If you live someplace with a climate that is warm all year, then you probably won’t want to bother reading this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But if you live someplace where snow has begun falling on the ground, and you don’t want to deal with another winter of trying to figure out how to keep all the conditioning that you have built up through the fall months then keep reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are normally someone who embraces the outdoors and strives to improve their endurance, then consider a period where you try to develop your anaerobic abilities. Unless you’re training for the Boston Marathon, rather than beating yourself up by trudging through snow; on days that snow begins to fall, start trying some indoor workouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m not expecting you to hang up your running shoes, but if you want to minimize your risk for injury and avoid overuse injuries, then winter is the time to work on athletic abilities that you’ve been ignoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You don’t have to head indoors right away. You can wait for nature to tell you what to do. Wait for the first day that it snows or it is just really cold, and instead of doing your normal cardio routine, try some calisthenics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As you find it’s more difficult to spend time outdoors, you can keep doing more indoor workouts as a substitute for your cardio routines. When it gets really bad, you may want to just head out once a week or even once every other week for a long walk. Try hiking through areas where the extra snow provides unique challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can progress through your indoor routine by either adding reps to your calisthenics or if you have weights, you can use fewer reps and add weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When it gets warmer out, although you may find that your endurance has depreciated, you might also find that the change in routine has healed injuries and perhaps even prevented injuries that you may have incurred had you not changed to an indoor routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n