Within one to three months, you can lose all the endurance or strength you spent the spring, summer, and early fall developing.
It’s easy to let your workout habits slide during the holidays and cold months, but taking one to three months off can cause you to lose almost all of your fitness gains.
Experts have a number of recommended ways to stay motivated and in shape during winter months.
Most importantly, pick something you like to do enough that you’ll keep it up consistently.
It’s one thing to go for a run outside or play in a pick-up soccer game on a warm summer day. But it’s quite another to get outside in the winter, when the wind chill makes you gasp and it’s dark long before you leave the office.
It’s tempting to stop working out sometime in November as the holiday season sets in. Then before you know it, it’s February, and no one wants to go outside after they’ve been cozy and lazy for the past few months. It’s hard to motivate yourself to even walk to the gym by then.
Tech: How to make this the winter you finally stay in shape
