close Video ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-hosts try a rowing workout Row House lead coach Monique Lonergan walks the ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-hosts through a rowing workout. For those who do not enjoy working out in a gym, choosing to exercise outdoors can make a great alternative. To get started, build on what you enjoy.
If that is hiking or biking, take longer walks and rides until you’re comfortable being active for about 45 minutes. To stay motivated and consistent, it can be helpful to recruit an exercise buddy and get appropriate clothing that will keep you warm and dry in inclement weather. Between the sweat smell, fluorescent lights and omnipresent television screens, April Herring has never connected with going to the gym.
Instead, she runs, bikes, hikes, plays tennis, pickleball and football — anything to get her exercise outside as often as possible. "Fresh air, sunshine, the variety of the trees as the seasons change," said Herring, an administrator at Carroll Community College in North Maryland. "There’s something about the energetic healing quality of nature.
" GET THIS FITNESS GEAR THAT’S ACTUALLY COMFORTABLE TO WORKOUT IN The health benefits of spending time in nature have long been established, and exercise in general , of course, improves physical and mental well-being. Combine the two and you double down on what adults need to stay healthy, said Debbie Rhea, professor in kinesiology at Texas Christian University. "We’ve got to get outside.
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