100 Fun Ideas to Get Active

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Sick of your work out? Here are 100 ideas to spice it up. 

1 – Shoot hoops or play a real basketball game

2 – Play on a playground

3 – Take a ballroom dance class

4 – Drop it the club

5 – Take a casual stroll with a friend

6 – Try Zumba: It doesn’t matter how coordinated you are, it’s just an exercise dance party!

7 – Bounce on a trampoline, if you don’t have one, there are trampoline parks. I’ve heard its best to go during the week if you can to avoid too many kids.

8 – Kite surfing: I bought a groupon for this and the intro class is on land, so you can explore this without being in danger

9 – Crochet

10 – Swim

11 – Take a regular yoga class

12 - **Explore hot yoga

13 – Endure a barre class: It is so awesome, but so tough.

14 – **Piloxing: Please comment if you’ve tried, I want to hear about it!

15 – Enroll in a contemporary, jazz or ballet class

16 – Mall walking

17 – Experience a hiking adventure – Make it romantic with your special someone or maybe it could be the next girl’s day out

18 – Horse-back ride

19 – *Bust out the roller blades

20 – Ride your bike

21 – Kick around a soccer ball

22 – Pass around a football

23 – Ultimate Frisbee

24 – Volleyball

25 – Boxing interval training

26-   Play baseball – With just 3 people you can have a batter, pitcher and catcher and trade off

27 – Frisbee golf

28 – Golf, this can be expensive, but maybe you’ve run across some clubs at a garage sale or from a relative. If you have the clubs you can just drive the ball for not a lot of money.

29 -  Tennis

30 – Skate on ice

31 – Challenge yourself with a step class, now there are Zumba step classes also

32 – Play Wii

33 – Check out an exercise home video (some video stores like Family Video let you rent them for free!)

34 – *Tae bo

35 – Beef up and go to a Boot Camp class

36 – *Tae kwon do

37 – Tai Chi

38 – Kickboxing

39 – Water aerobics, now there are even water Zumba classes

40 – Zumba toning, the class I used to take closed, but when I consistently went once a week, after a month or so I could tell I was getting stronger.

41 – *Sports drills, if you were a high school athlete, think about those drills and do them again! It’s fun in a nostalgic kind of way. I never thought I would smile doing a suicide! (Not having a coach timing me certainly helps…)

42 – Get dirty with a mud race; you can walk if you have to, just have fun!

43 – **Color Me Rad 5K

44 – **Zombie Race: Run for your life or volunteer to devour people

45 – Attend a festival, it’s much easier to walk around when there is so much going on

46 – Dance Dance Revolution at an arcade

47 – Relay for Life: Raise money for charity and walk all night

48 – Participate in a Corporate Challenge, sometimes companies compete against each other like an adult field day

49 – Get it on

50 – Do the dance & clean

51 – Garden

52 – Volunteer at a food pantry (those calories really add up when you spend all morning moving food around!)

53 – *Conquer fear and climb rocks

54 –** Parkour!

55 – Stand up and rock out with a guitar

56 – Boche ball

57 – Zumbathon

58 – Interval running (I’m not a fan of running, but I think it can be fun to sprint every now and then. Especially if you allow yourself time to recover before doing it again. You won’t go to the Olympics with that kind of training, but it’s a lot more enjoyable!)

59 – *Canoe

60 –  **Bollywood dance

61 – Snow ski

62 – Snowboard

63 – *Water ski

64 – Paddleboat

65 – *Tubing

66 - *Wakeboard

67 – Bowl

68 – *Snowball fight

69 – Build a snowman

70 – *Build a snowfort

71 – Caroling around your neighborhood

72 – **Karate

73 – Play with kids, if you don’t have any, maybe you could babysit for a friend or start volunteering at church with the kid’s group

74 – *Badminton

75 – Walk around an amusement park

76 – Visit a water park

77 – Jazzercise

78 – Shake it in a dance-fit class

79 – Pop it in a hip hop class

80 – Play ping pong

81 – **Fitness drumming class

82 – Play four-square: I don’t care how old you are, you can bring it back!

83 – Snorkel

84 – **Surf

85 – *Skateboard

86 – Belly dance (there are home videos or a lot of Indian restaurants will have special events where you could try it)

87 – *Irish dance class, or maybe you could find something on youtube

88 – **Tap dance class

89 – **Nordic walking

90 – Float a river, sounds lazy, but intermittent lazy paddling over the course of 6 hours can add up! Try to go easy on the beer : )

91 – Walk your dog, or a friend or family member’s dog

92 – Get spicy with some pole dancing, intro classes are available at many studios now

93 – Spinning class, with the right music and maybe a friend it can be fun…

94 – *Kick-boxing class

95 – Gymnastics, every now and then it’s fun to go to your backyard and just make sure you can still do a cartwheel or a handstand.

96 – Play in the sand, whether that be a sandcastle, jumping, cartwheels, Frisbee or tag, any time you move on sand you’ll burn lots of calories (you may not live by a beach, but there is sand volleyball set up everywhere.)

97 – Hula hoop

98 – *Jump rope

99 – Racquetball

100 – Water games in a pool 

I’ve done a lot of these so I know that these are fun! If they aren't marked, I've done it in my 20s. A "*” means that I’ve done it, but over 6 years ago (prior to my 20's) and “**” means that I’ve never done it.

Let me know if you try any of these or if you have some other ideas for fun movement ideas!