Staying Fit During the Break

Adam Vickers
Sports Editor

EE“ year around this time,
when we hit the holiday season,
we stuff ourselves full of Christmas
goodies. Everybody has those
Christmas parties they love to
attend, the Christmas cookies we all
enjoy, and those warm Christmas
drinks that heat your hearts on
those cold winter nights. How then,
do you enjoy all that the holidays
have to offer while staying fit? Well,
you are in luck, as there are many
ways to stay fit over the winter
holidays, and all it requires is that
you get off the couch. This article
looks at a number of ways to get
out and enjoy the holiday season
while maintaining that chiseled
physique you have worked so hard
to keep over the semester.

Let’s begin; the first thing you can
do to stay fit over the holidays

is helping others shovel snow.
Shoveling snow is that task that
everyone hates to deal with during
the winter, but, when you get down

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to it, it has to be done. You don’t
have to stop at just shoveling the
snow on your driveway - offer to
help others clear off a local rink,
or shovel at a local senior’s house;
it can go a long way to helping out
the community and your health.

Another thing you can do to stay fit
over the holidays is get out of the
house and enjoy the snow. Often,
we spend way too much time hating
the snow because it sucks to drive
in, finds a way to make everything
wet, and can sometimes just be
plain miserable, but it doesn’t have
to be. There are tons of ways to get
out and enjoy the snow, from skiing
local hills to finding any kind of hill
to go sledding on.

An activity that can be fun in the
snow, but does not require hills,

is snowshoeing or cross-country
skiing. Snowshoeing and cross-
country skiing are great activities
to enjoy during the winter; they are
quite the strenuous activity and are
a lot of fun to learn. Snowshoeing

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and cross-country skiing uses a lot
of energy to keep your balance,

as well as using a lot of energy in
general just to move. Attempting
one of these activities will goa
long way to keeping that weight off
during the winter and staying fit.

The previous activities may be a bit
extreme to stay fit, but there are
still a couple of things you can do
if those activities are not possible
or are a bit out of your comfort
range. The best things you can do
throughout the winter holiday

is to get out and do ANYTHING.
There are tons of festive activities
out and around the town where
all it requires you to do is show
up. Although these activities may

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not be the most active, it gets you
out and about walking. For the
average person, inactivity is the
biggest reason for gaining all that
holiday weight, and getting out and
walking around can do wonders for
keeping those winter pounds off.
Just dealing with the cold alone can
spike your metabolism because of
the extra energy it takes to keep
your body warm.

Really, it doesn’t take much to stay
fit over the winter holidays and
still enjoy all that the holidays
have to offer. What it comes down
is eating right and staying active;
accomplishing both will make it
easy to stay fit as well as enjoy the
holidays.

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