Your ‘Clean’ Workout Routine
TURN HOUSEHOLD CHORES INTO EFFECTIVE EXERCISE remember to keep your toes pointed straight ahead and your knees bent at 90-degree angles. • Pick Up: Instead of simply bending over to pick up toys or clothes, do a squat with every item you grab. Remember to use your legs, not your back. You can also do squats while unloading the dishwasher or with any other chore that involves repeated bending. • Wipe Down: Whether you’re wiping windows or scrubbing appliances, do big, exaggerated arm circles until your muscles start to burn and make sure you’re switching arms as you go. • Cook: It’s not cleaning, but it’s still a chore with useful downtime. While food is simmering or thawing in the microwave, do some pushups, situps, or planks to get your muscles moving. You can implement dozens of exercises to turn mundane activities into beneficial workouts. Some chores will burn more calories than others, but every bit of activity helps. Now’s the time to work your way to a cleaner house and a healthier you.
Everyone knows how labor-intensive cleaning can be. A long day of scrubbing down your house is a great way to work your muscles and get your blood pumping, so crank up some tunes, grab a mop, and get ready to transform your cleaning routine into a great workout. To get physical benefits from cleaning, you need to turn up the intensity of your methods. Exaggerate your motions, pick up your pace, and keep your abs tight and knees flexed. Nearly any chore can be turned into an exercise, but here are some ideas to get you started. • Vacuum: Vacuum briskly nonstop for at least 20 minutes, switching arms as you go. For an added challenge, do lunges as you vacuum and O ne of the most important functions of an estate plan is to keep family and heirs informed. Documents associated with any trust that you set up communicate crucial details about your estate, your wishes, and next steps. More than that, they provide stability in a time when stability is very much needed. Think about major life events. Throughout life — in marriage, the birth of a child, buying a new house, retirement, etc. — we have the opportunity to plan and prepare. You go through set processes. Alternatively, there are many other major life events you can’t or don’t always prepare for — accidents, illnesses, and even death. Any of these things can happen without warning and they can leave your family members with no practical way to prepare themselves emotionally or financially. This highlights the importance of trusts and wills. When you have tools like these at your disposal, you put yourself, your heirs, and your other family members ahead of the curve. The end result is less stress and a guiding hand to help family members avoid mistakes that they may regret or may be unable to correct later on. Put Your Family at Ease With a Conversation About the Future
While these tools may be available to you and your family, it’s still important to talk about them at
length before anything happens. Talk about your estate and your wishes with your family before illness, incapacity, diagnosis of dementia, death, and so on. Having this conversation gives your family three primary things:
• Knowledge of your set directives. They will know what you want or don’t want to happen in circumstances surrounding illness or incapacitation. This includes possible do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders. • Knowledge of your personal wishes. This includes what you want after you’re no longer with them, including funeral arrangements, such as burial or cremation. • Knowledge of the location of critical documents. This includes any documentation related to trusts, wills, birth certificates, Social Security information, life insurance policies, investments, and other financial documents. Ultimately, having a conversation about these topics helps ease stress. It puts you and your family in a more secure place before the future arrives, no matter what it may look like.
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