5 Tips for Teens: Staying Fit During the Winter

Winter weather may make outdoor activities more difficult, but don’t let that stop you from embracing exercise.
5 Tips for Teens: Staying Fit During the Winter
Teenagers can stay active during winter by helping out at home. Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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Physical exercise comes easy as sunshine in the summer. Maybe you have yard work that gets you out of the house for an hour or so. Maybe that basketball court in the park beckons every morning. The local pool’s open for some afternoon swimming, and you may go on evening walks with your family.

Winters are definitely in a different league. It’s already dark when Mom or Dad arrives home from work, so there go the evening walks. The pool closed when schools reopened, and no one’s shooting hoops when icicles are hanging from the backboard. You have no interest in school sports, and your required PE classes are a joke.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.