People don’t often think of gardening as a form of fitness training, but in fact, it has many great health benefits. It can strengthen the whole body as well as vastly improve mental health and emotional wellbeing. Here are five reasons you should perhaps think about taking up gardening.
Good Core Strength
Gardening is an excellent way to build up those core foundational muscles. By carrying heavy objects, digging in the ground, and balancing to prune bushes, you engage your core continuously.
Full Body Workout
But gardening does not just work the core. It also works every muscle in the body, especially the arms, legs, shoulders, and back muscles. And it is low-impact, meaning that it doesn’t harm the joints.
Consistent Exercise
Gardening is a good way to ensure consistent exercise. When you have flowers and trees growing you need to continually keep them in check and care for them. This means that you need to go outside and exercise every week.
At One With Nature
Plenty of studies have shown that caring for plants as you watch them grow through the cycles of life is a great way of improving mental health.
Reduces Stress
Being in the great outdoors, with the wind on your face and the smell of vegetation in the air, is known to reduce stress and anxiety levels and help you feel at peace.
