It can be difficult to get out and about at this time of year, with shorter, colder, and often wet days. It’s pretty much second nature to want to stay indoors and hibernate, wrapping up warm until Spring tempts us out again. The Winter blues can affect some people, also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
During Winter a routine of weekly exercise with others is very important. Scheduling a class keeps us motivated, ensuring we get our “dose” of weekly exercise, strengthening, and balancing work. Once booked in your diary, you are less likely to put it off “until tomorrow”, which is so easily done if we haven’t prioritised and scheduled it into our week.
While we all know that daily physical activity is essential for health benefits, it can be difficult to achieve the UK Activity Guidelines of an accumulation of 150 minutes (two and a half hours a week) of moderate-intensity activity; that is, exercising that results in a slightly raised heart rate, feeling warmer, breathing faster, but still being able to talk. Attending a class contributes to the weekly 150 minutes activity recommendation.
All movement is important, including light activity such as general household tasks and slow walking, but moderate intensity, strengthening, and balance activities, like that carried out in our classes, provide greater health benefits.
Call Walnut Grove on 01275 818303 to find out about the range of exercise classes offered. Many are available including Yoga, Structured Movement Rehabilitation Therapy, Online, and Studio based seated Pilates classes, rehabilitation, and mat work Pilates classes.
During Winter we must keep moving and exercising to boost our bodies and brains to feel good hormones and not hibernate with the Winter blues.
