It's really cold out, I wanna walk but..HELP ME

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  • Sweet_Potato
    Sweet_Potato Posts: 1,119 Member
    These days I've really been into Bikram (hot) yoga for obvious reasons, and, somewhat couterintuitively, swimming laps.
  • Cberg9
    Cberg9 Posts: 123
    My face starts hurting. -___- I enjoy walking usually, since my neighborhood is beautiful this time of year and I have time to listen to my music. BUT DAMMIT ITS SO COLD. Any ideas what I should be doing? I don't have any exercise equipment, just moved here. And I have a couple of exercise videos but I'm not very fond of them. I try to do yoga every day for twenty minutes as well :)
    What do you do in these harsh winter months?
    go to www.bodyrock.tv
    those are all the in home work outs you will ever need!
  • mikey1976
    mikey1976 Posts: 1,005 Member
    you can do a verity of things skipping, jumping jacks, push ups, squates, lunges, crunches just be creative
  • JamCubeChi
    JamCubeChi Posts: 378 Member
    You could try an indoor walking program like Leslie Sansone DVD's she has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 mile walking programs-dont need a lot of space to do it either. You can check Target if you live close to one or there is a website called collagevideo.com where you can get them and check out various programs before buying. Good luck-I feel you pain with the cold.:flowerforyou:
  • thaiska
    thaiska Posts: 1
    Im on the same boat - love walking to music. I can still do it - Im in Toronto but its not very cold plus i like walking when its cold... Problem is that walking is a really inefficient way of burning calories. Walking for an hour and a half is probably like 30 mins of an intense workout (making up the numbers but im sure thats not an absurd guess).
    Anyway, Ive just discovered burpees - on the body rock site (by the way thats a really good one and if you dont have the equipment improvising is no issue).
    Burpees are when you jump up high reaching to the sky, then immediately fall down squatting and when youre close to the ground you shoot your legs out behind you in plank or pushup position. then you do one pushup (or not) and pull your legs back in in one swift motion and start over. YOu should do a couple of sessions lasting 30 seconds in which you do as many of these as fast as you can (always swift motions with good posture). Look up a video of someone doing them.

    Anyway, thats def been a great alternative I found. Theyre hard to do but since its simple and repetitive i find it pleasant to not have to think about it or plan a whole routine. Def something you should incorporate to a whole fitness routine, but doing just the burpees should make a dif.

    Hoep this helps
  • CurryGirl89
    CurryGirl89 Posts: 21
    Move it Phoenix :) its a nice 65-70 degrees everyday in the winter here!
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