12 WAYS TO GET FIT DONE IN THE SUN

RATHER BE OUTDOORS THAN IN THE GYM? GOOD NEWS – YOU CAN DEVIATE FROM YOUR REGULAR FITNESS PLAN AND STILL HIT YOUR HEALTH GOALS. THIS WAY...

1 TAKE A HIKE

limbing a mountain beats another lap of your local park. But varying the elevation will benefit more than your boredom. While walking uphill replicates moves like lunges, the descent is an effective muscle builder, too – because it’s an eccentric (muscle-lengthening) exercise, the result is muscles braking as they resist the pull of gravity. It’s the same action as lowering a weight to the ground against resistance. What’s more, research from the Vorarlberg Institute in Austria found that the descent was almost twice as effective as the