10 Exercises To Do While Brushing Your Teeth
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10 Exercises To Do While Brushing Your Teeth

Feeling the lazy, dark, cold, fall mornings coming on? Ya, me too. As if getting a workout in wasn’t hard enough. These exercises make it easy to get in a little fitness with your fresh breath.

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10 Exercises To Do While Brushing Your Teeth
1. Wall sit

Stand about two feet in front of a wall and lean back against it. Slide down until your knees are at about 90-degree angles, make sure your knees don’t go past your toes. Hold until you’re done brushing your teeth!

2. Sit Backs
Stand a foot or two in front of a chair, couch, bed, bench, (anything you can sit on) and literally sit down, and get back up. Keeping feet slightly wider than hips, weight in the heels, chest up, core and glutes engaged and really sitting back into the seat squeeze that booty to get back up. Repeat until two minutes is up!

3. Lunges
Step forward with your right foot far enough so that when you bend your right knee, your thigh can go parallel to the ground and your knee can be at a 90-degree angle and your knee doesn’t go past your toe. Balancing on the left ball of your foot behind you, bend both knees to lower and straighten to lift back up. Repeat this way for one minute and then switch to left foot in front for the second minute.

4. Twisting High Lunge
Set up like you are going to do a lunge with right foot forward. Slightly bend the back left knee as you tuck your tailbone under and square your hips and straighten and press your back left knee back into the floor to get a deep stretch in your left groin. Twist with your left arm over your right bent knee to face the right. Hold for one minute and switch sides.

5. Calf raises
Standing, transfer your weight to the balls of your feet and stand on your tippy toes and lower back down. Repeat.

6. High leg holds
Lift your right leg straight in front of you as high as you can and hold it for 30 seconds, switch to left leg and hold it in front of you for 30 seconds. Lift your right leg to the right and hold for 30 seconds, switch to left leg and hold to the left for a final 30 seconds.

7. Half V-sits
Sitting on your bed or in a chair, or even on the ground, keeping your legs in front of you and your chest up, just lift and lower your legs, contracting your core. Bend or straighten the knees. Repeat.

8. Hamstring Stretch
Lift one leg onto a desk, counter, toilet or windowsill, and lean into it to stretch out your hamstrings. Hold for one minute and switch legs.

9. Quad Stretch
Balancing on your left foot, grab your right foot with your right hand and bring your ankle to your booty, pointing your knee to the ground, keeping knees together. Hold for one minute and switch legs.

10. Twisting Hamstring Stretch
Standing up, bring your right leg in front of your and grab the outside of your right foot with your left hand and twist to the right while balancing on your left leg and trying to straighten your right leg. Hold for one minute and switch legs.


There you have it. 10 easy exercises that I love to do while I am brushing my teeth. Now what’s your excuse?  No toothbrush? … ew…

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