Cool places for morning exercises

To make sure all our efforts of morning exercises worthwhile, we should also carefully pick the best venues to do morning exercises. Parks, squares, university campuses, roadsides lined with trees, and a flat ground in front of the building you live in are all good choices. Here is a list of some suggestions of places in Beijing and Shanghai where people can find other morning exercisers.

Beijing
Temple of Heaven Park
Location: No.2 Tiantan Dongli, Chongwen District
Tel: 010-67022617

Chaoyang Park
Location: No.1 Nongzhan Nanlu, Chaoyang District
Tel: 010-65953972

Taoranting Park
Location: No.19 Taipingjie, Xuanwu District
Tel: 010-63532385

Xiangshan Park
Location: No.40 Maimaijie, Haidian District
Tel: 010-62591264

Shanghai
Fuxing Park
Location: No. Jia 2, Gaolanlu
Tel: 021-53861069

Renmin Park
Location: No.231 Nanjing Xilu, Huangpu District
Tel: 021-63271333

Changshou Park
Location: No. 260, Chaoshoulu, Putuo District
Tel: 021-52521386

Tips for doing morning exercises

1. Don't get up immediately after waking up. Stay in bed for several minutes instead. Think about some happy things to get mentally ready to get up.

2 Eat something before doing morning exercises, like bread, milk, eggs or some fruit.

3 Do gentle activities for morning exercises and avoid sweating too much, especially in the spring and summer. Cool breezes in the morning can cause people who have been sweating to catch a cold easily.

4 Doing morning exercises after sunrise when the air is fresher.

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