Ask a National Jewish Health Cardiologist if You Should Exercise in Bad Weather Make an Appointment Ask a Question Search Conditions Bad weather can make it a challenge to exercise, but National Jewish Health Cardiologist, Andrew Freeman, MD, offers suggestions to help you work around the elements. Related Videos How to Be Heart-Healthy All Day Long Truth: You Can Reverse Heart Disease, Derrick Did Why Do We Connect Love With The Heart? Walk With A Doc Transforms Lives What Has Love Got to Do with Your Health? Walking Is Nature’s Best Medicine Lifestyle Medicine: Improve Health, Food, Sleep, Exercise & Stress Management 4 Simple Ways to Be the Healthiest You How to Eat Healthy During the Holidays Intensive Cardiac Rehab Has Amazing Outcomes Does Cold Weather Exercising Burn More Calories? How to Lower Blood Pressure with Simple Changes How to Prevent a Heart Attack when Shoveling Snow Angina = Heart Attack Symptoms of a Weak Heart Breath Test or Heart Rate? What Is a Heart Murmur? What Causes a Heart Attack? 4 Ways to Prevent Heart Disease What is Chest Pain? Heart Attack Symptoms in Women 3 Keys to a Healthy Heart Transcript So a question I get regularly is, “Oh, it’s too hot, it’s too windy, it’s too cold, it snowed, it’s hailing. What should I do?” Well remember that your body doesn’t actually care what the weather is. Now I’m not recommending that you go out and try to run on a frozen lake, but rather I want you to try and get exercise everyday at a level that you’re breathless. And this could be indoor, outdoor, in a pool, in a lake. It could be snowshoeing, it could be cross country skiing, or it could be on a treadmill or an elliptical. But, whatever you have available to you, come up with several different options so that if the weather doesn’t cooperate and you want to do something outside, you can do it inside and vice versa. Always have a plan and a backup. Visit njhealth.org/cardiology for more information. Want to use this on your website? Fill out the content usage request form and then copy this code: