Winter Wellness Tips
Staying healthy through the winter is something that you may find requires just a little bit more care and attention than the rest of the year. With colds and flu occurring at a higher rate, and less opportunity to get out for sunshine and exercise, it becomes much more important to make sure you are keeping yourself as healthy as possible.
Put The Health Of Your Bones First This Winter
When the colder seasons start to come around, it can be easy to let go of your healthy living aspirations. It may become harder to motivate yourself to get outdoors to exercise, and it can certainly be more tempting to choose comfort foods over nutritious dishes.
Winter Exercise for Wellness
Staying active through the winter months can be a difficult thing to do, and if this is something you struggle with then you are certainly not alone! The cold weather can be a serious deterrent to wanting to get outside and get active. However, there is much to be gained health-wise by maintaining an adequate level of physical activity in the winter.
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Staying Active Through Winter
The beginning of the winter months will typically mean that the colder weather is about to settle in, and this can make it all the more difficult to stay active and lead a healthy life! If you are someone who spends a lot of time outside in the summer months, but finds it difficult to maintain this when it begins to get colder, then you may have noticed that your health and fitness takes a hit.
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Add Some fun to the Season with Curling
As the first snowflakes appear, we all start gearing up for three to four months of winter fun. While obvious sports like skiing and sledding peak through the winters, indoor games like curling can be a lot of fun too. Not your run-of-the-mill activity, curling dates back to early 1800s when the kings and queens of Scotland curled in their winter castles. Eventually, it spread all over the world and was played first at the Olympic Winter Sports in 1924.
While curling, players aim at sliding polished granite stones/rocks across sheets of ice at the target which is similar to a dart board, except it’s imprinted on the horizontal sheet of ice. The target has four rings and is called ‘house’. Four players divided into teams of two each, take turns to achieve the best score in the game using aiming skills. Eight stones are provided to each team and the points are scored based on where the stones rest on the concentric rings; the closer one is to the house, the higher the points scored. Once each team has used up all their stones, it is called as an end and each game has eight to ten such ends.
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