The Benefits of Exercising in Cold Weather - and How to Do It Safely

By: Mary Anderson writing for SHAPE

Whether you spend a day hiking the mountain trails or an hour running around your snow-covered neighborhood, winter workouts in the great outdoors can transform your mood and mind.

“We’ve found that people who saw winter as full of opportunity and not a limiting time of year experienced greater well-being: They had more positive emotions, greater life satisfaction, and greater personal growth,” says Kari Leibovitz, Ph.D., a health psychologist at Stanford who studied the mental benefits of embracing winter in Norway.

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