With proper planning, continuing your fitness program through the holiday season should be a snap, says Strong. Attack your fitness routine aggressively, deciding a week or two before the actual holiday to really go for it, to go the extra mile in your workout, to eat properly. If you know you're going to 'go crazy' on Thanksgiving and Christmas, determine now that you will be good. Then when walking becomes easy, speed walking. He suggests walking as fast as possible, using long strides.
People get so caught up in the fact that it's got to be called exercise exercise is just activity.
Activity is just something you're doing for maybe half an hour, forty minutes, it's getting your heart rate up, you're sweating a little. The key is to do the activity daily, for 40 minutes. After that, you get 25-30 minutes, you're burning fat cells. So anything you're doing, make sure you're doing about 40 minutes of it. And if you're doing that every day for 40 minutes, you will see a change.