Cold weather days are quickly approaching and will be with us for the rest of the upcoming winter. This means people’s physical activity and fitness life will be affected by various aspects of wintertime.
From numerous holidays, parties, a lot of food, snow days, and extremely cold days, wintertime is a challenging time of the year to maintain and achieve fitness goals.
Even though cold weather and parties might decrease your ability to do fitness activities outside and do more vigorous workouts, it is crucial to not give up and continue with a goal in mind. Kain Martin, Personal Trainer at UNO said that one has to see it (regarding wintertime and fitness) as a “maintenance instead of an improvement phase.”
Working with what you have is also very important in order to keep your fitness life active. Skyler Brooke, Assistant Director in Campus Recreation at UNO’s HPER said, “Control what you can control,” “you can’t control the how cold it is outside but you can control what you are doing.” Brooke argues that there are a various basic body weight exercises that you can do at home that help maintain your positive body image and physical activity.
In hand with this, there are plenty of apps and websites that can guide you through different exercises you can do indoors during the winter.
“Staying in shape isn’t the hard part, starting your routine back up is the hardest thing you ever gonna” Martin, K.
Martin says another important aspect is to see the wintertime as a phase of maintaining what you worked for, instead of a time to improve considerably due to some limitation for the time frame.
Lastly, food will be available in various forms and recipes throughout wintertime due to holidays, and it will represent a challenge you normal diet. Aside from following your diet vigorously, Brooke recommends to have a large glass of water and eat a lot of vegetables.
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