I’ll admit it. Dur­ing the last decade or so, I was one to avoid any­thing really hav­ing to do with exer­cise. Sure I went to the gym, I even enjoyed a few dance classes here and there, but my bi-polar scale made me feel like I didn’t belong at a gym. Look­ing back that was a com­pletely ludi­crous idea, the gym-or rather exer­cise is good for any­one. Regard­less of your fit­ness level. I mean, we’ve all go to start some­where right?

Now, that I am a much health­ier ver­sion of my old self-someone who exer­cises, and who wants to become even more fit, I’ve com­prised a list of what I think are the best ways to fit exer­cise into you life with out actu­ally hit­ting a gym-even if you’re some­one who’d rather not.

1. Move. Move. Move. What I mean by this is when your kids are play­ing with their Wii™ grab a remote and play along with them. If you’ve got a Wii™ fit­ness game use the darn thing. When you park at the super­mar­ket park fur­ther back and walk the extra steps.
2. If you’ve got stairs in your house use them. Set a timer and go up and down as many times as you can dur­ing say a span of ten min­utes. When I first started doing this I could only do three min­utes before I had to stop, now I’m up to five. (Oh, and when you’re going up, clench your butt cheeks together!)
3. Get a bunch of your friends together and go for walks. If you live where it’s antarc­tic right now, you can do this at the mall. Which, is a very stroller friendly place.
4. Bet your kids you can do more jump­ing  jacks than they can.
5. Dance. Dance. Dance. I love to dance. In the after­noons I’ll dance around my liv­ing room with my boys.
6. You know those work out videos sit­ting unused, unopened in your media cab­i­net. Pop one of those bad boys into your DVD player and get moving!
7. Find sup­port online. Join forums, get your online pals to keep you motivated.
8. Clean. Vac­uum, sweep, mop, dust. Make house sparkle. You’ll be burn­ing calo­ries and as an added bonus you’ll feel really good about your home!
9. If you’ve got an indoor swim­ming pool at your local park or Y use it. I love to swim, and wish I could get to a pool. I’d be in one every day.
10. Get cre­ative. Instead of using a your reg­u­lar desk chair when surf­ing online, or at work etc. use an exer­cise ball. At home while watch­ing t.v. stretch, do some arm curls, sit ups etc.

This post was inspired by Twit­ter Moms. This post was writ­ten as part of a con­test, where five blog­gers will be ran­domly selected to win a copy of EA SPORTS Active™ Per­sonal Trainer – the high­est rated Wii™ fit­ness prod­uct to date for use on the Nin­tendo Wii system!