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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to exercise during your downtime. If you

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Speaker 1: look at even busy schedules closely, there is often some

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Speaker 1: time for physical activity. You just have to use the

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Speaker 1: time when you are waiting for something else. I read

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Speaker 1: this episode on the sidelines of my daughter's soccer practice.

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Speaker 1: The practice was about ninety minutes long, and I watched

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Speaker 1: some of the action at the end, but I spent

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Speaker 1: the first forty five minutes running. There's a lovely trail

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Speaker 1: near the park, and I was able to enjoy some

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Speaker 1: fall wildflowers and a bridge over the Schuylkill River in

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Speaker 1: the late afternoon sun. The rest of the day was

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Speaker 1: packed with work and shuttling kids to and from school,

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Speaker 1: but I saw that I would be at the park

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Speaker 1: for those ninety minutes and that it was a nice day,

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Speaker 1: so I made sure to put on my exercise clothes

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Speaker 1: before going to practice, and my nice run was the result.

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Speaker 1: During the busy years of raising a family and building

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Speaker 1: a career, it can be hard to fit in regular

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Speaker 1: gym trips, but many of us spend an aggravating amount

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Speaker 1: of time waiting for things, waiting for phone calls to start,

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Speaker 1: waiting for appointments, waiting for kids at activities, waiting on hold,

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Speaker 1: waiting for dinner to cook. Sometimes we can't do anything

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Speaker 1: other than scroll around on our phones, but sometimes other

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Speaker 1: things are possible, particularly with some tweaks. For instance, instead

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Speaker 1: of waiting in a twenty minute car pickup line, maybe

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Speaker 1: you could park nearby, walk to the school and pick

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Speaker 1: up the kids on foot. If you get to a

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Speaker 1: baseball field a little early, you could park and walk

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Speaker 1: laps around the neighborhood. Keep some dumbbells in your office

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Speaker 1: and you can do bicep corals while waiting for you're

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Speaker 1: always slightly late client to join that phone call. If

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Speaker 1: your city has one of those smart bus systems where

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Speaker 1: you can see that it is coming in ten minutes,

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Speaker 1: feel free to walk around the block for five. If

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Speaker 1: you are traveling with a companion, you can take turns

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Speaker 1: standing with your luggage while each of you does a

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Speaker 1: ten minute airport terminal walk while you are waiting to board.

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Speaker 1: One of the better innovations of COVID is that a

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Speaker 1: number of physician offices now have you wait outside until

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Speaker 1: your exam room is ready. If the parking lot is

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Speaker 1: somewhere amenable, you could walk until you get that text.

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Speaker 1: As for kids sports games, sure you probably want to

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Speaker 1: see some of the show, but none of this has

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Speaker 1: to be either. Or you can run for thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: and then watch for thirty minutes. You will see a

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Speaker 1: lot and you are modeling that sports aren't just for kids. Plus,

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Speaker 1: I find that I am in a much better mood

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Speaker 1: about kid activities if I can use some of that

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Speaker 1: time for my own pursuits too. So if you are

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Speaker 1: looking to exercise more, look at how you spend your

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Speaker 1: time for a few days or ideally a week, Look

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Speaker 1: at the moments when you are waiting for something else.

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Speaker 1: Think about whether it might be possible to use this

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Speaker 1: time for exercise. If so, you can both increase your

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Speaker 1: exercise time and be less annoyed about waiting time. That

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Speaker 1: is a win on both counts. In the meantime, this

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Speaker 1: is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

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Speaker 1: most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear

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