These 30-minute outdoor workouts buff your body

from womenshealth.com

It's never too late to shape up for summer! With these 30-minute outdoor workouts, you can buff your body--and still have time to play Given a certain baby-daddy with an affinity for bongos and nekkedness, it's pretty clear that outdoor workouts are effective. But since gawking isn't exactly scientific evidence, we did some actual research. And guess what?

The McConaughey Theory of Hotness is totally valid. Simply taking your running routine out of the gym ups calorie burn by about 5 percent, thanks to wind and varied terrain. And fluctuating outdoor temps further increase the number of calories you torch by about 7 percent because your body has to work to keep your thermostat dialed in to 98.6 degrees. Not convinced? In 2007, researchers in England found that outdoor workouts are nature's Zoloft. When they compared the mental benefits of a 30-minute walk in the park with an indoor jaunt, 71 percent of the subjects who took it outside said they felt less tense afterward, while 72 percent of the indoor crew felt even more stressed. More