Home Workouts To Keep Your Body Fit During Winters

As bone-chilling cold continues to grip most parts of North India along with toxic air, stepping out for workout has become a challenging task for many. It is of paramount significance to remain active during winters when most of the people tend to put on weight. During winters love for food rise sharply and people often gorge on fried food with heavy intake of tea or coffee to keep them warm and comfortable.

In such scenarios, workouts often get missed. During such time it is ideal to begin with home workouts to remain in shape and healthy. Below are some simple exercises that you may start with for burning off calories effectively and efficiently:

Squats: You can start your exercise routine with squats. It has emerged a useful lower-body exercise that can be beneficial for your calves muscles, hamstrings, quadriceps etc. It will also keep your core engaged.  The exercise has been effective in building huge strength in the legs, improves balance, boosts flexibility, increases calories burn, and improves posture. It can also improve bone density. Squats can also strengthen supporting muscles, bring down risk of injuries, and tone your lower body.

Planks: It is yet another effective exercise that can build your core strength and helps in improving posture. It helps in alleviating backache by stabilising your spine. It offers benefits such as improved metabolism, relief in stress, better joint health, and increased athletic performance. The exercise has gained popularity as full-body workout without the requirement of any equipment.

Glute Bridges: The yet another popular home workout can be glute bridges. It can boost your glutes, hamstrings, and core. It helps in improving the balance, posture, lower back pain by activating the posterior chain and offsetting impacts of longer sitting. It is a useful exercise if you suffer from back pain and knee pain due to longer sitting hours. It can tone your buttocks and improves the athletic performance. It stabilises the spine and improves knee pain by improving femur control at buttock.

Mountain Climbers: It is full body workout that can enhance the cardiovascular health and core strength. The workout helps you become more agile during harsh cold as it can engage the core, shoulders, legs, arms, and glutes in a simultaneous manner. It helps in improving balance, endurance, and ideal for toning your muscles. It helps in increasing the heart rate for fat loss.

Some other key tips to keep your winter weight under control:

According to Dr Pratima Sharma, Senior Consultant-Internal Medicine, Max Multi Specialty Centre, “Come winter, come weight gain. Are you also feeling so? May be because of the festival season, you may have eaten lot of sugary, sweet things and carbohydrates. Or perhaps due to the winter, you are not able to go out much may be because of the poor air quality or those chilly mornings and evenings. It could also be that your metabolism has slowed down, your cortisol and melatonin levels have changed."

So what do we do to avoid gaining too much of weight and stay active?

You can start keeping yourself adequately hydrated, include plenty of green leafy vegetables and soups in your meals. You have to increase your physical activity whether indoors or outdoors, whatever is possible. Avoid alcohol as much as possible, refrain from smoking. And, keep your food portions under control, take care of your health during this winter and avoid gaining too much weight to stay fit and healthy, added Pratima Sharma.

Disclaimer: This content is for general informational purposes only and should not replace professional medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider with any questions about your health or treatment options.