Lifestyle. Leisure

IN modern world, full of movement and rush, many people prefer active leisure to passive. It is clear that it is much easier to lie on the couch in front of the TV than to do physical labor. It's easier then it's easier, but is it more useful? Active rest tempers the body and gives it strength, and resting passively, a person becomes inactive and naturally all the sores come out.

Active rest - what is it?

Active recreation is a type of recreation in which a person can relieve the burden of accumulated fatigue through physical exercise. Many can say that even without active rest they get tired at work, and it is easier and more pleasant for them to spend time at home doing what they love. Scientists have long proven that during active rest a person restores his strength many times faster and all systems begin to work without interruption.

Active rest - pluses

There are a lot of advantages of outdoor activities, it is especially important that it is useful at any age and the number of its types pleases with its abundance. Active recreation in nature is one of the most useful and enjoyable, and it has many more advantages.

1. Active recreation and sports, first of all, contribute to the release of a hormone so important for our body - adrenaline. It has the strongest fat-burning property, which allows the body to get rid of the extra "burden".
2. This type of recreation helps a person to increase their physical activity and improve their shape. Hence the excellent mood for the whole working week, and as a nice bonus - muscle tone and a beautiful body.
3. Diversity. There are a huge number of types of recreation, and it doesn’t matter if you are young or old, there is always the opportunity to choose what you like. If your goal is to get a big dose of adrenaline, go in for extreme sports.

Cons of outdoor activities

The main, and perhaps the only disadvantage is undeniably the dangers of outdoor activities. When engaging in physical activity, there is always a risk of injury, especially during an active winter holiday, but if you take precautions and do not overdo it, you can do without disastrous consequences, having only received a boost of energy for a long time.

Active holidays - views

If you decide to go in for active recreation, then you need, first of all, to decide what attracts you more - nature, speed, water, or walking on fresh air. In choosing the sport and recreation you are interested in, a huge number of offers open up for you, you can view them below.

Activities

The most popular types of outdoor activities:

1. Surfing. This type is suitable for energetic young and old people who are not afraid to face danger face to face. A dose of adrenaline and an unforgettable experience are guaranteed.

2. Hunting. This type is suitable for men who are tired of everyday routine work and dream of visiting nature. What could be more pleasant than the smell of grass and the expectation of approaching game. Why don't you make it in?

3. Fishing. For many, the most pleasant form of relaxation, because it is so good to sit in the fresh air near the calmly swaying water, and immerse yourself in your thoughts. Family leisure- fishing, it is considered family fishing because it is more pleasant to fish with the whole family.

4. Cycling tourism. It is rightfully one of the most accessible and popular sports. How much is needed - desire and a bicycle. And now you are already traveling through the fresh air in a pleasant company of friends.

Tourism. Unity with nature far from the blessings of civilization is an accessible vacation for everyone. Feeling like "Robinsons" while spending time in the wilderness on the banks of a reservoir, or somewhere in the mountains, will help you relax both your soul and body, while receiving a huge boost of positive energy.

Outdoor Activities Ideas

There are actually a lot of ideas, and every day there are more and more of them. Gather your friends and discuss what you would like to do. After all, it is much more pleasant to spend time usefully in a pleasant company. To make it easier for you to choose the most interesting activity we have prepared a list interesting ideas for relax.

Where to spend an active holiday?

One of the most popular destinations in active recreation:

1. Paintball- a fun team game using markers (balls with paint) to mark (shoot) opponents. It is a rewarding, active and memorable sport.

2. climbing wall- counts dangerous view recreation. But if you are not afraid of heights and are ready to have an interesting time, go ahead to conquer new peaks.

3. Skydiving is a very extreme sport. Worth a try for those who are tired and looking thrill. This is a bright and memorable type of recreation for a lifetime.

Diving. See the beauty underwater world offer not only on the oceans and seas. The river and lake underwater environment is also quite interesting and attractive.

Rafting. For lovers of extreme sports, going down mountain rivers in inflatable boats is perfect, however, it is not recommended to raft on rough waters on your own - there are special companies that provide experienced instructors and organize a safe vacation.

