Tips to Staying Fit this Summer | Nash Tipoff

Once you have your body ready for the swimsuit season, gorging on calorie-laden barbecue foods, lounging all day on your hammock, and enjoying a few too many cocktails can quickly reverse your progress. However, you can keep fit if you?re open to eating some nutritious warm weather foods and a trying variety of fun summertime fitness opportunities.

Take Advantage of the Pool
Work out and cool down simultaneously by hopping into a pool. However, keep in mind that you will burn more calories if you swim laps than if you simply take a dip. If you weigh about 160 pounds, swimming laps will burn off about 423 calories in an hour. There are other ways to get fit in a pool besides swimming laps. For example, you could take a water aerobics class, which would help you burn about 420 calories per hour. Alternately, you could try a water-adapted land activity such as kickboxing. Check out our Steve Nash Fitness Clubs schedule for class details.

Try Something New
Skip the treadmill and try a form of exercise that will nearly make you forget you?re working out. You may have never considered yourself an athlete, but why not take advantage of a warm summer day and try a new activity for a change? Hiking, biking, rollerblading, and tennis are high-energy activities that are more fun to participate in when the weather?s nice. If you don?t like the idea of exercising on a hot day, try a fun new indoor activity such as spinning, Zumba, LaBlast, Pilates, or Yoga. ?If you prefer the routine of hopping onto a machine at the gym, you can still spice up your routine and help your body burn more calories by cross-training. Combine powerwalking on a treadmill, gliding on an elliptical, bicycling, and using the StairMaster to work all of your major muscle groups and keep your body guessing.

Indulge Conscientiously
Hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans, ice cream, pie, beer, and mixed drinks galore! For some reason, summertime celebration barbecues seem like the ideal time to cut loose and cheat on your diet. There?s no need to fret over a treat now and then. In fact, if you completely forbid yourself from enjoying the occasional treat, your attempt to follow a ?healthy foods only? diet will more than likely fail and you will backslide into eating more junk food than ever before. Still, you should focus your efforts on enjoying treats in moderation. It?s also important to be conscientious about how you indulge. For example, if you want a slice of cake, make it a thin slice from the middle rather than taking the big chunk at the end with all the frosting on it. If you?re having a drink, have a lower-calorie glass of wine or lite beer instead of having a margarita or a whiskey and cola. If you want a mixed drink, have it with club soda.

Enjoy Healthy Warm Weather Foods
While you should make treats ?sometimes? foods, the rest of your diet should be filled with nutritious snacks and meals. Start your day with a filling and well balanced breakfast. It should contain at least some whole grains, some fruit, some dairy, and some protein. If the day?s too warm for a bowl of oatmeal, opt for whole grain cold cereal, a banana, and an egg. Eating a healthy breakfast will not only boost your metabolism first thing in the morning, it will also help prevent you from getting hungry and bingeing on snacks before lunchtime. Vegetables should make up at least half of your lunch and dinner. They are chock-full of vitamins, they are generally low in calories, and they are rich in stomach-filling fiber. An example of a fresh warm weather nutrient-rich lunch or dinner idea is a taco salad. To prepare it, mix pinto beans, salsa, tortilla chips, low-fat sour cream, and avocado wedges into a bed of romaine lettuce

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