Best Winter Workouts to Stay Fit, Warm & Healthy During Cold Season

Winter Workouts: Winters are surely a beautiful season, but staying fit and healthy in winter seasons is as important as enjoying fritters on a warm Sunday evening of cold winter. I know, right, that waking up from cosy blankets on the calm mornings of winter seems difficult to execute without hours of procrastination but keeping yourself healthily fit should be your foremost priority and to keep yourself fit and healthy, winter workouts are very necessary for the human body because, along with cosiness, the breeze of cold winter brings a lot of health issues.

Winter workouts help us to fight health issues and protect our bodies from getting infected. Here is the list of best workouts that will help the body in preventing health issues this winter, which includes:

Best Winter Workouts

Brisk Walking 

Brisk walking is an aerobic exercise of moderate intensity. The steps to do brisk walking include:

• Primarily, stand in a resting position and bring your posture in the right manner.
• Your posture should stand tall and you should look forward.
• Your neck, shoulder and hands must be relaxed and free, only your abdominal muscles will be engaged.
• After making your posture accurate, start walking slowly.
• The slow walk will be a warm up walking for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Then, increase your speed by ensuring your pace and walking at a good speed.
• Your walking speed should aim for 100 steps per minute.

The benefits of Brisk Walking include:

• Brisk walking helps in increasing the immune cells and also helps in boosting the immunity of the human body.
• Brisk walking helps in the reduction of high blood pressure and bad cholesterol, that is, low-density lipoprotein.
• Brisk walking helps in strengthening heart health, thereby improving the proper circulation throughout the human body.
• Brisk walking helps in the reduction of the risk of type-2 diabetes, thereby controlling the sugar and increasing the insulin sensitivity.
• Brisk walking helps in burning calories, thereby boosting metabolism and building more muscle mass.

Pilates 

Pilates is a low-impact and full-body exercise. The steps to do pilates include:

• Primarily, take a comfortable yoga mat and lie on your back.
• Perform the phenomena of inhaling and exhaling for quite a few minutes before starting to do pilates.
• Start the pilates by doing crunches.
• In crunches, firstly you will have to lift your neck and shoulders while putting your hands behind the back of your head.
• Secondly, you will have to upwardly lift your knees and fold them, forming a triangle shape through your legs in a parallel manner.
• Then rest in the position of crunches for a minute or two.
• Now, after crunches, comes the single-leg stretch.
• In the single-leg stretch, first you will have to lift your neck and shoulder while also uplifting your knees.
• You will fold the right leg and hold it with your hand while stretching the left leg straight.
• Then, the same vice versa process you will have to do for the left and right leg.
• Now, after the single-leg stretch, comes the double-leg stretch.
• In the double-leg stretch, you simply need to lift both your hands and legs straight above.
• Then rest in the position of the single-leg stretch and double-leg stretch for a minute or two.
• Now comes the hamstring stretch.
• In the hamstring stretch, you will have to lift the right leg straight above by holding from your hands and the left leg folded from your knees.
• Then the same vice versa process you will have to do for the left and right leg.
• After the hamstring stretch, repeat the process of the double-leg stretch again.

Benefits of Pilates include:

• Pilates helps in the reduction of strain from the body, thereby improving the imbalances of muscles and properly aligning the body.
• Pilates helps in alleviating chronic back pains and eliminating the discomfort of joint pains.
• Pilates helps in enhancing the balance and coordination of the body's stability and flexibility.
• Pilates helps in correcting the alignment of the body's posture, thereby improving the body awareness.
• Pilates helps boost energy levels and helps in improving the overall vitality of the human body.

Cardio 

Cardio is a cardiovascular exercise. There are many ways to do cardio. The different ways to do cardio include:

• Cardio can be done with a skipping rope workout. In skipping rope, there’s a rope which you hold and spin and you have to jump each time the rope touches the surface so that you don't get touched in the rope.
• Cardio can be done by spot jogging, that is, jogging spontaneously at only one place without moving forward.
• Cardio can be done by cycling on a spin bike, where you do cycling indoors without moving anywhere.
• Cardio can be done by jumping jacks, where you lift your hands up, stretch your legs and jump, then bring your hands and legs at a resting position, then again lift them up and jump.
• Cardio can be done by dancing, specifically Zumba dance and aerobics dance, which involve vigorous movements.
• Cardio can be done by frog jumping. In frog jump, you put both your hands at the back of your head and you jump by folding your knees and joining both your knees together.
• Cardio can be done by performing burpees. Burpee is an exercise that involves a squat, a plank, a pushup and a jump, all at once.
• Cardio can be done by performing squats. In squats, you lower your hips and transform yourself from a standing position to a sitting position without having something to sit on.
• Cardio can be done by swimming. Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through or under water.
• Cardio can be done through a treadmill as well. Treadmill is a machine which is used for walking or running while staying at the same place.
• Cardio can also be done by stair climbing. Too much climbing of stairs also leads to intense cardio.

The benefits of Cardio include:

• Cardiois very beneficial for cardiovascular health as it helps in strengthening the heart.
• Cardio helps in the reduction of bad low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and high heart rate to a normal heart rate.
• Cardio helps in the increase of good high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, thereby maintaining the right amount of cholesterol.
• Cardio helps in enhancing the functioning of the respiratory system and the proper circulation of blood flow.
• Cardio helps in reducing the risks of heart disease, heart stroke and the chances of hypertension.

These were the ways of managing and balancing warmth along with fitness, but I know you are still lying amidst your cozy blanket so get up now! Do these easy yet effortful workouts because along with enjoying the warmth of winter, you also need to ensure a good health and fitness of your body so these winter workouts are very essential.

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