Winter is finally over and here comes the beautiful summer with clear blue sunny skies and a pleasant weather. It’s also the time to enjoy the coastal beach and relishing summer drinks and let’s not forget to mention a hot body that we all yearn for having.
When it’s time to hit the beach and flaunt your curves, we body shame ourselves as the pressure to have the perfect body is really high in summer!
Summer is all about outdoors, adventures and fun activities. But it’s impossible for us, who work long hours to go out and have fun. At the same time, we want a healthy lifestyle to enjoy all the reapings of our hard work and for that exercising and eating a balanced diet is very important.
While it’s quite difficult to have a steady work out during summer due to high heat and humidity, we often strain ourselves a lot in the gym, that can lead to potential health risks.
Hence this summer, its time to not only work out hard but work out smart! Aside from heavy workouts, there are other fitness tips and fun activities that you could add to your list to get that rocking summer body. Let’s see what we’ve on our today’s list.
1. Battling Rope
Skipping ropes and jumping ropes have now become old school exercises. These days, another fun yet tough fitness routine, battle ropes is on the trend. The ropes are super-sized and heavy, that’s best to work on your muscles around arms, shoulders and even your legs.
Starters can work out making basic waves on the ropes and later improvise moving both arms up and down rapidly. Other forms of waves like alternating waves, snakes on the floor, shoulder circles and shoulder press are effective and killer work out trends.
2. Kickboxing
Stressed out? Try kickboxing! Kickboxing is a strength building exercising, most of your lower body parts. It’s also a recreational yet healthy form of workout and definitely something you should try!
It has a number of advantages like the increase in muscle flexibility, blood circulation, stress-relief, muscle toning, defensive exercise, improved body balance and coordination and so on.
3. Yoga
Yoga, unlike heavy duty, exercises and work out sessions, is best for fitness of body mind and soul. The trends of yoga are constantly changing and a bit of stretching is great for your muscle flexibility, balancing your mental and physical health.
4. Cycling
Cycling definitely digs up sweet and fun childhood memories but it can also be a part of your fitness regime. Gather some friends and go for cycling in the woods. This light yet good muscle exercise will boost up your stamina and mental state of being. Health benefits of regular cycling include improved posture and coordination, stress and anxiety reduction, improved joint mobility and muscle flexibility.
5. Rock climbing
This might sound a little too adventurous, but rock climbing is another hottest fitness trends of this year. This daring exercise might intimidate you first but as you go on, it upgrades your inner strength and motivates to conquer the greatest climbs.
It builds muscle, improves body balance and coordination, boosts concentration and brain function, increases flexibility and endurance. A single climb session can burn over 700 calories.
What do you think of these 5 Fitness Trends You Should Try This Summer?
