Children the Calorie Burners



Yesterday I was sitting back and pondering about how a each day of last one month passed– it goes like this – The alarm goes up, into the kitchen, make some sandwiches,  into gym cloths, wear your shoes and in no time I am in the gym working-out, noting down the calories and feel bit happy if the target figure is achieved. 

 

Then rush to the shower , into the office attire and there you are in the office between the pile of papers to be sorted out, and I start tackling them as if an unseen  magic wand has been working on me.

Back home running after the children tracking out what they have been doing during the day and most of the time with the question mark in the place of halo.

I am sure this would be the story of many of the working mothers.  Then I thought why not change this question mark to a halo and become a complete angel to your child for a day.  So the week end morning me and the child were up with full vigor, into the kitchen made few different DIY flavored water, cut some fruits and veggies, packed the bag and left to the beach.

While in the water, I got to hear a lot of stories which otherwise I would not have had time to hear.  Not TV, no “WHYs” only a listening with undivided attention.  A real quality time with your child.

Now let me do justice to the Heading of this article. While listening to the child’s story you can do the following:

-          Set a small challenge of jogging in the water from one point to another. Try to move a little faster than the kid so that she is eager to catch up with you. You stop and wait for them with an open arm and they come running to you. Make it a game and a few such jogging will get you burn more than 100 Calories in 15 minutes since you are also wading  though the waves and water.

-          Tread water while listening to the stories – This is a full-body workout that involves movement from every major muscle group, there is potential for significant Calorie burn. A 180 lb. person like me will burn approximately 817 Calories while threading water for about an hour and if I do it a bit slow about 327 Calories.

-          Rowing on the board – about 302 Cal per hour

-          While you do the above you are pulling and pushing the child and this will burn about 250 Cals more.

-          Run errands – you burn about 280 Cal per hour

Also you can burn few more calories by getting involved in some more activities like -

-          Jumping the waves – every time the wave come jump over them.

-          Running before the waves.

-          Dig and make puddle of water in the sand and have fun hopping in it until it dries

-          Do some sand crafts

Before you leave collect some shells and stones for craft and painting for the rest of the week.

WOW ! what a SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT, for both you and your kids.

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