
Cats are accidental personal trainers
Examples:
- Gabby beggies → squats
- cats supervising workouts
- bending / stretching / chasing toys
If you have cats, you already know.
Sometimes exercise looks like doing squats because Gabby is demanding attention.
Pinball is sneakily active
Includes:
- walking between machines
- standing for hours
- adrenaline raising heart rate
- dancing while playing
And tournaments where people walk thousands of steps.
The coffee walk
My Starbucks walk is the anchor habit.
But everything else adds to it.
The “still counts” philosophy
Movement doesn’t have to look perfect to matter.
Dancing on a sidewalk.
Walking to coffee.
Playing pinball.
Squatting because a cat asked for attention.
It all still counts.
Some days exercise looks like a workout.
Some days it looks like life.

The Starbucks Carrot Method
North Phoenix Walking Series
