SNOWBOARDING

Snowboarding is an increasingly popular winter sport that offers a number of health benefits. Even if you’re not the most proficient snowboarder, you can still enjoy cardiovascular benefits and burn calories. Plus, being outdoors helps to reduce anxiety and can benefit your mental health. Snowboarding is an aerobic exercise that offers an intense cardio workout and helps burn calories.  The average person burns up to 450 calories per hour, so it’s a great way to lose weight and increases your endurance. When we are on the board going down it works out all the major muscle groups in your body and even works some muscles that we may not use often, like the ones in our feet and ankles. We use our quads, hamstrings and calves to ride the snowboard, but upper body does get into the package as well. It even works the muscles of the arms and shoulders, which are used for balance and to pick ourselves up when we fall. Snowboarding significantly improves overall flexibility, as it requires you to change directions and pace frequently and suddenly. Also requires good balance, so our balance will improve as we grow more proficient at the sport. It also strengthens our ability to concentrate, as we learn to pay close attention to the changes in the snow.

If  you’d like to try snowboarding or skiing more regularly I recommend going to some of the UK’s indoor slopes. It’s awesome! Whilst indoor ski slopes might lack the beautiful natural surroundings that actual ski resorts have, they are a great way of hitting the slopes no matter what your ski/snowboard ability is.

• Agility
• Cardio
• Endurance
• Flexibility