Work Out in Your Backyard Gardening
These tips will help you make sure your body is in good form when working outdoors.
Summer is the time to get in shape. It's also the time to break out your rakes, shovels and mowers. So it's fitting that National Gardening Exercise Day comes early in the summer this year. Gardening is surprisingly similar to working out—you are doing physically demanding work outside that burns calories, and you should have your sneakers on and plenty of water in hand. National Gardening Exercise Day, this past Thursday, brings awareness to the fact that gardening should be treated as a physical activity that you should know how to warm up and cool down for. Michael Perry, M.D., medical director of the Laser Spine Institute, suggests mixing up your gardening routine like you would a workout so you don't overexert yourself in one …
