Friday, June 5, 2015

Dogs - Your Best Companion To Get Fit

By Merv Carlson


If you want to have fun and improve your lifestyle positively, consider owning a dog. Your life becomes more exciting when you have a dog as a loyal companion. You'll have fun moments having the dog doing outdoor activities with you. People tend to be lazy indoor in winter; but summer is coming; to get fit and become healthier, take your dog out of your home and start doing outdoor activities together. The warm weather and the beautiful nature outside provides you with more motivation to do the outdoor activities. Below are some outdoor activities you can do with your dog.

Walking This is one of the most known lifetime sports. I mean everyone is doing it, more or less. Walking for half an hour a day, for at least five days a week, you can lower the risk of high blood pressure, diabetes and heart diseases. Walking your dog will help you improve your fitness and health form incomparably. Owning a dog is an excellent trick to incorporate walking into your life. This activity is good for your bone health, as well for your dogs.

Jogging Jogging is a form of aerobics exercises. Jogging is popular since it is easy to do and it brings countless health advantages. When you decide to do jogging, make sure to start slowly and gradually increase the distance or time. Before you start a jogging program, you can talk with your doctor to see what jogging distance and time you should start with. When you go jogging with your dog, you have time to relax, relieve stress while burning the calories.

Hiking This activity will help you get an amazing leg workout, while providing cardiovascular benefits as well. You can run away from the unbearable noise of the city and pollution and go to the closest forest or park with your dog. While having a break from the stressful daily life and listening to the birds or enjoying the forest breeze, you can do some exercises as well. In order to do this activity with your dog, you need to prepare a bit before. You should take a backpack with you, for carrying water, hiking boots and some dog shoes, if you know the terrain is going to be rocky. Pack his collar as well, maybe he loves hiking so much that he wants to spend more time doing it.

Water Sports Most dogs love water. If you live near a beach or a lake, you'll definitely have fun moments playing water sports with your dogs. Surfing is a water sport you can let your dog play with you. However dog surfing requires training. If your dog can not surf, take him to go swimming with you.




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