Health Matters During the Winter Months

Winter months can be dreadful, and miserable. Maintain a healthy attitude, and keep your mentality motivated with exercises. You don't have to do extreme sports to keep in shape. Your exercises can be as subtle as yoga, to washing dishes or just doing laundry standing up.

During the winter months, cold air has a drying effect, which increases the risk of dehydration. In turn, dehydration easily leads to frostbite. So don't forget to drink plenty of liquid. Keep yourself in shape with these activities for both indoor and outdoor enthusiasts.

Indoor activities

Below, calories are counted for a person at 130 pounds, and doing about 15 minutes of workout. Add another 15 minutes if you want to burn more calories.

- Swimming laps at the pool burns 117.94 calories. Indoor pools can be found at your local high school, health club, recreational center, and the YMCA.

- Walking at the local malls burns 103.19 calories.

- Create an inexpensive home gym with dumbbells, exercise ball, hula hoop, and jump rope. These activities can easily burn around 73.71 calories each.

- Running up and down stairs burns 221.13 calories.

- Yoga and Pilates are great for indoor exercises, burning 58.97 calories.

- Dancing in general burns 66.34 calories.

- Sweeping floors, or carpet sweeping burns 36.85 calories

- Washing dishes, standing, burns 33.91 calories.

- Running or jogging at a local gym burns 103.19 calories.

- Playing casual racquetball burns 103.19 calories.

Outdoor activities

Dress in layers of clothes that are appropriate for the activity you choose. Don't forget hat, mitten, and scarf. Also, keep yourself well hydrated to avoid frostbite.

- Sledding can burn 121.25 calories.

- Making snowman burns 69.25 calories.

- Walking through the park burns 131.5 calories.

- Ice skating in general burns 103.19 calories.

- Cross country or snow shoes walking burns117.94 calories.

- Tobogganing burns 103.19 calories.

- Skiing in general with light effort burns 103.19 calories.

- Snowmobiling burns 51.60 calories.

- Moving ice shanty, drill holes, or setup burns 88.45 calories.

- Ice fishing for 15 minutes burns 29.48 calories.

While your body is moving and active, you will not only lose the calories, but you will also feel much healthier. What best is that it only takes 15 minutes to do one activity. Incorporate different activities throughout the day so you can keep the winter-blue away.

Tone up your body with a daily exercise routine. As you can see, there is an activity for everyone. Household chores such as vacuuming, laundry, groceries, and cooking can burn load of calories. Keep yourself motivated during the winter months. Go outside to enjoy the sun and fresh air. They will elevate your moods and raise your energy levels.