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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Shelling; an Exercise in Green

Exercising in Green

Lunging or exercising in green is achieved through our Inshore Florida Green EcoShelling Tour, while walking the beach line from Casperson’s Beach to the Venice City Pier at Sharky’s. Walking is a cheap and simple way to burn calories and can be done anywhere, as we do out on Casperson’s Beach. With the addition of walking lunges to your walks, reaching out in casting to scooping a shelling shovel, stretches the muscles in ones lower body and increases blood flow to flexibility in the hip flexors. Lunges also strengthen your quads and abs in the process. We begin with a warm up in a medium walk along the beaches edge as we search for washed up teeth and bone for about ten minutes. With your beach scoop in both hands, much like one would hold a baseball bat; reach forward in a digging motion at the lap of the shore while standing with your feet together. As you inhale, take a huge step forward with your right foot. Exhale, and bend your right knee and lower your left knee into a lunge position with your left heel lifted. You can lower your left knee as far down as you want until you feel a good stretch in the front of your left hip. Then inhale as you step your left foot forward to meet your right foot, while pulling the scoop towards you. Exhale as you pull the scoop up and dump the contents onto the sand beside you. Now inhale, and step forward with your left foot. Exhale, bend the left knee and lower your right knee into a lunge. Inhale, and step your right foot forward to meet your left. Then exhale to prepare for the next lunge. Repeat on both sides 10 to 20 times, filling the scoop and dumping. Rest time is now playtime as you sift with your fingers through your pile in search of prehistorically shark’s teeth to bones and shell. Then when your pile is flattened out, it is back to regular walking for another 10 minutes. Repeating the walking lunges to scoops a second time, and then walk for another 10 minutes with a additional scoop to end this eco-friendly hike down the beach in helping you to a healthy fit body and finding some sharks teeth too. $25.00 per person, loaner scoops available along with water and guided tour of beach area. Contact us for more details or our exclusive EcoAngling or EcoSurf Tours…

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