Title: 25 Ways Get 10 Mins Of Fitness Exercise-PT#1 Word Count: 431 Summary: Experts recommend working out 45 minutes

to an hour a day (30 minutes for beginn ers) for weight loss and fitness. But if you're like most women, you don't alway s have a block of 30 to 60 minutes a day to devote exclusively to doing your wor kouts. You can still exercise--you just need to sneak in the equivalent in resourceful ways. "The idea is to keep moving," says fitness expert Ann Grandjean, EdD. "Get a cordless phone or put a long cord on your regular phone, and walk w... Keywords: exercise, home trainer, personal trainer, pilates, yoga, myhometrainer.com, ryan george Article Body: Experts recommend working out 45 minutes to an hour a day (30 minutes for beginn ers) for weight loss and fitness. But if you're like most women, you don't alway s have a block of 30 to 60 minutes a day to devote exclusively to doing your wor kouts. You can still exercise--you just need to sneak in the equivalent in resourceful ways. "The idea is to keep moving," says fitness expert Ann Grandjean, EdD. "Get a cordless phone or put a long cord on your regular phone, and walk when you ta lk. Find whatever works for you and just move. Park half a mile from the mall an d walk. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Those little, itty-bitty things add up." Every Stolen Moment Adds Up Lest you think that short bursts of activity have a negligible effect on your fi tness program, think again. One study found that women who split their exercise into 10-minute increments were more likely to exercise consistently, and lost mo re weight after 5 months, than women who exercised for 20 to 40 minutes at a tim e. In a landmark study conducted at the University of Virginia, exercise physiologi st Glenn Gaesser, PhD, asked men and women to complete 15 10-minute exercise rou tines a week. After just 21 days, the volunteers' aerobic fitness was equal to t hat of people 10 to 15 years younger. Their strength, muscular endurance, and fl exibility were equal to those of people up to 20 years their junior. In yet another study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Bal timore found that for improving health and fitness in inactive adults, many shor t bursts of activity are as effective as longer, structured workouts. "It would be useful for people to get out of the all-or-nothing mind-set that unless they exercise for 30 minutes, they're wasting their time," says Gaesser. Breaking exercise into small chunks on your overscheduled days can also keep you r confidence up, says Harold Taylor, time management expert and owner of Harold Taylor Time Consultants in Toronto, who has written extensively on the subject. "Skipping exercise altogether is 'de-motivational'--you feel depressed and guilt y," Taylor says. "If you skip it, you tend to figure, 'What's the use? I can't k

eep up with it anyway.' Yet as long as you make some effort each day, that motiv ates you onward. Success breeds success." Keep in mind, though, that short bursts of exercise are meant to supplement, not replace, your regular fitness routine. Here's a roundup of practical ways to wo rk exercise into your day even when you "don't have time to exercise." (You don' t have to do them all in 1 day; select what works for you.)