If the standard exercises aren’t your cup of tea, try some of these and burn up a few calories.

• Beating around the bush — 75 calories
• Jumping to conclusions — 200 calories
• Climbing the wall — 150 calories
• Passing the buck — 50 calories
• Throwing your weight around — 50 to 500 calories, depending on your weight
• Dragging your heels — 175 calories
• Making mountains out of molehills — 500 calories
• Adding fuel to the fire — 150 calories
• Tooting your own horn — 25 calories
• Looking over the fence at the greener grass — 1 calories

Adapted from Caballero Club Insider, quoted in Prokope, Vol. No. 3, July-September, 1997