Fit TV material? Don’t know but I love it! You have to try it! It’s the funniest workout ever and provides some amazing results. Laughing…that’s it, really! Laugh, giggle, snicker, whoop, chuckle, crack up, snort, and crow off calories! Check out this laughter data, it’s awesome!
Laughing occupies, give or take, about 8 hours of my workday (seriously) which generally lasts 12 hours. That’s about 1/2 of my awake time which is about 1/3 of my 24 hour cycle; I know bla-blabble but wait. With today’s averages I’ll live for 70 years which gives me 2,920 hours of laughter per year and approximately 204,400 hours of gut busting, abs burning giggles in my life time! Awesome! Well I thought since I’m going to be laughing…a lot; maybe I should investigate the possible fitness benefits of so much foolishness. I’ve never regretted a moment of pure gut busting laughter. I welcome it on a daily, even hourly basis so let’s take a closer look at fun and fat burning.
Ten to 15 minutes of laughter can increase energy expenditure by 10 – 40 calories per day which will burn up 7 chocolate Teddy Grahams, or 2 Hershey’s Kisses. Hmmm, this is no joke... and by my calculation that’s 32 Hershey’s kisses I can burn by giggling. A real pile of goodies for just laughing! I’m not saying you can run out and kill the pizza buffet but you can sure laugh off a chocolate bar every now and then. Here’s the catch for all of you wanna be comics out there. It’s probably not you that makes you laugh so get out, get crazy with friends, and do some stupid stuff on a regular basis just in case you’re missing out.
Here’s some more fun news! Studies show that Laughter may reduce stress by increasing the body’s secretion of growth hormone, which has a positive effect on immunity and of course longevity. It also reduces the release of Cortisol (The stress hormone) which weakens the immune system. Laughter decreases blood pressure, increases muscle flexion, improves the heart’s muscular functions and possibly wards off disease; enough? I know right, works for me.
Ok, ready for some Thanksgiving cardio:
- Go buy a turkey
- Take a drink of whiskey (scotch) OR JD
- Put turkey in the oven
- Take another 2 drinks of whiskey
- Set the degree at 375 ovens
- Take 3 more whiskeys of drink
- Turn oven the on
- Take 4 whisks of drinky
- Turk the bastey
- Whiskey another bottle of get
- Stick a turkey in the thermometer
- Glass yourself a pour of whiskey
- Bake the whiskey for 4 hours
- Take the oven out of the turkey
- Take the oven out of the turkey
- Floor the turkey up off of the pick
- Turk the carvey
- Get yourself another scottle of botch
- Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey
- Bless the saying, pass and eat out
See, you just burned 5 calories!!!
Ok folks; its time for my workout so I’m going to watch “Caddie Shack” for the 300th time and then maybe get in a little “Vintage Mitch Headberg” to cool down. Sound ridiculous?? Not so much LOL!
