Band 4+: You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Some people prefer to exercise indoors while others prefer outdoor activities. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. You should write at least 250 words.

In modern times, obesity is one of the global issues. As a result, people start to exercise to manage their weight. Some people support that exercising indoors is better than exercising outdoors. This essay aims to discover the merit of both exercises indoors and outdoors and decide whether indoors or outdoor exercises better.

Firstly, proponents of exercise indoors support that exercise indoors can help individuals mentally. Exercise indoors mostly have a calm and quiet sound to relax after a heavy workload, whereas outdoor exercises can be pretty much loud and noisy. As an effect, it can help people to be more happier and exercise peacefully without any noice. Secondly, supporters of this trend said that exercise indoors can give people private space. As a consequence, this gives individuals chance to express all of their emotions and pain without anyone disturbs.

In contrast, on the other hand, outdoor activities also have it own merit. Firstly, mostly outdoor activities are played in team. This can provide for people some communication skills, leadership skills and teamwork skills, which is some skills very important for future careers. Secondly, outdoor activities require more skills than indoors exercise such as endurance and stamina. Because if you exercise indoors, you just stand a place and do not moving too much, so it can’t help you physically like outdoors activities, whereas outdoors activities such as football, basketball or badminton requires many skills. When playing these activities increases your physical health more than indoors exercises.

From my perspective, as an extroverts, I much prefer outdoor activities because I like to play with my friend. It not only gives me some obvious merit, but also create a stronger friendship between me and my friends.

To sum up, I think whether indoor exercise or outdoor activities is better based to what kind of person you are. You can be an extrovert or introvert, which decided a lot whether you think that exercise outdoors or indoors is better than the other options.