Saturday 13 February 2010

Get outside and turn your workout into a mind-body-Soul Experience

In a funk because your daily walk on the treadmill event has become a bit 'more exciting than a pot of water to a boil on? If so, maybe it's time to go to the gym to make your store in a safe place and out. Research conducted at the University of Essex has shown that outside the 'exercise has beneficial effects that extend beyond the calories you should burn effects. It turns out that with the nature around spiritual feelings and stimulates the senses and provides an escapeof modern life. This should come as no surprise, but also the outdoor exercise reduces stress, improves concentration and positive impact on health and welfare.

Getting Started: Assessment of Landscape

As you know your environment? At first sight, your neighborhood or the community can not seem to have the same tools and equipment you used to work with the thumbs look a little 'closer, though, and you will see the hills and trees, curbs, stairs,Playgrounds, trails, picnic tables, benches, rocks and branches of large dimensions. The landscape has a lot to do with "equipment" and if so, how do I use the whole world is your gym. Before you begin, spend some time driving around your community or cycling on the extent of training potential. In addition to parks and playgrounds, note, where schools, parks and urban landscapes - these are all viable options for working out. The full exploitation of the landscape andLandscape is not only your heart rev up routine will be charged a mind body experience, involving the senses, as well as the buttocks!

Ten ways to get the most out of Outdoor Training

1. Start close to home. The best choice might be just the neighborhood. My neighborhood, for example, is a train, the environment is on one side, downhill, uphill, on the other. In combination with trees evenly spaced along the way, the set-up is ideal forInterval Training: Speeding jog /, followed by a power walk uphill, or jogging, then lengthen the intervals between the trees, followed by a few lunges, jumping, and / or mix effects.

2. Back to school. The majority of junior and senior high schools are the titles that are available to the public. Quarter-tracks make it easy miles, the distance and also give "more concrete and cement track, reducing the impact on the joints of the legs. The green area in the middle of the track is a greatInstead of agility drills, like running a zig-zag mixes and practice. Use the stairs of the stage and benches for push-ups and dips.

3. Making work of a new adventure. 'S state parks and parks in the metro have a wide variety of hiking trails located within the beautiful scenery that changes every season. If you want to run, get the different terrain to your agility and improve kinesthetic awareness. Some of the hills are rough, the practice of common sense: Be sure to avoid your conditionStumps, rocks and bumps that might stumble, keep an eye out for poisonous plants, like poison ivy, and take the phone with you.

4. The head for the hills. Hills, Runs particular, can really burn on contact. Running hills repeatedly blew up the hill and the work of each of the leg muscles and challenges the cardiovascular system as well.

5. Play as a child. When was the last time the monkey bars? It 'hard! Wear a pair of weightliftingGloves (available in most general purpose stores like Wal-Mart or Target to try) to protect your hands and give the monkey bars too. Ask yourself trying to pull-ups and chin-ups on. Use a low level to reverse lunges leg. Take advantage of the resistance tube with you and structure of the playground to be used as an anchor for the execution of many strengthening exercises, such as, for example, rows, overhead presses and bicep curls. Wants your heart? Take a jump rope with you.

6. Play with your children. 'Ll Earn yourSmoothie afternoon for a game of tag, kickball, flag football or catch with your kids. As an added bonus, children, parents actively typically large and need to be active adults, will be a good example.

7. Basics courtyard Practice. If the garden is like me, probably has some bumps, falls and many small rocks, creating an uneven surface. Attempts to cross the yard plunges. This is a very different experience than they do in the gym on level ground. The unequalChallenges to the surface of the supporting muscles in the thigh, and muscles to stabilize the hip, knee and ankle. How you use your joints and muscles regularly in daily life, it is useful for them in a way that the simulation scenarios challenge. If this option raises the child in you, try crab and walks, Caterpillar push-ups and mountain climbers.

8. Take advantage of your equipment with you. When you have small hand weights, weighted balls, resistance tubes and / orJumping rope, consider with you in the park bench doubles as a weight bench, lattice can jump like a rock for the resistance of the tube and rope are also used, which can be used all over the world and is a fun way, the your heart door to the earthquake. If you do not jumping in a little ', start slowly - 10-20 seconds for beginners. Over time, work up to 2, 5, even 10 minutes. Try your personal best every time lost.

9. Learn something new. Tennis, basketball, swimming, cycling, kayaking,Horseback riding, rock climbing are just some activities you can try too. For something outside the comfort zone is a good way to increase self-esteem. Will certainly meet new people, and you never know - you may discover an inner athlete in you that previously did not even know.

10. Locations and city views. If you live in a metropolitan region that has little space for green living, do not worry - there are still many opportunities out there for work. Take the elastic tube and tieThey have some waste, then head to the next set of stairs to think (in Rocky Balboa here). Shop for the use of a jog, run up the stairs, the railing as an anchor for the tube, then throwing down a set of squats. If there is a nearby hill, try to walk runs up the hill. No railing in sight? Use a tree or even a parking meter. Be creative - which is half the fun! Remember - training is not effective unless it is safe.

Some do and what not to do:

What is the way to the rules. If youwalking / jogging on the street, be sure to walk against the traffic regulations. When cycling, traffic to and be sure to wear a helmet. Stay alert to potential hazards such as rocks and damp stains.
Cover Wear sunscreen - the sun's harmful rays on all four seasons.
Do not visit places that do not know, especially at night.
Adopt a friend, especially if you are in a strange environment.
What now the park. Most parks are off-limits from sunset untilDawn.
Watch the weather and dress accordingly.
Drink plenty of water before exercise, and take a bottle of water.
The shoes, the quality of work you are doing is designed.
Pick up the phone and tell someone where you're working out.

The exterior can do with its varied landscape and natural beauty, more for your body, mind and soul of what we ever imagined. But while there is stillfogged windows of your facility when you access a mile on the treadmill (yawn), you'll never know.

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