Weight loss has become a major concern among most ladies. Between taking care of the kids and ensuring effective management of the family, it seems that we are the most over-weight population. Notwithstanding, most of us have also tried several workout programs, from dancing with Richard Simmons on the TV to registering for a workout program in the gym center.

However, going through the hard work involved with these programs for a few days and watching the response of your body system, it is easy to lose enthusiasm and wonder if a miracle will happen. But all hope is not lost yet. A lot of people have found a great difference between taking a routine workout program and engaging in an effective outdoor activity. While the former will sometimes be boring and render you very weak, the later is all fun, will boost your spirit and you will also enjoy it while you lose a lot of calorie in the process.

Benefits Of Taking Outdoor Activities For Weight Loss

• Outdoor activity is enjoyable: How many of us ladies will prefer locked up in a gym for 2 hours every day to taking a bike ride for a few hours every morning? While staying in the gym seems and is really all hard work, riding a bike, taking a walk or perhaps hiking the mountains with colleagues is effortless, requires less concentration, with little or no rules and yet, you will be amazed how much calorie you can burn by taking few hours to do this on daily basis.

• Effective weight loss and fitness: Losing weight and regaining fitness is a process. This explains why most ladies that have tried to hit the gym with all their strength ended up frustrated and gave up. It takes both aerobic and anaerobic exercises to effectively lose weight and stay fit. While aerobic or cardio activities enhance fat burning, anaerobic activities help to build muscles for both strength and endurance. In a normal workout program, the coach may try to shift or combine programs that involves each of these activities but a normal outdoor activity has all these ingredients in them and will lead to a faster and easier way of burning more fat and building the necessary muscles for fitness.

For instance, you will burn 10% more calorie running outdoors at the same speed you do on treadmill. When you step out in the cold, your body has to burn more calories to keep your internal body temperature at 98.6 degrees and this leads to even 7% more calorie loss. While a 30-minutes walk in the gym will get you stressed and obviously tired, taking a walk in the outdoors for the same period, it is less likely that you will notice any weakness as you will be less stressed.

Fun, Effortless Outdoor Activities For Weight Loss

Bicycling: Riding a bicycle is just as effortless as they look on the TV, on the papers or on the road. While it looks like the rider is just having fun, which is true, it is also a great weight loss outdoor activity. As a general rule, it is easier to start each ride with slow fun pedals; enjoying the sight until the strength builds up in your system, then you can fire it up more. However, you may want to ensure effective breathing when on a ride, when your breathing becomes too labored and uncomfortable, slow down until you have that spike to fire up again.

When to use bicycling: When you want a fun, easy way of burning as much calorie as possible without placing yourself on much pressure or incurring any self pain.

Hiking: Depending on the factors surrounding the individual and how fast she goes, hiking has been proved to burn about 350 to 500 calories an hour. You don’t necessarily need to hike on daily basis and if you feel stressed, which is less likely to be the case, perhaps a 60-minute walk around the neighborhood is enough. However, you may need around 7 hours to lose significant pounds with hiking which you can easily schedule on weekends with some friends or colleagues. Nothing is a more fun way of having a great weekend!

When to hike:  When you want a less regular means of losing weight while combining it with effective diet watch.

Skiing: Skiing works almost miracles for overweight ladies. You can burn around 3000 calories for six hours of skiing. Many people has also lost about 5 pounds in a week, built effective stomach muscles, enhanced their immune system and curbed depression all with effective skiing programs. While skiing is already a fun activity on its own, it is often better to take on un-groomed areas that will make your body work harder and thus use more calories.

When to go for skiing: When you want a more regular means of losing weight that can be done a few hours a day with some other outdoor activities.

 

About the Author

Christy is a mountain biker and a hiker. She writes for OutdoorGearMadness.com a blog that offers Sierra Trading Post Coupon, Outdoorplay Coupon and the latest Rock Creek Coupon. In the blog you can find Reviews, Tips, coupons and promotional codes for outdoor merchants such as Rock Creek, Sierra Trading Post and Outdoorplay.

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