AZ Keep Fit Illustrated Activities

Gym, exercise and general keep fit activities in a simple AZ listing.

Some of these keep fit routines and exercises are cunningly designed to be fun.  While your mind is enjoying the process your body feels the benefits.  That is the whole idea behind sport and fitness generally - get moving and gain pleasure from the chosen activity.

You may already be doing some of these activities or there may be the odd one that is new to you.   It is fun to try out different areas and routines to ease some of the monotony that naturally occur with repeating anything regularly.  Maybe one day running, the next day meditation and swimming after that.

They are all fun in one way or another.

Each type of routine or activity has a brief comment and an illustration.  The colourful images are available on tees and other gift product.  Do the routine - wear the tee.

Scroll through slowly and repetitively for maximum aerobic value and remember to hydrate regularly while taking part.
High Energy design features big lettering with a lightning flash background, plus a red

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Body Mind Spirit

A yoga, Biblical or coach style saying - body, mind, spirit encourages us to think of ourselves as a whole.  Mental fitness, physical fitness and yep, even spiritual fitness all add up to the complete person.
Body Mind Spirit design features the words slightly overlapping in various colors with a yogi meditating on the top of them. A peaceful image to emphasize the meaning of body, mind and spirit.

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Bodybuilding

Some stickmen have a problem with body image. Young men feel they need to bulk up and take up bodybuilding to add some weight. What starts as a quest to exercise and keep fit can become an obsession.


​The trick is to judge when muscles look toned and healthy before turning into a muscle bound freak show. Light weights and reps (repetitions) with a day off recovery between workouts is a good way to proceed.


The guys in the design won many competitions by eating chicken nuggets, doing some aerobics and possibly one or two short-cuts. Using cheats is a fast way to ruin your health. Take the right route and feel the benefits. And the burn.


They used to run mail-order courses for bodybuilding. Perhaps they till do.


​Dear Mr. Universe,​

​I have completed your bodybuilding course.

Please send my muscles.

Bodybuilding design features three bodybuilders holding classic pose.

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Fit

Keeping fit is the name of the game.  Feeling good about yourself in mind, body and spirit.

Fit has another meaning too.  If someone "looks fit" they are an attractive person.

So get fit, keep fit and look fit!
Fit design features large fit lettering with vague smile and hair lines to balance the image. If you're feeling or looking fit then go for it.

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Gym

A top New Year resolution and an addiction for some - gym and gym training are a popular hobby.  Various instruments of torture are available - running and rowing machines, weight benches and sadistic instructors.

"Feel the burn" they used to shout out.

​Popular nicknames for gym addicts and workout freaks are gym bunny and gym rat.

Gym memberships are taken out in January, forgotten about by February and left active forever.  This is a major support for gyms who could not survive if everyone either turned up to work out or cancelled their unused subscriptions.
Gym Rat design shows a large hand drawn rat powerlifting a bar with heavy weights. For gym rats and weightlifting enthusiasts.

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Hot Yoga

Hot Yoga is like yoga but hot.

Not hot in terms of fit ladies bending and stretching. although it is that, but hot in terms of the heat in the room.

​The idea being to raise the temperature and allow the body to bend and stretch more.

​Be prepared to sweat!
Drawing of a hot yoga expert demonstrating a pose.

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Hula Hooping

A cheap and fun way to relax and improve fitness is hooping or hula hooping.

The idea is to keep the hoop revolving by shaking, twisting and generally moving your body around.  

​There is a knack to it - a certain wiggle that keeps the thing from falling to the ground.

The lady in the design shows how it should be done.
Hula hoop design shows hooper swinging hoop around. Fun design for hula hooping fans.

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Jogging

A cheap way to stay fit and pass some time is jogging.  Slow-paced running or trotting with headphones, drink and maybe a dog in the park.

​Relaxing and good for you.

Note - small dogs may not be able to keep up.  Large dogs may leave you behind.  Try to match your speed with the requirements of the animal. Cats... forget it.

Pictured below is the Joggernaut - he just keeps on jogging.
A cool jogging design shows a jogger enjoying their regular run. In a fun colorful style, why rush when you can jog?

