Health Matters During the Winter Months

Winter months can be dreadful and miserable. Maintain a healthy attitude, and keep your mentality motivated with exercises. During the winter months, cold air has a drying effect, which increase the risk of dehydration. In turn, dehydration easily leads to frostbite. Don’t forget to drink plenty of liquid. Keep yourself in shape with these activities for both indoor and outdoor enthusiasts.

Indoor Activities

The calories is based on a person at 130 pounds, and doing about 15 minutes of workout. You can add another 15 minutes if you want to burn more calories.

1. Swimming laps at hotels, school, health clubs, or parks and recreation centers, and burns 117.94 calories.
2. Walking at the local malls burns 103.19 calories.
3. Create a home gym with dumbbells, exercise balls, hula hoop, and jump rope. These activities can easily burns around 73.71 calories each.
4. Running up and down stairs burns 221.13 calories.
5. Yoga and Pilates are great for indoor exercises, burning 58.97 calories.
6. Dancing in general burns 66.34 calories.
7. Sweeping floors, or carpet sweeping burns 36.85 calories
8. Washing dishes, standing, burns 33.91 calories.
9. Running or jogging at a local gym burns 103.19 calories.
10. Playing casual racquetball burns 103.19 calories.

Outdoor Activities

Dress in layers of clothes that is appropriate for the activity you choose. Don’t forget hat, mitten, and scarf . The first three activities the calories is counted at one hour, and the rest are at 15 minutes.

1. Sledding can burns 485 calories in an hour.
2. Making snowman burns 277 calories in an hour.
3. Walking through the parks burn 526 calories in an hour.
4. Ice skating in general burns 103.19 calories.
5. Cross country or snow shoes walking burns117.94 calories.
6. Sledding or tobogganing burns 103.19 calories.
7. Skiing in general with light effort burns 103.19 calories.
8. Snowmobiling burns 51.60 calories.
9. Moving ice shanty, drill holes, or setup burns 88.45 calories.
10. Ice fishing for 15 minutes burns 29.48 calories.

Tone up your body with a daily exercise routine. As you can see, there is an activity for everyone. Household chores such as vacuuming, laundry, groceries, and cooking can burn load of calories. Keep yourself motivated during the winter months. Go outside to enjoy the sun and fresh air. They will elevate your moods and raise your energy levels.