10 Outdoor Exercises That’ll Crush Your Gym Workout

1. 10 Outdoor Exercises That Are More Effective Than You Think

2. Tennis Tennis is a serious calorie-burner, and calls for repeated bouts of high intensity activity. Tennis also tones the arms, shoulders and back. Tennis burns about 270 calories and improves speed, co-ordination, and balance.

3. In-line skating/ Rollerblading If you’re after a Brazilian butt, rollerblading/ in-line skating is your workout of choice. Rollerblading targets the butt muscles, back of thighs and inner thighs, to firm, tone and tighten, all the while burning a mass of calories. At a brisk pace you can burn about 250 calories.

4. Cycling/ Biking Biking is a simple, fun and effective way to get a great workout. Cycling outdoors also works the glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, shins and calves harder than indoor cycling. Pedal off the pounds by burning about 240 calories, and even more mountain biking.

5. Hiking Another great combination of strength-building and cardiovascular exercise, hiking can burn nearly as many calories as jogging. Hiking works the butt, legs and abs, as well as building cardiovascular endurance. Hiking can burn about 220 calories.

6. Swimming Swimming can be much more than just refreshing and fun, it can also make for an incredible full-body cardiovascular workout that works all the major muscle groups. Swimming can help to tone, strengthen, and condition the body without the jarring effects of other activities. Swimming can burn about 270 calories.

7. Beach volleyball Beach volley makes for an awesome full body workout that targets and tones the legs, arms, shoulders and abs. Beach volleyball burns about 290 calories, which is basically equal to that of running at 5 mph.

8. Kayaking/ Rowing Rowing and kayaking make for challenging cardiovascular workouts. Rowing and kayaking work the arms, shoulders, back and core muscles. Kayaking and rowing burn about 250 calories.

9. Snorkeling/ Scuba Diving Snorkeling and scuba diving offer the benefits of cardiovascular exercise, minus the strain, sweat, stress, and discomfort of a typical workout. This activity will burn a ton of calories while tightening and toning the body. Snorkeling burns about 170 calories per 30 minutes, while scuba diving can burn up to 400 calories!

10. Running/ Jogging It will burn more calories and challenge your muscles more. You can increase the difficulty of your run by planning a route that incorporates flat, uphill, and downhill terrain to stimulate as many muscles as possible. Running burns about 290 calories at a pace of 5 mph .

11. Walking If you’re not a runner or don’t want to be a runner, walking is an excellent way of squeezing in some exercise. You can make walking your main workout or just consider walking a bonus. A brisk walk burns about 135 calories.

12. Research suggests that exercising outdoors is linked with good things such as greater vitality, enthusiasm, pleasure, self-esteem, and lower levels of stress hormone cortisol and less bad things such as tension, depression, and fatigue. Importantly, it seems that if you exercise outside, you’re also more likely to exercise longer… If stepping out is not your thing but you still like running or walking, then get a manual treadmill, which is also cost-effective as it comes cheaper + consumes no electricity and less space occupancy.

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