With the recent cold snap, people's enthusiasm for exercise seems to be cooling down. The number of people in urban parks, which were commonly seen by athletes, has also decreased significantly. It is not easy to lead your body to exercise in the cold.
In fact, outdoor exercise can be restricted for reasons other than cold. Outdoor exercise plans are often frustrated due to summer heat, anxiety about COVID-19, heavy rain, and heavy snow. In this case, it is helpful to know indoor exercise methods that are as effective as outdoor exercise in terms of health promotion. Find out three indoor exercises that you can take care of your health without going outside.
1. bare-body squat
For modern people, whose lack of muscle strength has become common, any part of muscle exercise has a positive effect. In order to significantly increase muscle mass, bare-body exercise, which mainly uses large muscles such as thighs, is desirable. A typical example is a bare-body squat. It is also suitable for increasing the amount of thigh and hip muscles, which are the largest muscles in our body, and for building core strength. If you have knee pain when doing squats, you may sit down to a depth that does not hurt and then stand up repeatedly.
2. indoor bicycle
It is one of the representative indoor aerobic exercises that can minimize joint congestion. In particular, unlike outdoor bicycles, it has the advantage of being able to exercise for a long time while looking at tablet pads. Unlike treadmills, there is little possibility of conflict due to noise problems between indoor floors.
Applying the "interval training method," which repeats pedaling at maximum speed for several minutes, turns it into high-intensity aerobic exercise. In this case, it can be expected to have as much effect as outdoor exercise, such as improving insulin function, reducing body fat, and improving cardiopulmonary endurance.
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3. Dancing
The dance of shaking your body to the music is also one of the strict indoor exercises. In particular, dance has the advantage of using the muscles of the whole body evenly, unlike other exercises. Since cooperation between various muscles is required, my ability to control my body is also improved. In fact, the British Heart Foundation pointed out that dancing for 30 minutes for five days a week greatly reduces the risk of heart attack.
Writer: Yeyoung Jeon
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