Top 5 Tips for Winter Exercise
Often times the seasons dictate what we do for exercise. When it is nice outside people tend to move their workouts outdoors and take advantage of the warmer weather. Around here you see more people boating, golfing, biking and doing triathlons.
But when the weather gets cold we move indoors and get in more of our gym-based workouts. I'm not saying that's the way it should be, only that's what many around here tend to do.
Even though we may move indoors for a lifting workout there are still somethings we can do outdoors and can actually only be done outdoors in the winter. Consider the outdoor skating rink downtown. Or going up to the ski hill. Going snowshoeing, tabogoning or even just going for a run and you can see that cold weather doesn't have to mean all activity stops.
If you're going to do some exercise this winter make sure to check out the following video where I give you a number of tips for going outdoors this winter for some activity.
Now there was one more tip I didn't cover in the video that I want to share with you. And this has to do with supplementation. If you're in the habit of taking omega-3 (which I think is a great thing by the way) you don't want to jump up your dosage too much during the winter months. Especially if you plan on going up to the hill. Here's why.
You see omega-3 has blood thinning properties which is part of the reason it is effective in lowering blood pressure in some. In the winter however the relative humidity is much lower than in the summer.
Basically warm air holds more water than cold air. So in the winter our tissues lose water to the environment as we have a higher humidity than the external environment.
So as our tissues our going to be more susceptible to losing water and omega-3 will thin our blood we may have an increased chance of having nose bleeds. Compound this with the thinner air found at altitude on a ski hill and the chance increases more still.
Not the end of the world. But given the choice most are going to choose to not have a nosebleed.
As you continue on with your winter exercise remember to keep the tips mentioned in the video in mind to have the safest, most enjoyable experiences possible.
Chris okanaganpeakperformance.com 'always moving forward'
But when the weather gets cold we move indoors and get in more of our gym-based workouts. I'm not saying that's the way it should be, only that's what many around here tend to do.
Even though we may move indoors for a lifting workout there are still somethings we can do outdoors and can actually only be done outdoors in the winter. Consider the outdoor skating rink downtown. Or going up to the ski hill. Going snowshoeing, tabogoning or even just going for a run and you can see that cold weather doesn't have to mean all activity stops.
If you're going to do some exercise this winter make sure to check out the following video where I give you a number of tips for going outdoors this winter for some activity.
Now there was one more tip I didn't cover in the video that I want to share with you. And this has to do with supplementation. If you're in the habit of taking omega-3 (which I think is a great thing by the way) you don't want to jump up your dosage too much during the winter months. Especially if you plan on going up to the hill. Here's why.
You see omega-3 has blood thinning properties which is part of the reason it is effective in lowering blood pressure in some. In the winter however the relative humidity is much lower than in the summer.
Basically warm air holds more water than cold air. So in the winter our tissues lose water to the environment as we have a higher humidity than the external environment.
So as our tissues our going to be more susceptible to losing water and omega-3 will thin our blood we may have an increased chance of having nose bleeds. Compound this with the thinner air found at altitude on a ski hill and the chance increases more still.
Not the end of the world. But given the choice most are going to choose to not have a nosebleed.
As you continue on with your winter exercise remember to keep the tips mentioned in the video in mind to have the safest, most enjoyable experiences possible.
Chris okanaganpeakperformance.com 'always moving forward'
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