If you love to bike, run, swim, dance, golf, climb mountains or play pickleball, then build a fitness plan to support that hobby. Maky Di Vita, left, and Alvin Garcia, right, ride gravel bikes in Park City, Utah on Thursday, August 25, 2022.
— FLEXIBILITY: Too easy? Test your flexibility. Experts say that flexibility is also a skill that can be improved just like strength or cardio endurance. And developing it can better your quality of life, so long as you put in the work. There are five tests you can do to find out if you are appropriately flexible, and, if you come up lacking, those same movements can help you improve.
Just attach them to the floor, grab the ends and start moving them up and down or side to side to create waves in the ropes. Not only will you build strength in your arms, you can get a solid cardio workout at the same time. “If only your arms hurt, then you weren’t doing it right,” Curt Devoir, director of the Professional Stand Up Paddle Association told The Times.— GRAVEL BIKING: The real fun of the Why Not Try series is discovering a sport that you never thought you could do or one you had never even heard of. For example: gravel biking, a hybrid sport that blends the best of road biking and mountain biking. America has a shocking 2.
— PICKLEBALL: When it comes to fitness trends, nothing beat pickleball in 2022. It seemed like the game was everywhere, from San Francisco to South Africa. Yes, it makes some tennis players mad, but experts say pickleball is a legitimately solid workout. Some studies suggest 30 minutes of play are on par with a 30-minute jog or a session of yoga.