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Jogging Stickman

When I started drawing it was stickmen. Stickmen doing every thing I could think of. As my skills increased a little I moved on from stickmen. And then some years later I started coming back again.


Here's my Jogging Stickman.

Minimalist stickman jogging design shows jogger with red shoes and waft of hair setting an early morning pace.

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Kettlebells

Medium heavy weights to be lifted and swung providing a gentle but effective workout.

This is not weight lifting but a more rhythmic process which should not result in muscle strain.

A gentle activity often performed in groups during office lunch breaks with an instructor who provides the kettlebells.
Kettlebells design shows an enthusiast holding kettlebell in the swing position. Fun and colorful image for a kettlebell workout.

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Pilates

Similar to yoga, Pilates is a series of positions designed to improve flexibility and muscle conditioning.

Invented by Joseph Pilates - hence the name!

Pilates is a hugely popular exercise and relaxation pastime.  The advanced position in the drawing below is called the "Teaser".
A fun Pilates design shows an expert in the

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Plogging

​Plogging - pick up litter while jogging - is a great way to keep fit and tidy up shared areas. 

​Light litter removal coupled with exercise and socialising - a perfect way to spend a couple of hours outdoors.
Plogging - pick up litter while jogging design

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Skipping

Skipping is a cheap, do anywhere, cardio-vascular workout. 


You just need a rope and some basic coordination.  


​Boxers do it plus other sports people too. 


This is one exercise and fitness regime you can skip to your hearts content. I thoroughly recommend it.

This fun Rope Skipping design shows a skipper doing their exercise routine. Skipping is an excellent exercise, just a jump rope and some basic coordination required. This is one fitness workout you can skip to your hearts content.

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Stand Up Paddleboard Yoga

Yoga on a paddleboard.  For those who find it too easy on dry land.

The idea is the added relaxation of the lapping water and the extra balance required adds to the stress reducing enjoyment of yoga.

Swole Bodybuilding

"Swole" is the act of bulking up, as part of a keep fit bodybuilding regime. Had some fun myself creating the design for this.


Some sweat above a pair of shades indicating work and cool. The word "Swole" with the "o" as a target, because that's what we're aiming for. And a set of weights in the shape of a smile below, because it makes you happy.


Endorphins. And achievement too.

Swole bodybuilding design features some sweat above a pair of shades, the word

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Trampolining

Bouncing up and down on a spring assisted trampoline is great fun for children and a super way to exercise with care.

There can be accidents so understanding the rules and procedures are important for this fast growing activity.

Start off with some gentle bouncing and build up to somersaults.
Trampoline design shows a trampolining expert doing a forward roll in mid-air with knees tucked up to chest. The trampoline is way below and the trampoliner keeps eyes firmly fixed on the eventual bouncing position.

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Treadmill Running Machine

The treadmill is a piece of gym equipment that is used for running in a fixed position.  

Resistance can be set, speeds altered and energy measured.

The endorphins released by exercise balance out the effort, time and cost of gym membership.  

​Running is good for you.
Treadmill Running design features keen runner exercising on a powered running machine.

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Weightlifting

It is amazing that some humans can lift so heavy a weight that the bar starts to bend.


Many of us would struggle to lift the bar alone although we can mostly lift ourselves off the sofa in order to visit the fridge.


Powerlifting competitors can lift their own body weight and then some. Ants can lift up to fifty times their own weight! If there's a message in that I don't what it is yet.


As a youngster I ordered a weight-lifting set for collection from a local store. The weights were in a single box. I had to struggle manfully out of the store trying not to show weakness. Almost put me off the whole business.

No Pain No Gain is a motivational design for weightlifting or any exercise featuring the wording

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Yoga

Yoga is a stress busting relaxing form of physical and mental fitness and flexibility.
Yoga Pose shows person sitting cross-legged with back of hands resting on legs.

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And Relax

Phew. After all that exercise it's time for a rest interval. My recommended method is to watch some healthy sport on the TV, perhaps in a horizontal position with a packet of biscuits.


Created by Mark Ewbie. Last Updated October 8, 2025.