Mixing up your routine and incorporating outdoor workouts into your fitness plan is a great way to help you achieve your goals. But how do you stay motivated and bursting with energy outdoors and in different surroundings to the gym? It’s simple. Creative outdoor exercises can help keep you engaged and entertained. You’ll be working out without even realising it and your body will be thankful for it. Read on as we reveal our top creative outdoor exercising techniques including; park workouts, HIIT, hill sprints and more.
Outdoor exercising
Everyone knows that running is not for everyone. As running involves switching off from the fact that you are actually running, it is difficult to get into the running mindset and carry on from long periods of time if you are not used to it.
However, there’s loads more other exciting creative outdoor workouts that will help you burn those calories and get those muscles working whilst actually enjoying yourself, you’ll be glad to know. Whilst the UK still has many Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in place and gyms have been closed for a long period of time, many people have been switching their workouts to the great outdoors and we’ve got so many ideas to share with you that will make exercising fun and definitely not boring.
Creative outdoor exercising techniques
Here are our top 4 creative outdoor exercising techniques, be sure to give them ago and find out which workout is for you!
- Hill sprints
- Bodyweight park workouts
- Outdoor HIITS
- Skipping
Hill sprints
If long, outdoor runs are not your thing, hill sprints could be a great option for you – especially if you want to burn body fat. Find a local hill and simply sprint up it a fair amount of times and slightly jog back down again. As running uphill works a whole host of muscles and your bodyweight works against gravity, this will help increase your cardiovascular fitness levels and also work all those muscles in your body.
This type of hill sprint exercise is a form of HIIT training too. HIIT stands for high intensity interval training, with short sprint bursts followed by short recovery periods, this is a great way to exercise and also mixes things up from the traditional workouts.
Bodyweight park workouts
As personal trainers have been having to diversify and carry out outdoor training sessions opposed to indoor, you might have seen a few personal trainers training people in parks and in other outdoor settings. This is a great way to utilise the current apparatus surrounding you and make workouts that little bit more fun.
Why not try finding a park bench and practice sit ups, lunges and tricep dips to name a few. Benches are a great natural apparatus that can assist your workouts. But make sure you only use park benches that are fully attached to the ground for safety reasons.
You might also feel a little silly doing bodyweight park workouts, but a top tip from Personal Trainer Ben Wood from FORM Manchester is to set yourself a goal before working out, this way you’ll focus on the goal and not on others passing by.
Outdoor HIITs
HIIT is a fabulous form of exercise, especially when the weather is nice. Either performed in your garden, indoors or at a nearby park, within a HIIT you generally perform a range of bodyweight exercises, although weights can be incorporated.
Why not check social media for a HIIT from a personal trainer that you can follow? We’ve seen so many personal trainers produce IGTV’s and other workouts for everyone at home to follow during this difficult pandemic.
Skipping
Skipping wasn’t bound to the playground at school and many fitness fanatics and personal trainers incorporate skipping into workouts. As a great way to also test your hand/eye coordination, skipping can help you burn loads of calories and it also makes something different to running on the spot or doing high knees.
As a skill to be mastered, why not set yourself a mission for you to learn how to skip if you don’t already? Also as a great form of exercise that can be completed whatever the weather, even if it is raining, simply find some shelter and practice skipping.
Get outdoor exercising
Many of us have been introduced to the great outdoors during the pandemic and as outdoor exercising is a great way to get fresh air and also burn calories, outdoor exercising will help you meet all of your fitness goals. Not only will your physical health feel the benefits from this outdoor exercising techniques, your mental health will reap the rewards too. Each time you exercise endorphins are released which boost your mental health. Outdoor exercise is an all-round feel good thing to do!
Pandemic or not, we say that outdoor exercising should be here to stay! What do you think?
