The Case For The Cold Weather Workout
Glamour|October 2018

IN FALL AND WINTER, IT’S EASY TO LET YOUR WORKOUT ROUTINE succumb to hibernation.

Christa Sgobba
The Case For The Cold Weather Workout

But new research shows that crisp temperatures can actually boost your results. “In a cool environment, people’s ratings of perceived exertion are lower, and the duration of their exercise time tends to be a little bit greater,” says Lacy Alexander, Ph.D., an associate professor of kinesiology at Penn State University. Translation: You can go harder, longer. Not only that, but even mildly cool temperatures (say, 60 degrees) can trigger the activation of heat-producing brown fat, the kind that burns calories, explains Kristin Stanford, Ph.D., a researcher at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

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