Five Indoor Workouts To Boost Your Fitness
- By Linzay Logan
- Published Jan. 24, 2012
Swimming
Like rowing, swimming is also no impact yet can get the blood pumping and leave your lungs gasping for air. Runners often ignore strengthening their upper body and swimming is great for your shoulders, back and core, all of which make you a stronger, all-around runner.
“Swimming is an excellent endurance sport that uses different muscles groups [than running]. It is especially beneficial for runners recovering from injuries,” San Diego-based swim coach Brian Jenkins explained. “Running can be tough and swimming is a good outlet for similar endurance activity but low impact. It’s also great for the aging population who can’t run like they used to.”
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Linzay Logan
Linzay Logan is the copy editor for Competitor magazine and cares about punctuation probably a little too much. She particularly loves to avoid commas as well as add exclamation points whenever she can get away with it! She also loves to run marathons and half-marathons—probably a little too much. Don’t let her small size fool you; she’ll still try to outrun you anytime. Even though chances are she probably can’t.