The Benefit of Exercising Outside in the Winter.

Exercising outdoors in the cold is great for your mental health.

Our brains bloom when they’re taken outdoors.

There’s been a ton of research done on the happiness-enhancing, stress-busting benefits of time spent in nature.

Sunlight + exercise + nature = a potent, highly-effective, mood-boosting tonic.

So if you don't have a dog, consider taking your workout outdoors, even when it’s freezing outside.

Go for a run or ruck.

Snowshoe.

Ski.

Carry heavy things.

Crawl.

Hang from a tree.

Just move your body outdoors in a way you enjoy.

A few things that can help you doing this:

Dress warmly.

If you associate being outside in the winter with being miserable, it’s probably because you haven’t dressed appropriately for the conditions. If you don layers, and put on toasty gloves, socks, shoes, ect., you can keep yourself quite comfortable. Remember what the Scandinavians say, “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.”

Lay out your clothes.

It is kind of a drag to suit up to go outside in the cold, more so when you have to hunt all over the house for your hat, gloves, jacket, and so on. Remove one inertia-creating obstacle from your workout routine by laying out all the clothes and accessories you’ll need the night before your workout. That way, when you wake up in the motivation-diminishing dark of morning, you’ll have everything ready to put on, and one less excuse to call the whole thing off.

Start small.

It may be hard to will yourself to take an hour-long walk in freezing temps. So shoot for taking just a ten-minute stroll. Every bit helps.

Meet up with a friend.

The accountability of an appointment with someone else will help you escape the seductive embrace of your warm bed and get yourself out the door.

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