Cool Fitness Exercises to Burn the Extra Calories during the Winter Months

by James Spann

Fitness Exercises – Hibernating Like a Bear Don’t Burn Fat

Maintaining an active fitness routine in winter can be difficult. Sitting on the couch under a blanket all winter, won’t burn many calories though. Exercising in the cold makes the body work extra-hard and will help you burn extra calories too. This time of year gives you a chance to mix-up your fitness exercises and get out and enjoy a snowy winter wonder land.

Indoor Fitness Exercises

Jumping Jacks are a great way to get your workout started. If your in optimal shape, start out with 50 jumping jacks to get warmed up. If just beginning an exercise routine, start out with 20. Also, if you have a staircase in your home, walk them often. You can stay active in your home by walking up and down the stairs as many times as you can throughout the day. One more for the home is yoga. Yoga is a great way to stay physically and spiritually fit. You can purchase DVD’s online, or even take a class with a private instructor.

Whole Family Fitness Exercises

Sledding can be a great way to incinerate a few extra calories. It’s also a good way to get the whole family out of the house and sweating. The thrill of gliding down the old sled hill may only last a few seconds, but climbing that hill is great for your heart and lungs. Climbing and walking downhill are also great fitness exercises for your legs.  sliding downhill also utilizes your core muscles to stabilize your body.

Winter Fitness Exercises

It’s very sad, but true. Shoveling and pushing snow are excellent upper body fitness exercises for burning belly fat. Make sure to warm up first. Shoveling a small amount of snow at a time will do wonders for your arms, legs and core. This activity is like doing three or four exercises at once. Keep in mind though, throwing snow to the side or over your shoulder is not recommended. It’s advised that you walk the snow to where you need to dump it.

Fun Fitness Exercises

Here are two more entertaining ideas for fitness exercises to help your and your family to stay fit this winter. It may sound silly, but getting the family together to build a snowman and throwing snowballs are  great ways to connect and burn some extra calories. Building as many snowmen as your family can will guarantee hours of fun and a total body workout at the end of the day. It’s great cardiovascular exercise because staying warm outside is much easier when you keep moving and working your body.

Sometimes no matter what types of fitness exercises some of us do, we need additional help. This is because different people metabolize or burn fat in different ways. Click here to read about how to quickly burn the extra fat that accumulates during the winter months in addition to fitness exercises.