Is your cardio workout becoming boring? When this is the case, it gets very easy to find better things to do with your time, such as alphabetizing your CD collection or rearranging your sock drawer. So, to help keep your workout fresh (and actually occurring), try any or all of the following boredom-busting tips.

Change of Scenery. To break up the monotony of a walk or jog on the treadmill, why not spice things up a bit by taking your show on the road? Is there a high school or college track near your house? If so, this can be a great change to your normal treadmill run. And, for those of you who are a little more advanced in your workouts, you should also take advantage of the upright bleacher stairs located at most tracks. Or, if you feel that a track is even more boring than any treadmill or familiar road ever could be, maybe you should try walking around a part of town that you've never really explored. What better way to see a neighborhood than to take a jog through it? Needless to say, you probably don't want to choose the most crime laden area in your town or city -- unless you want to turn your jog into a sprint!!

A Roll of the Dice. To turn your workout into somewhat of a game, you will need to need to have dice on your person during your workout. After you've completed a few minutes of an easy warm-up pace, reach into your pocket and grab those dice. If they equal a number greater than seven, you have to turn up the intensity for the number of seconds equal to the number on those dice (so, if your dice showed 9, you would go hard for 9 seconds). After you've completed the amount of time equal to that of the dice, you return to your normal, comfortable pace for a minute. You repeat this process at the turn of every new minute, and do so in total for an amount of time that you can safely handle. Feel free to have as much fun as possible with this one by making up your own rules for such roll possibilities as two of a kind and snake eyes.

TV Tag. Remember the playground game of tag that involved shouting out the names of television shows in order to avoid being tagged "It?" Well, years later we're still playing this game, only now it is for the purpose of livening up our workouts. To play TV tag in your workout, begin moving at a slow, comfortable pace to warm-up. Once properly warmed, think of a popular television show. Once you've come up with a show, you turn up the intensity a little bit in your motion for ten seconds. Then, you need to come up with the name of a different show by the end of that ten seconds, or else you are "It." If you are able to think of a show, you can reduce your intensity back to what it was before. If not, you must stay at that elevated intensity level until you finally can think of one. This game will start off very easy, but as the time into your workout goes on, you will find it more and more difficult to think of names of TV shows and, as a result, your workout will become more intense. Oh, and just in case you were wondering, this game takes place in your head. If you start running around your gym, yelling out the names of TV shows, the strange looks you get are not my responsibility.

Again, these are simply a few more tricks to employ to make your workout less boring. I will certainly post some more in the next few weeks if you guys would like for me to. In the meantime, feel free to have some fun!!