MORE motivated in the cold months?
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I thought I was the only one! I naturally lose weight without trying in the winter because I skate ski in the mornings with my dog instead of walking (significantly higher calorie burn), and I snowboard as much as possible. I actually have to try to stay strong in the warmer months so I can keep up with my crew snowboarding. I just struggle with this time of year when there is no snow yet (where I live) and it feels like midnight when I leave work so I don't want to go to the gym.
In the few years I've been skiing as an adult, I've passed a skate skier twice. Man, those were great days!
It looks exhausting though.0 -
NorthCascades wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »I lift, but I'm not much of a gym rat regardless of the season. I'm a cycling enthusiast and I hate winter because it's dark in the morning and dark in the evening and cold out on the road. I usually have to force myself to get on the indoor bike trainer during the week and wait until a nice weekend afternoon to do a road or trail ride.
Come up here for a week in January and try cross country skiing. As a cyclist, you'll take to it like a fish to water.
I would really love to go cross country skiing. I've been only one time, when I was around 11. My mom and I decided we wanted to try it so we went to the park and rented skis. We laughed so much because we fell down so much. I'm not even sure if there is a place around where I live now that rents out the equipment like that.
You should make a winter trip out here. We have places to rent gear. One of them has 120+ miles of connected trails. Plenty of smaller ones too, I've heard there are some Nordic areas where you can spend a day on groomed trails and not see another person.1 -
damn I'm jealous. I wish I lived somewhere I could ski.0
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where do you people live where you can just go out and ski whenever? Do you have to go to like a ski resort or can you just go out anywhere and do it for free? I am jealous, we don't get much snow where I live.0
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where do you people live where you can just go out and ski whenever? Do you have to go to like a ski resort or can you just go out anywhere and do it for free? I am jealous, we don't get much snow where I live.
Canada?
Our town is in a valley and does not get much snow in the winter. Not enough to go cross country skiing. But 30 mins out of town and there are groomed trails for snowshoeing or cross country. Or you can hit a ski hill, but I don't downhill.0 -
where do you people live where you can just go out and ski whenever? Do you have to go to like a ski resort or can you just go out anywhere and do it for free? I am jealous, we don't get much snow where I live.
It's less than an hour from Seattle to Hyak, about an hour to Cabin Creek or Crystal Springs. Those are state parks, you pay $80 a year for trail grooming and parking lot plowing, it covers all the state parks that do this.
Leavenworth is about two hours, and a great weekend trip. There's skiing in town and the mountains outside too.
Methow Valley is a five hour drive, I go for my birthday (Dec 21) and spend a week to make up for the drive. I think this is the biggest Nordic trail system in the USA. There's a free shuttle so you can ski one way across the valley and arrive at your car. There are cabins every 5 miles or so through the Rendezvous mountains, you can ski from one town to another staying each night in a different cabin. You can't drive to any of them but if you don't want to carry your gear you can have it snowmobiled in for you. There are a hotels and cabins whose doors open to the trail system. Winthrop's town trailhead is a short walk.0 -
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where do you people live where you can just go out and ski whenever? Do you have to go to like a ski resort or can you just go out anywhere and do it for free? I am jealous, we don't get much snow where I live.
I live in New Mexico. A lot of people don't realize that we get snow here and think we're more like Arizona. Northern New Mexico is more similar to southern Colorado than Arizona. We have mountains abundant here. Ski Santa Fe is a little over an hour drive...Taos is a couple of hours. I can be in Pagosa or Durango, Colorado in about 3 hours. We have a small ski area in the Sandia Mountains just outside of Albuquerque and you can just take the arial tram (the longest in the world) from the base of the foothills to the top of the mountain and the ski area...it's more hit or miss as to whether they will have sufficient snow though...some years are good and some years they don't even open. Santa Fe and Taos are pretty much always good downhill mountains.
As cross country goes, we have some great areas in the Jemez Mountains which is about 45 minutes from my front door. The Valles Caldera in the Jemez is awesome and has miles and miles of cross country trails and snow shoeing trails. There are a number of good trails in Santa Fe as well, just before you get to the ski area.0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »where do you people live where you can just go out and ski whenever? Do you have to go to like a ski resort or can you just go out anywhere and do it for free? I am jealous, we don't get much snow where I live.
I live in New Mexico. A lot of people don't realize that we get snow here and think we're more like Arizona. Northern New Mexico is more similar to southern Colorado than Arizona. We have mountains abundant here. Ski Santa Fe is a little over an hour drive...Taos is a couple of hours. I can be in Pagosa or Durango, Colorado in about 3 hours. We have a small ski area in the Sandia Mountains just outside of Albuquerque and you can just take the arial tram (the longest in the world) from the base of the foothills to the top of the mountain and the ski area...it's more hit or miss as to whether they will have sufficient snow though...some years are good and some years they don't even open. Santa Fe and Taos are pretty much always good downhill mountains.
