Are you looking for a way to combat the holiday weight gain that starts on Halloween? (The media will make you believe that holiday weight gain starts on Thanksgiving, but it actually starts on October 31). Don't believe me? Check out the calories of all of the candy that you are stuffing in your mouth. It just gets worse as the holiday season gets closer with Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah and New Years parties. The average person consumed between 2,500 to 3,000 calories and over 140 grams of fat in their Thanksgiving meal. Between Thanksgiving and New Years Eve most adults will gain pounds with all the parties and celebrations. On January first most American’s will begin the New Year exercising and dieting to lose the extra weight gained in the holidays. Yet, most fail and before the end of January they have given up. So, don't wait for the New Year to begin your New Years Resolutions and lose the holiday weight.
Halloween is a time where we buy pumpkins and carve them into Jack-O-Lanterns. Instead of throwing out the Jack-O-Lantern after Halloween why not use it as an exercise tool. You heard of Pumping Iron the documentary on Bodybuilding that made the future governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger) famous. Now I’m going to introduce you to Pumping Pumpkin. Grab that Jack-O- Lantern and exercise with it like a medicine ball or a kettlebell. Don’t worry if you threw away your Halloween pumpkin you can use your Thanksgiving pumpkin to Pump Pumpkin. So, no more excuses if your fitness center is closed for the holidays have fun training at home with your pumpkins and the good part is that you can also cook it and eat it latter.
Pumpkins are hard so you can do any exercise with it that you can do with a medicine ball. You can do sit ups, squats, lunges, presses, push ups on it and numerous compound moves. They come in numerous weights and sizes. If the steam is still attached to the pumpkin you can do one handed kettlebell like moves such as presses, snatches, clean and press and even bicep curls.
Pumping Pumpkin can become a fun holiday family tradition. Instead of watching sports and playing video games this holiday season your family can stay fit while having fun Pumping Pumpkins. This Holiday season you don’t have to look like Santa Clause get fit and fearless by Pumping Pumpkins.
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