Who needs a gym membership when you've got a backyard? Burn calories AND get your yard in shape for spring with #LiveLifeOutside Fitness.

The #LiveLifeOutside Fitness Plan

To start the plan, all you need is a yard, a few gardening tools and a dash of willpower. Make sure to warm up with a brisk walk and light stretching and always use proper bending and lifting techniques to help avoid injury.

Break a Sweat & Avoid Snow Mold

Removing snow not only helps you get your heart rate up, it can also reduce the risk of personal injury when you’re living life outside this winter.

By spending about an hour every few days clearing snow, you’ll have less of a risk of the nasty stuff developing.
Here’s the calorie burn you can expect from one hour of snow removal:

Using a snow blower while walking can burn up to 300 calories per hour
Shoveling snow burns anywhere from 400-600 calories per hour?

Burn Serious Calories with Tree & Shrub Maintenance

Trimming your shrubs and trees helps defend them from winter weather and pests, provides a killer arm workout and can help you torch those holiday desserts.

Want to maximize your outdoor workout? Exchange the electric hedge trimmers for hand-held clippers.

Here’s what you’ll burn doing an hour of tree and shrub maintenance:

Trimming shrubs and trees with a manual cutter burns 238 calories per hour
Stacking wood burns 272 calories per hour
Chopping wood burns 340 calories per hour
Hauling branches burns 272 calories per hour
Cleaning gutters burns 272 calories per hour

Start a Garden to Shed Holiday Pounds

Who knew that planning and prepping your garden for spring could also help you prep for swimsuit season?

Feel the holiday pounds melt away with an hour of these gardening activities (check out a local growing guide to see the best time to begin):

Planting seedlings or shrubs 238 calories per hour
Planting a tree 238 calories per hour
Picking fruit from trees, picking vegetables 136 calories per hour
Tilling a garden 340 calories per hour
Digging, spading or composting a garden 272 calories per hour

Want to make planting and gardening a little more challenging? When you bring home plants from the garden store, take them back to the yard one at a time instead of moving them all at once.