Exercise to beat the stress and anxiety surrounding paruresis is nothing new, but the way you go about it can be. Lifestyles have changed dramatically since the days of extended workouts with long jogs and even longer weight lifting sessions.
We’re lucky these days if we have time to breathe!
Keeping our modern lifestyle in mind, Zen Habits blogger Leo Babauta devised a slate of suggestions for getting enough exercise to help keep you fit and free of stress that increases your shy bladder symptoms.
He has four suggestions in all, and we’ll share one that particularly fits the modern lifestyle:
“Distributed. Everything is out there in the cloud these days, not just on one server but distributed across many,” Babauta explains of the computer realm. “But when we schedule a workout, we schedule it at just one time. So 1990s. Instead, do bits throughout the day, distributed among all the other little tasks you’re doing. Do some yoga sun salutations in the morning, a bit of walking or sprinting on the way to work, some bodyweight exercises at your desk (or in front of your living room couches for us work-at-home bums), some basketball or walking/running with friends after work, some chin-ups at home in the evening. It breaks up all the sitting you usually do, which is a good thing.”
So stand up and get with the chin-ups! And check out the rest of his tips while you’re at it.
Read full article: http://zenhabits.net/fit13/
