Health Benefits of Adaptive Snowshoeing

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name's Dave Schoeneck and we're here in the Wasatch, beautiful Wasatch mountains of Utah here to talk about adaptive sports and how snowshoeing can fit in with a lot of people's adaptive life. So snowshoeing overall can give you a very complete workout. You're using all types of different muscles. You're obviously using your heart and the cardiovascular, but you're using your legs, your arms with the poles. And when you think about it, it's a lot better on your joints than it is running down the pavement jogging and running, some of those activities. But because there's less, less of the pounding, you're hitting snow and it's absorbing it more. So in an overall view, it's probably better for you than some of the roadside running. And then you get to do this without exhaust in your face, which is kind of a nice feature as well. It's a good cardio workout and, so that gets the heart muscle working as well as quite a few other muscles as you'll see in just a minute as we demonstrate some of the snowshoeing moves. But overall, it's a great exercise and it's an awful lot of fun to get outdoors and get the, your lungs working and all the other muscles and have a lot of fun."