Quad biking. This type of entertainment is suitable for those who have reached the age of majority, and it is not necessary to have a license to drive this extreme mode of transport.

Snowmobile trips. A winter alternative to an ATV is snowmobiling. You can admire the beauty of winter with or without an instructor, depending on the availability of skills and funds.

Unusual active holiday

Unusual outdoor activities are aimed more at people who want to feel the taste of life and understand why they need it at all. Many are looking for additional or radically new sources of impressions and adrenaline, someone pays tribute to fashion. One way or another, but the types of outdoor activities offered below will appeal to many lovers of everything unusual, interesting and exciting.

Aerodynamic tube. Which active holiday to choose - try flying in a wind tunnel. This type of recreation is new and least safe. Before the flight, you will be trained and you will be provided with special equipment. Moreover, during the entire flight session there will be instructors nearby.

Speleotourism. A new type of recreation for lovers highlands is to explore the caves. Caves with lakes, which cannot be compared with anything else in their beauty, are especially attractive for those who like to actively relax.

Safari. This species is considered to be exotic, but in our latitudes there are places for safaris that will offer to enjoy the life of wild animals in their natural environment a habitat. By the way, for this it is not necessary to hunt, as many mistakenly believe.

Flights to hot-air balloon . This entertainment, although expensive, is worth it. Many people dream of seeing the earth from a bird's eye view, but not everyone has the courage to do so.

Leisure- is a very important part of my life .. I noticed that most people are too busy earning money, everyday, everyday problems and do not consider it necessary to have a good rest. When you don’t ask, they always have no time or 149 more reasons ..... Perhaps you know such people, or maybe you yourself relate to them !?

If we talk about types of recreation, here we can distinguish 2 main options: passive and active recreation. According to general statistics and my personal observations, most people choose a more passive vacation, such as going to a cafe, restaurant, bathhouse, theater, etc. That is, many people believe that rest is a quiet pastime and prefer not to strain too much during leisure.

I have nothing against going to the theater, a restaurant or a bathhouse, but I am an ardent supporter of more active types of recreation and in this topic, I wanted to talk about what are outdoor activities and its benefits.

It is very important for me to know more information about the readers of my Blog, to receive feedback from you! Therefore, I immediately want to ask you, after reading this post, leave your comment and tell us what kind of active rest you prefer!

What are the types of outdoor activities?

Active winter holidays. Looking through the statistics of search queries on the topic: outdoor activities, I found that after the main (highly private) query, most of all in search engines, people are looking for information on the topic active winter holidays. And this is not without reason, because this is a real culture that attracts more and more new admirers every year! When we talk about active winter recreation, most people (including myself) mean exactly rest on ski resort. My friends and good acquaintances know that active winter holidays- this is an invariable component of my Lifestyle, and I will not now describe in detail all the charms and privileges of this type of recreation,I wrote about it in a post. I just want to add that to the active winter holidays can also be attributed: cross-country skiing in the forest, sledding, ice skating, etc.

Active outdoor recreation, tourism. Tents, hiking, campfire evenings, fresh air and BEAUTIFUL NATURE - this is a great combination for an active holiday with good company! You need to visit one of them at least once. scenic spots our vast Mother Earth (naturally with the right company) to feel the greatness of NATURE and enjoy this type of outdoor activity.

Sports (team and single) games. This variety is directly related to the first and goes well with the second type of outdoor activity, which we talked about a little higher. Team games such as football, volleyball, basketball are great for outdoor activities with a company of like-minded people. And tennis, billiards, skiing, as well as other single sports games, help you to reveal yourself individually and enjoy improving your skills! There are other sports, such as running, which can be classified as active recreation.

Biking. No wonder I singled out as a separate type of outdoor activity. In addition to the fact that cycling, you develop leg muscles, it is very exciting and interesting, especially mountain biking somewhere in the forest.In my youth, cycling was one of my favorite and constant outdoor activities and pastimes. In the spring I plan to buy Natalie and me a bike and continue the forgotten tradition

Swimming. This type of outdoor activity can also be attributed to sports, but I decided to separate it into a separate category. In autumn and winter in the pool or in the summer in a pond, swimming develops several muscle groups at once and is a very useful form of outdoor activity. Moreover, swimming often has to be used for other types of active and passive recreation!

