Get Creative

This week, I've been able to fit in a bunch of extra "calorie burns" without even realizing it.  Here's how I snuck up on myself with these fun workouts.

• Saturday I walked around on our campus's golf course for an hour taking pictures of families playing disc golf during Family Weekend.  While it was a leisurely pace, I learned a lot about disc golf and had a fun time meeting the families.  It was a perfectly beautiful day, and I was glad to be outside.
• Amie organized a hike on Sunday to Crowder's Mountain.  We walked uphill in the beautiful woods for an hour, burning calories and taxing our quads, talking about a myriad of things.  Then we got to the top, took pictures and ate a snack.  We climbed downhill for an hour, scrambling over boulders and working our glutes and calves along the way.  Before you know it, we had 2+ of exercise done and lots of good time in the fresh air with friends.
• Yesterday my team had an intramural softball game.  I've never really counted softball as a workout, cause it's just fun.  But each time the ball was hit I would take off after it. I was playing right field and only one ball actually came in my range the whole night, but it's still instinct to move toward the ball.  Plus it was cold, so I had to continually jump around or dance in place to stay warm.  All that stopping and starting burned some quality calories by raising and lowering my heart rate.  
• Today I started a multi-day yard project that got me outside and digging in the dirt.  While I never would've chosen to do this tonight after work if I had the option, it was a beautiful evening to be outside and was better for me than laying on the couch like I wanted to do. 

So, a lot of people think exercise is drudgery.  That it is something to be tolerated or endured. Really, it just takes a little creativity to find activities that you enjoy and that helps your body at the same time. I've even got a few more ideas for fun forms of exercise I'd like to try.  I've never played tennis, but it looks like a wicked good workout.  (Anybody want to loan me a racquet and play with me?)

What are fun ways that you exercise without even realizing it?  Anybody have a sport or activity you want to try but haven't yet?