Fitness and Reading

Here’s How Aria Lost Significant Fat and Defined Her Body

The benefits of audiobooks are invaluable, as evidenced by a friend’s experience that aligns with mine.

The Importance of Using Our Scarce Time

Aria, originally from China and who migrated to Australia in the mid-80s, has been an avid reader since her childhood. Her parents used to read bedtime stories every night.

Apart from enjoying good stories allowing her to improve her language skills, she also fell in love with exploring new ideas in books. However, her busy work schedule prevented her from achieving her full potential for reading.

Aria walks for two hours and does plank workouts for 30 minutes every day like Audrey, as I introduce in this recent story. She leveraged her daily 120 minutes of exercise time for convenient learning by listening to audiobooks during this period.

As I also benefited a lot from audiobooks, I thought sharing Aria’s story aligned with mine would be valuable for my readers who are time conscious.

As her time was scarce, Aria calculated her exercise time to equal 730 hours a year. Then, she thought she could finish an eight-hour book every four days. So in a year, she estimated to complete around 91 books.

This simple arithmetic inspired her to take action to use her exercise time efficiently. She loved exercising and learning new ideas from engaging and informative books. She also loved reading and listening to fiction books as a hobby.

One day in the early 1990s, Aria heard about audiobooks in her public library. They were in cassettes. She borrowed a book in a set of cassettes and got hooked on the reader’s narration.

She consumed all the audio collections in her public library. Then, in later years, she came across CDs and DVDs. They were even more convenient. The entire book was on a single device.

However, in later years, the revolutionary idea came to her when she heard about a book subscription service allowing her to listen to audiobooks via her smartphone app. The company allowed her to own one book per month. However, this was not enough for her. She needed more.

When she investigated, she found several other subscription companies. Interestingly, two of them allowed limitless reading for just under $10. She subscribed to one of them, allowing her to read any book in the library. The subscription company offered around 150.000 books. She then upgraded to a premium service for limitless reading times.

Exercising was critical in Aria’s life as she wanted to keep a healthy weight and a defined body. Walking and planking were the best workouts for her lifestyle. Learning was also critical for her life satisfaction. This simple life hack allowed her to smoothly achieve these two essential goals in her life.

Like Aria, I have been using audiobooks for many years as part of my lifelong learning goals. I learned from books more than from my formal studies. However, audiobooks even expedited my learning process as they were convenient. Like her, during my travels, commute times, and while exercising, I finish listening to over a hundred books in a year.

Reading from a book or from an electronic device requires full attention and a comfortable and quiet place. In my younger years, I was addicted to libraries. However, this addiction led to health issues, increasing my stress. For example, reading paperback books and journals in libraries caused me back pain similar to Audrey’s debilitating condition.

I still love reading paperback books, usually before bedtime, which helps me sleep better. However, I transitioned from reading hard copies to listening to the audio version after the 1990s. They saved me time and reduced the physical stress caused by sitting for extended times. In addition, I can listen to audiobooks while exercising.

Initially, cassettes, CDs, and DVDs were very costly for me. However, the book subscription services allowing me to listen to content from any device, especially via the smartphone, reduced the cost significantly and increased the convenience.

As a prolific traveler traveling long distances via planes, trains, and cars, audiobooks allowed me to consume the desired content timely and conveniently. As a result, over the last two decades, I turned my car and home into a modern library at a relatively low cost with less stress.

Furthermore, waiting in long queues has never been dull for me since I discovered audiobooks I put on my headphones and started enjoying my favorite book while some people get anxious.

I find subscription-based audio streaming services invaluable in speeding up my learning and decreasing my stress. Besides, the subscription model is more economical than hard copy and other media formats like CDs. This simple life hack significantly contributed to my personal and professional development.

Like Aria, I listen to audiobooks while walking every day. I walk around 10,000 steps in good weather outside and complete listening to an entire book in approximately four to five days. I also enjoy planking like her.

Over the years, I subscribed to many audiobook services. Some are more beneficial than others. The best ones I enjoyed were Audible, Scribd, Librivox, Blinkist, Downpour, Kobo, Hoopla, Audiobooks.com, and Google Audiobooks. They all have pros and cons that you might learn by checking their websites.

I also subscribed to several podcasting services such as Apple and Spotify and recently enjoyed innovative and affordable Knowable supported by this platform, allowing me to listen to the voices of inspiring writers whom I follow.

I found Aria’s story inspiring because while she improved her fitness, maintained a healthy weight, and got a defined body by walking and doing isometric workouts, she also increased her knowledge by saving time and money.

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