Hunting and fishing. Perhaps the most favorite men's hobbies, which can also be attributed to varieties of outdoor activities. They came to us from primitive times and used to be rather a necessity, a means of survival, but now they have moved into the category of the most popular male hobbies. For me, this type of outdoor activity is not quite close, although in the summer I sometimes go fishing with a bait with pleasure!

Fitness, dancing. If the previous type of outdoor activity can be called male, then fitness and dancing are definitely a female option (although there are some exceptions). It is very important for future and current mothers to keep themselves in good physical shape! One is to bear a healthy baby and at the same time be attractive to her beloved husband and other men (the natural need of any woman), the other is to put her figure in order after childbirth.
I have a lot of respect for girls who regularly take care of their bodies and choose outdoor activities!

I have listed the most popular outdoor activities(if I forgot something, tell me, I will definitely add it) Now is the time to talk about the benefits ...

10 Benefits of Outdoor Activities

1. Active rest implies an increase in human motor activity, as a result of which all muscles and organ systems maintain their efficiency, which is the key to good health and cheerful mood. Your body receives the necessary loads and develops!
   
2. All of the above options for the implementation of outdoor activities reflect the essence of a healthy lifestyle.
   
3. Active rest is always a lot of positive emotions! Any of yours, even small victories, evoke unique feelings in you!
   
4. Adrenalin. This special feeling is difficult to put into words, but it is worth experiencing it at least once, and you will have a desire to repeat it again and again.
   
5. Physical activity during outdoor activities can distract from solving various complex problems and effectively unload the brain. In addition, outdoor activities assume that vacationers will be in nature, and this is the sun, fresh air and other pleasant things that can significantly improve mood and immunity.
   
6. It is very important that active recreation can be practiced at any age.
   
7. Depending on your capabilities and strengths, you can choose a more extreme or quieter type of outdoor activity, which will allow you to have a quality and memorable vacation with the whole family.
   
8. Opportunity to explore and photograph. Indeed, during outdoor activities, wonderful pictures are obtained that will become the best in your home photo albums and will repeatedly cheer you up!
   
9. Collective sports, which are undoubtedly active recreation, allow you to rally a team, a team, and even help your business develop. I wrote about this in more detail.

and describe the main forms of its organization.

Leisure

This is one of the ways to spend free time from work, a kind of hobby for a person, during which he is engaged in such types of activities that require the intellectual and physical activity of the human body.

Activities

Cultural - cognitive rest/

Cultural and educational recreation has the target function of familiarization with the sights and monuments of nature, the study of culture, history and life of a certain people or region. These include the following activities:

Excursions educational, historical and local history;

Adventure and archaeological expeditions;

Ethnographic (deep) and esoteric tourism, photo and video tourism;

River and sea ​​cruises, tours to exotic countries, shopping tours, etc.;

Give up bad habits. Use less caffeine (replace it with chicory), alcohol, and try to quit smoking. Lead an active lifestyle. Sign up for a gym and visit it at least once a week. Not only will you look great, you will feel much better, feel cheerful and light all over your body.

Extreme views.

Extreme types: has a target function to test yourself in extreme conditions and get a charge of vivacity. As a rule, this is associated with a certain risk to health, and possibly life, which requires a serious attitude to the choice of equipment, compliance with safety measures and good physical shape. This type of outdoor activity can be divided according to the degree of danger:

The most dangerous: Alpine skiing, telemark (outside prepared tracks on untouched snow), diving, or recreational mountaineering, rafting on mountain rivers on catamarans, canoes, kayaks, etc.;

Less dangerous: skateboarding, etc.;

Health tourism

Health-improving active rest has the target function of restoring physical and mental strength, treatment of certain diseases. At the same time, they use climatic conditions various places of residence healing springs, dosed physical activity and the like. TO this species may include the following:

Hiking and skiing, cycling and horseback riding, as well as jogging and swimming;

Amateur and ecological, medical and agro tourism;

Collection of medicinal herbs, berries, mushrooms, as well as amateur hunting and fishing;

Download option

Warm up before playing volleyball.

