Considering all that has happened this year, it is a wonder that Football games are even HAPPENING! But your favorite teams are suiting up and Football is back on TV!

Rather than just have your butt hug the couch while stuffing chicken wings, chips, and beer down your gullet, a fantastic way to enjoy your favorite sport AND turn it into a healthy activity at the same time is by completing COMMERCIAL BREAK WORKOUTS! All you have to do is choose some exercises that you will do during the commercial breaks. IF you commit to it and stick to you, you may find yourself in MUCH better shape when the Football season is over!

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

Planks a lot - Simply perform a high or low plank during the commercial break. Aim for longer and longer planks, and pretty soon, you will be planking the entire break! (you can also swap out for shorter duration side planks and other plank variations as well)

Push it, push it real good! - Just pushups! Knock out as many as you can, rest 10 seconds, then continue. Keep “score” and try to beat your total number every time you watch a game!

Full Body Football Fitness Fun - Combine a few exercises together in a CIRCUIT and knock out as many rounds as you can during the commercial break and again, keep score and try to beat your number of rounds for each subsequent commercial break. For instance:

5 pushups

5 squats

10 jumping jacks

REPEAT!

Another excellent way to enjoy your football game while rocking out that bod is to create a GAME out of the game! Simply assign a particular exercise and number of reps to something that happens during the game, then each time it happens, you get to work! Here is an example of how you can set this up:

First down squats - Every time your team gets a first down, perform 10 squats

Pass completion pushups - Every time your team catches a pass, knockout 5 pushups

Touchdown burpees - Every time your team scores, knockout 15 burpees!

Either of the above techniques can turn a regular old football game get together into some muscle blasting FUN! (IF you can find the friends who will join you!) You can use any exercises you like, and if you have friends join you, you can use the exercises as PUNISHMENT, so for instance, when YOUR team scores, THEY have to do the burpees and vice versa. That adds a bit of insult to injury but will make the game more interesting no matter who wins! Come up with your own variations and COMMIT to make exercise a part of your football fun, and you will emerge from the Superbowl a fitter version of yourself from when the first kickoff happened months before…GO FOR IT!