In an earlier episode, we talked about plogging and trashercize, those workouts that involve picking up trash while jogging or walking. Jeannie from Port Wing, Wisconsin, wrote to share another fitness gimmick, the bean diet. Just open a bag of dried beans, toss them into the air, and then squat or bend over to pick them all up. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Bean Diet”
A couple of weeks ago we were talking about plogging, which is running along, jogging, and also picking up trash, and the idea of trasher-cise, which is when people get together and they exercise and pick up trash.
And that reminded Jeanne Perry of Port Wing, Wisconsin, of something that her mother and her friends used to talk about, which was the bean diet, B-E-A-N. And she wondered what the bean diet was. And apparently what you do is you get a bag of dried beans, toss them up in the air, and then bend over to pick them all up. Oh, you take them out of the bag and you scatter them to the four winds. So it’s 500 bean pickup. 500, exactly. It could take a while.
Yeah, either bending at the waist or, better yet, doing squats, right?
Right.
Well, weeding a garden serves the same purpose.
Right.
Yeah.
And then you get beans later.
You get beans later.