Warm up

This is a 10 - 15 minute period of time during which the body prepares for physical activity. Some want to instantly achieve results, turn out to be from the warm-up and do it without visible problems. But such inattention leads to pain and injuries, since not only the muscles, but also the nervous system are not ready to perform the exercises. Psychologically, the human body is not yet configured to perform the selected exercises, so we should talk a little about the importance of warming up. The point is that warm muscles can safely stretch with a greater range of motion than cold ones. Thus, you become more flexible and at the same time you can minimize the damage that can happen by accident: by mistake or if you suddenly stumble. It can be added that a liberated and flexible body reacts faster and absorbs accidental falls and uncomfortable positions that are not excluded during a complex exercise. Summarizing the above, it can be noted that the warm-up, without causing early fatigue, prepares the body for active training and helps prevent injuries. In addition, it gives energy and makes playing volleyball enjoyable and fun!

How to stretch.

The warm-up should begin with low-intensity exercises, gradually increasing the load to the level of the main workout. The warm-up can correspond to the exercises of the workout, but performed at a lower intensity, or be a completely separate set of exercises. A warm-up is effective if it involves all the muscles necessary for the main workout, and also increases the respiratory rate, heart rate and sweat.

Warm-up exercises for the main muscle groups:

Running exercises.

1. Snake running, running around racks or various objects.

2. Running with arbitrary acceleration of 3-5 m.

3. Running, "throwing" straight legs forward.

4. Running, "throwing" straight legs back.

5. Running with high hips.

6. Running with an overflowing movement of the lower leg back.

7. Running backwards.

8. Movement with side steps (right, left).

jumping exercises

1. Hands on the belt, jumps on one leg with a change of legs.

2. Hands on the belt, jumping on both legs in a triangle or square.

3. Jumping to the side from one foot to the other, jumping in place through the lines drawn on the floor.

4. Jumping out of the squat (half squat) up.

5. Jumping out of the squat (half squat) forward.

6. Hands on the belt, jumping on both legs with a turn of 180° (360°).

7. Jumping on one leg moving forward.

8. Jumping on one leg left and right.

9. Jumping on both legs, pulling the knees to the chest ("kangaroo").

10. Jumping with both feet over the bench.

Exercise for warming up the muscles of the hands.

1. Standing in the main stance - arms forward, to the sides, up.

2. Hands to the shoulders - circular rotations of the hands.

3. Circular rotations with straight arms - 4 times forward, 4 times back, gradually increasing the amplitude.

4. Circular rotations with straight arms in different directions.

6. Circular rotations with the hands clenched into a fist, to one and the other side, with both hands simultaneously and alternately from the position of the hand to the sides or forward.

7. Squeezing and unclenching the hands into a fist from the position of the hand forward.

8. Legs apart, jerks with arms bent at the elbows in front of the chest with a turn of the torso.

5. Circular rotations of the forearm in and out from the position of the hand to the sides.

9. Clutch the brushes “in the lock” - kneading.

10. Right hand at the top, left hand at the bottom jerking hands back.

Exercises for warming up the muscles of the body

1. Feet shoulder-width apart - tilts, reaching the floor with your hands.

2. Legs wider than shoulders - tilts, reaching the floor with your elbows.

3. Feet shoulder-width apart, bending over, arms to the sides - turning the torso, reaching out with the toes of the legs.

4. Feet shoulder width apart, hands on the belt - circular movements of the pelvis.

5. Tilt back, bending over, reaching for the heels with your hands.

6. Tilt back, bending over, reaching out alternately right hand left heel and vice versa.

7. Feet shoulder-width apart, hands on the belt - three springy tilts in one direction and the other.

8. Feet shoulder-width apart, one hand at the top, the other at the bottom - for each count, tilt to the sides with an overflowing movement of the hands behind the back.

