6 Awesome Benefits You and Your Dog Get When You Exercise Together

Exercising regularly is very important for the health. It helps your body be stronger and more resistant from diseases. It is a fun and healthy thing to do and particularly enjoyable when you are with your loved ones. Have you however tried working out with your dear dog?

That sounds like a nice concept. Working out here does not necessarily mean that your dog should use the exercise equipment sweaty people use in the gym! Nope! With your dog, you can do your own unique and energizing ways to exercise. It’s a whole lot different thing when pets do it with humans like you.

There are many friendly benefits for you and for your fur baby. Here are six of them:

[1] AN INSTANT WORKOUT BUDDY

Dog is man’s best friend. Yours is yours! Unlike your friend who cannot come with you for the day, your dog has no other commitment to attend to and no other plans to fulfill, so you are accompanied on your exercise! You get an instant workout buddy who can be as excited as you!

Your dog does not say “no” and “sorry,” but it is there to go with you! Sometimes, you just need your dog with you so you can keep calm, be relaxed and be away from bad vibes. You have your exercise buddy, your buddy in everything.

[2] TIGHTER AND CLOSER BOND

As a dog parent, you love how you can spend time with your baby. With that, you want every time spent to be meaningful too. Playing with your dog, running, jogging, rolling around and doing even the mini tricks you teach it develop the bond between you.

When you are filled with too much work, your pup can be your stress reliever. Spend time outside and get closer.

[3] MOTIVATION FROM YOUR HAPPY PILL

Most of the time, the problem why people cannot achieve their fitness goals is that they cannot even start. In exercising, you need the drive for you to get up and begin. Your dog can be that inspiration and motivation! Things will get a little more colorful and livelier if you take your precious kid with you.

[4] IT'S A PRODUCTIVE DAY

Exercising with your dog also adds up to a productive day! Most people have been both the culprit and and the suspect for their own un-productivity. Because you have been heartened by the cuteness of your dog to work out, you will have progress! You can take that one step of enthusiasm to continue walking the road and to reach the finish line for fitness!

[5] ALL ABOUT HAVING FUN

The lovely thing about working out together with your pet is that it does not feel like workout. It just feels like you went out to play and cuddle with your dog. It only seems like playtime! You and your dog get so much bliss! The workout is not intense for you because you got the balance with your dog’s way of working out too.

[6] YOUR DOG NEEDS WALKING OUT TOO

At first, you may think that exercising with your darling dog is only beneficial for you but no, it’s not only for yourself. Your dog also needs to move and exercise around. Walking your dog is a form of exercise, and there are many purposes for doing so, like power walks and training walks wherein your dog will be exercised and taught essentially.

Dogs can also get obese if they do not get to exercise their bodies, according to Susan O’Bell, DVM. Behavioral tendencies can also be affected when you do not give time for your dog to work out the way it should do so. Your dog will also be lively and not weak and not easily wearied.

Dogs with certain conditions in their body also need walking and other forms of pet exercising as prescribed by its doctor. If your dog carries some health matters wherein exercising can help a lot, be with it in its journey to getting well as it is always with you in whatever, wherever and whenever.

WIN-WIN!

Exercising with your dog is like exercising on your own but with a twist of fun and excitement! Most especially if it’s going to be the first time for your lovely doggo to walk out and exercise, it will really be great to look forward to it!

Again, this sweating off time does not mean you have to go to the gym with your dog and use the exercise equipment in there and be respectful because other people are working out there; you can just play and make good healthy memories. Every workout moment with your huggable arf baby is definitely a proud dog parent moment, and surely, that beautiful creature is also as proud with you.

AUTHOR BIO: Nicole Ann Pore is a daytime writer for Fitbiz Exercise Equipment, an Australian business nationally regarded as the benchmark in the Fitness industry, offering premium quality fitness equipment collection at affordable prices. She writes pieces focusing on the importance of being fit and healthy overall and the self discipline that must go with them. She also does research on various gym and exercise equipment to give more information about how they work. | Nicole graduated Cum Laude from De La Salle University Manila, Philippines with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts.