Aging Well with Dave & Peggy

Aging Well with Dave & Peggy

Two Minutes Counts

Jun 15, 2025
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We have a strange habit when it comes to exercise.

If we don’t have 30 minutes, or an hour, or time to change clothes and do a proper workout, we figure we don’t have time to do anything.

That’s nonsense.

You have two minutes.

Stand up. Walk around the house. Go up and down the stairs. Do a few squats while the coffee is brewing. Get down on the floor and get back up again. Move your shoulders. Stretch something that feels like it hasn’t moved since Tuesday.

It doesn’t have to be a workout.

It just has to be movement.

Your Body Doesn’t Know You’re Busy

Most of us spend an awful lot of time sitting.

We sit at the computer. We sit in the car. We sit watching television. We sit scrolling through our phones while wondering why we’re so stiff.

Then we try to make up for all of it with an exercise class three times a week.

I’m a big fan of exercise classes. I teach them for a living.

But your body still has to live through all those hours between classes.

That’s where little bits of movement can help.

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