IN Lately All more people come to the realization of simple truths: physical activity is not only a wonderful way to improve health, keep the body and soul young for a long time, but also one of the indispensable components of the modern lifestyle successful person. And the combination "physical activity + travel" is rightfully considered one of the better ways vacation, an ideal combination of business and pleasure. Therefore, it is not surprising that active recreation is increasingly moving towards a leading position in the tourism market.

The laconic phrase "active recreation" includes a great variety of activities - from the usual trip with tents to non-professional extreme sports. Active Views recreation is usually divided into water (diving, kite and windsurfing, snorkeling, wakeboarding, kayaking, rafting, water skiing etc.), ground (trekking, camping trips, bike tours, horseback riding tours, fishing, hunting, etc.), mountain (rock climbing, mountaineering, mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, etc.), air (parachuting, hang gliding, etc.).

All these activities are united not only by intense muscle work, the need to apply sports skills and abilities, but also by the richest palette of unique sensations, impressions and emotions. To everyone who at least once conquered a multi-meter ocean wave, overcame the difficult threshold of a stormy river or climbed a seemingly inaccessible mountain peak, the feeling of indescribable delight that occurs despite physical fatigue is well known. After such small victories, you feel an incredible surge of energy, you want to work with renewed vigor and enjoy life.

Many types of outdoor activities can be classified as extreme. Activities such as caving (cave exploration), rafting and climbing routes A high level of difficulty is always associated with danger and risk, and therefore requires not only good psychological and physical preparation, but also long-term special training.

Necessary attributes of most types of active, and especially extreme, tourism are special clothing and footwear, as well as equipment. Such things are often expensive, but in this case it is unacceptable to save money - the safety of the tourist largely depends on the quality of the equipment. Most often, travelers who do not constantly practice specific types of extreme recreation prefer to rent equipment.

By the way, it is wrong to think that active tourism suitable only for young people. A correct assessment of one’s physical abilities, a competent choice of a sports direction is a guarantee that active recreation will bring only pleasure and positive emotions to every person, regardless of age.

The content of the article:

Many people prefer passive rest to active rest. As a result, a person is inactive in life, and this fact can cause various diseases. Today we will talk about the types of outdoor activities and their benefits. Already from the name it becomes clear that active rest implies the presence of physical activity that does not cause fatigue.

Many believe that if a person is engaged in physical labor, then he does not need active rest, but this is a delusion. Most often at work, we perform monotonous monotonous actions that negatively affect the nervous system. For some, active recreation can even be going to the cinema or to a concert. Whether this is a full-fledged outdoor activity is difficult to say, and even experts are not unanimous on this issue. We can say with full confidence that the rest should be varied.

Scientists have proven that during active rest the body is able to recover much faster compared to passive rest. Agree that playing volleyball on the beach, you do not get tired. On the contrary, during this period of time you experience positive emotions, and this has a beneficial effect on the work of all body systems.

Benefits of outdoor activities

First of all, due to active rest, physical activity increases. This allows you to maintain high muscle tone and improves mood. This, in turn, is one of the elements of a healthy lifestyle. An equally important advantage of outdoor activities is getting a large number of positive emotions.

Although to get a large dose of adrenaline, it is usually practiced extreme sports, but any activity contributes to the release of this hormone. Recall that adrenaline has strong fat-burning properties. Exercise stress is great way distractions from everyday worries, of which there are a lot in our lives.

Active rest is useful at any age, which is very important. At the same time, it should be remembered that there is a large number of types of outdoor activities, which we will talk about in more detail. This allows each person to find the most suitable one for themselves. You can choose something extreme for yourself or vice versa, calm, but involving physical activity.

Types of active recreation

Diving

Surfing

Water skiing

Hunting

Fishing

Safari

Cycling tourism

mountain bike

Balloon flights

mountain sports

Skates

Horseback Riding

Kayaking and rafting

Sailing

Speleotourism

skateboarding

Golf

Tourism

Paintball

Ringo

climbing wall

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