Aerobic workouts, like jogging, are workouts that increase your heart and respiratory rates. These workouts help your body to burn calories that have been stored as fat. They strengthen your cardiovascular and respiratory systems to increase your physical endurance. Aerobic workouts also help to tone and strengthen muscles, but their primary purpose is to strength the heart and lungs, raise the metabolism to burn fat and increase endurance.

Anaerobic workouts are workouts, like calisthenics and weight training, that focus on strengthening and developing the muscles. While these workouts are strenuous, they don't typical raise your heart or respiratory rate for an extended period of time. Instead, anaerobic exercises tone muscles and encourage muscle growth; they can also improve balance and flexibility and strengthen joints.

Ideally, both types of workouts should be combined. Activities like swimming, snowboarding and cycling combine aerobic and anaerobic elements into workouts that provide the benefits of both aerobic and anaerobic exercise.

Snowboarding is a great way to get outdoors, get some fresh air and exercise in the winter. It works nearly all of the body's major muscle groups, especially the legs and core. You'll use the big muscles in your legs, such as the quads, calves and hamstrings, to guide the board over the snow. You'll also use your calves and the muscles of your feet and ankles to steer the board. Snowboarding requires good balance, so you'll develop stronger core muscles. You'll also tone your upper body as you use your arms for balance.

Snowboarding is an excellent aerobic workout that gets your heart rate up and increases cardiovascular and respiratory endurance. It also burns a lot of calories. The average person can expect to burn between 250 and 630 calories per hour, depending on the difficulty of the terrain. More difficult terrain forces your body to work harder to control the board.

Anaerobic workouts, like weight training, focus on building muscle density and strength. Activities like jogging, on the other hand, focus on increasing cardiovascular endurance and burning calories. Snowboarding helps strengthen nearly all of the muscles of your body, including some that you don't often use, such as the muscles in your feet and ankles, which help to steer the board.

Snowboarding requires rapid changes in pace and direction, and it requires you to pay attention to the terrain over which you're traveling. As you become more aware of the terrain and develop the ability to make quick changes in direction and pace, you'll experience increased flexibility and enhanced focus and concentration.