As cross country goes, we have some great areas in the Jemez Mountains which is about 45 minutes from my front door. The Valles Caldera in the Jemez is awesome and has miles and miles of cross country trails and snow shoeing trails. There are a number of good trails in Santa Fe as well, just before you get to the ski area.
I live in Kansas City. It's really very lame here.
We do get snow, but typically it will warm up above freezing within the next few days and it will all melt. Either that or it will rain and then drop below freezing and then we just have
a sheet of ice on the ground. Also, no mountains anywhere close. I really want to move away from here.1 -
where do you people live where you can just go out and ski whenever? Do you have to go to like a ski resort or can you just go out anywhere and do it for free? I am jealous, we don't get much snow where I live.
I am in Manitoba. Unfortunately, we have snow already. Just enough in the field behind my house to make a trail. That doesn’t usually happen until mid to late December. We were lucky enough to be gifted a homemade ski trail groomer that we pull behind our skidoo so I can make a trail wherever I want. Or I just strap my skis to the skidoo, go for a tour, then hop off and break trail myself. Best kinda workout.
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I'm more focused in the winter months. All of the summer activities have died down other than holidays. All there is to do in Minnesota is to go to the gym and work.
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Yes I find I can eat properly and get fitness in anytime it's not hot or warm.0
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My gym is always outside...
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Y'all are almost, but not quite, making me miss snow. We currently have 35 degree mornings, 70 degree afternoons, and wildfire smoke.0
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Interesting.
You guys are doing great then.
There was just a new study reported that showed that the average person really does slow down appreciably as winter comes on.0 -
My non exercise activity is a LOT higher in the summer & I don't feel like I have time for "working out" at the gym. Come late fall and winter, I struggle with going outside in the cold unless it's absolutely necessary and my general activity level drops like a stone. If I go to the gym to sling around iron and run some intervals I feel so much better, and so I force myself out the door to do that.0
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OldAssDude wrote: »My gym is always outside...
REI used to advertise with a slogan like "nature's gym." They should hire you.1 -
I tend to be more active when it is cooler I loath working out in heat Summer workouts tend to be really early morning and then hide from the intense sunlight heat and humidity.
Draw back of winter is running in the dark after work as it is harder to see where to put your feet, so then I stay closer to town than in spring and autumn. Therefore the latter two are my favourite workout times of the year0 -
NorthCascades wrote: »OldAssDude wrote: »My gym is always outside...
REI used to advertise with a slogan like "nature's gym." They should hire you.
Yeah. I could get a discount on fitness devices and shoes...
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I'm typically more motivated in the colder months, cause I dislike the heat. It's so much more enjoyable to me to workout in cool weather. Autumn is my favorite season! April/May can be tricky and then in the summer when my schedule changes and there's hardly a routine, it can be a big struggle! Definitely hear ya!0
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I do my last race of the year on 4th of July. Then I don't really run much at all outside in July and August. I might run a few 3-4 mile runs on the treadmill during those 8 weeks. Come September, I start picking it up again. Now that it's November, I really, really enjoy my runs right now.0
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OldAssDude wrote: »NorthCascades wrote: »OldAssDude wrote: »My gym is always outside...
REI used to advertise with a slogan like "nature's gym." They should hire you.
Yeah. I could get a discount on fitness devices and shoes...
I have a hiker friend who got a part time job there for the employee discount.
She said she got to talk about hiking all day, but owed them money!1 -
Funny, I am the exact opposite. I prefer to workout when its hot out. I am always out biking and running in the summer when it is 80-95. Now that it is freezing and gloomy out, I haven't done an outside workout in months. I just never want to go out in the cold. 1
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I love the gloom and clouds. I feel so much more energy if I’m not squinting and sweating. The sunlight shuts me right down. I walk outside right up until it’s too icy, ski when the snow is good, and row all the days between. Strength train in the basement where it’s cool. Winter is definitely my most productive season.0
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Yes...I find myself really motivated to run more and longer distances when the temps are between 20s-50s (Farenheit). I do not run AT ALL when it's hotter than 80 degrees outside.
Aside from that, I pretty much hike all year long. My husband doesn't care to do much outdoors when it's in the 90s and above but I like it fine.0 -
I am the complete opposite. I absolutely hate the cold. Don’t get me wrong. I love snowfall but it gets old by mid January. I’ve lived through winters shoveling snowdrifts on my sidewalk taller than me. So much snow in one season it was getting difficult to find a place to put it. I was having to heave it over the already 4+ foot high piles on both sides of the sidewalk......good lord. Sorry about the flashback.
Give me hot and humid weather. I’m working out 4-5 times a week when it’s hot. I’m lucky to be motivated to do 3 from October to May.1
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