
35. Skiing machines
36. Doing step exercises
37. Stability balls
38. Joining an adult athletic team
39. Interval Training
40. Fencing
41. Surfing
42. Boogie boarding
43. Snorkeling
44. Scuba Diving
45. Baseball
46. Softball
47. Cricket
48. Wakeboarding
49. Windsurfing
50. Mountain Biking
51. Table Tennis
52. Hiking
53. Backpacking
54. Walking the dog
55. Horseback riding
56. Water aerobics
57. Rollerblading
58. Roller skating
59. Playing Frisbee
60. Skateboarding
61. Jump roping
62. Treadmilling
63. Stationary biking
64. Stair climbing machine
65. TV exercise shows
66. Exercise videos
67. Parking on the far side of the parking lot
68. Step exercises
69. Canoeing
70. Rock Climbing
71. Beach Volleyball
72. Mall walking
73. Jumping Jacks
74. Pogo Sticking
75. Scooter riding (unmotorized obviously!)
76. Cleaning
77. Aikido
78. Judo
79. Jujutsu
80. Wrestling
81. Kung Fu
82. Fencing
83. Boxing
84. Kung fu
85. Capoeira
86. Karate
87. Kickboxing
88. Taekwondo
89. Rugby
90. Gymnastics
91. Hockey
92. White Water Rafting
93. Badminton
94. Racquetball
95. Squash
96. Hurdles
97. Track and Field
98. Sailing
99. Telemark Skiing
100. Race Walking
101. Plain-old WALKING (probably the best workout for most people)

Curious how to get involved in some of these sports? Check out the post: “25 Ways to Learn How To Do Anything“.

Now pick a couple of these exercises that seem intriguing and set a goal on GoalTribe to investigate them and try them out! GoalTribe guides you step-by-step through making a goal plan, building motivation, getting accountability partners online, tracking your progress and overcoming all obstacles to success.

If you have any exercise ideas we left out, please add them in the comments.

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If you don’t exercise regularly, it’s probably because you haven’t found an exercise that you truly enjoy. That’s partly because we keep hearing about the same old types of exercise over and over again, but there are hundreds of ways to get regular exercise. Here are 101 different creative exercises that will suit every type of circumstance and personality.

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Take a look through the list and pick several exercises that sound like fun. Consider whether you prefer to be indoors or outdoors, like to engage your mind or just bliss out, be social or be solitary, and any other insights you have about what you enjoy doing.

(Also see the 101 More Classic Ways to Exercise.)

1. Juggling
2. Stunt pogo sticking
3. Tree climbing
4. Mountainboarding
5. Unicycling
6. Practicing Jedi Skills (the Jedi Workout)
7. Walking on water
8. Picking up litter around the neighborhood, town, park or beach
9. Playing video games (Wii, Dance Dance Revolution, etc.)
10. Fruit picking (not too slowly!)
11. Volunteering (Try fitness oriented charities)
12. Fire juggling
13. Drumming
14. Bouncing with Spring-Soled Shoes
15. Sex
16. Ropeless jump roping
17. Sit and Be Fit
18. Kite Surfing
19.  virtual horseback riding (or iGalloping)
20. In the nude
21. Pogo sticking
22. Parkour
23. Tricking

24. Punching and kicking your way through your favorite action flick
25. Dancing your way through your favorite musical
26. Hula Hooping
27. Playing tag
28. Joggling (juggling while jogging)
29. Roller Hockey
30. Roller Derby
31. Leaf pile diving (includes raking!)
32. Gladiator Workout
33. Finding online workout videos
34. Wearing weight loss shoes (or sandels)
35. Playing capture the flag
36. Water balloon fights
37. Snowshoeing
38. Bicycling on Water
39. Squirt Gun Fights
40. Pillow Fights
41. Underwater Rugby
42. Underwater Soccer
43. Synchronized swimming
44. Hop scotching
45. Riverboarding
46. Marco polo
47. Slip and slide
48. Playing touch football
49. Snow kiting
50. Giving the dog a bath

51. Miniature Golfing
52. Baton Twirling
53. Sledding
54. Hacky Sacking
55. Making snowmen (BIG ones!)

56. Building snow forts
57. Walking in place while watching tv
58. Boot Camp Workout
59. Swimming with Porpoise Flipper
60. Learn Self Defense
61. Geocaching
62. Orienteering
63. Window Washing
64. Cleaning the garage
65. Clean the attic
66. Landscape the yard
67. Doing laundry
68. Trampolining
69. Inflatable jumping castles
70. Swinging
71. Playing Twister
72. Cheerleading
73. Canyoning
74. Bouldering
75. Snowkiting
76. Skysurfing
77. Belly dancing
78. Circus Skills (Look for circus schools)
79. Gardening
80. Riding a Scooter

81. Clubbing
82. Walkling (juggling while walking)
83. Poll dancing
84. Street luge
85. Arm wrestling
86. Stability balls
87. Rock Climbing
88. Sandboarding
89. Sea Kayaking
90. Ice climbing
91. Exotic Dancing (link 2)
92. Laughing (laughter yoga)
93. Karaoke (with a lot of dramatic dance moves!)
94. Dodgeball
95. Frisbee Golf
96. Ultimate Frisbee
97. Long boarding
98. Car washing for charity
99. Beach combing
100. Sand dune climbing
101. Samurai Sword Classes

Even More Creative Ways to Workout

1. Hot tub treadmilling
2. Body Juggling
3. Wave Jumping
4. Stationary bike racing
5. Extreme clowning
6. Composting
7. Mountain Unicycling
8. Extreme clowning
9. Reality TV Workout
10. Exercise in pill form

11. Exercising on art
12. Punk Rock Yoga
13. Equestrian Yoga
14. Tangolates
15. Unicycle Trials
16. Mongolian Wrestling
17. Sumo
18. Laser Tag
19. Paint Ball
20. Airsoft
21. Outrigger Canoeing
22. Creeking
23. Surf Kayaking
24. Dragon Boat Racing
25. Bicycle Polo
26. Ice Yachting
27. Land Sailing
28. Free Running

Now pick some of these exercises that sound fun and try them! Or dream up your own exercises now that you’ve got the idea.

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