Ice Skating
Ice skating is a very enjoyable way during the colder months of the year to get some exercise, spend time with friends and enjoy the outdoors. It’s another way to vary your exercise during the year either during the day or in the evening. Well, I got my first chance this season to lace up my skates and go skating this past weekend. The earliest for me in many years!
Most people will get most of their cardiovascular exercise during the colder months indoors either at home, at the gym or playing recreational sports. Ice skating is another way to get a light cardio and good leg workout in, without it feeling like you are exercising. Usually time passes by very quickly when you go with a friend or friends.
Most ice rinks will rent ice skates, but with them being so inexpensive to purchase new or used and they last for many years, it’s an inexpensive and fun way to exercise and get some fresh air. If you don’t now how to ice skate take a few lessons or get a friend to teach you.
Also, with the advent of synthetic ice, many warmer climates now have skating rinks. Is it possible one day to see synthetic ice skating rinks outdoors in the middle of summer? That would be quite a novelty for everyone at first!
