Summer is finally here, which means it’s the perfect time to exercise outdoors! Outdoor workouts are great because you can bathe in the glorious sunshine and reap the extra health benefits of the vitamin D exposure from the rays. Getting active in the sun can be social too; get your friends or family to join you so that you can all get fit together! No more hours spent staring at a blank wall in the gym, it’s time to get out there and learn to enjoy moving again!

This outdoor workout can be done anywhere and doesn’t require any equipment so you can do it whenever the mood strikes. Maybe in your garden, while the kids play, or maybe in the park with your friends. Always remember to warm up properly before a workout and stay hydrated by always having a water bottle with you.

Round 1

The first round is a small circuit comprising of 5 exercises. Aim to complete each exercise for 60 seconds with no rest. If you are a beginner or you have an underlying injury, take it at your own pace and rest whenever you need. If you want more information on how to do an exercise, click the name of the exercise.

1. High Knees
2. Press Ups
3. Inch Worm
4. Plank Shoulder Taps
5. Burpees

Round 2

The second round is based on a Tabata style of HIIT training. HIIT stands for High-Intensity Interval Training and is a great way to burn fat and get fit. Tabata consists of 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest, and you can repeat that as many times as you like with as many different exercises as you like. In this workout, you'll be completing 8 rounds (1 round = 20 seconds work and 10 seconds rest) to last 4 minutes with all different exercises. Go straight from one round to the next until you are finished.

1. Jumping Jacks
2. Side Steps
3. Shuttle Runs
4. Curtsy Lunges
5. Mountain Climbers
6. Lunges
7. Donkey Kicks
8. Squats

Round 3

Your final round is based more on body-weight strength training. You don't need equipment to have a good workout! Complete 3 sets of 10 reps on each of the following exercises with 30-60 seconds of rest in between each one. This is a full body workout which will target every muscle group. Take the exercises slow and perform each repetition with care, focussing on the muscle under tension.

1. Squats
2. Lunge to kick through
3. Press Ups
4. Back extensions
5. Crunches
6. Glute bridges

Well done for completing the Sundried Summer Workout! On completion of this workout, you should really be feeling the effects! If not, you can either work harder or make the exercises tougher! Remember, exercise is supposed to make you feel good about yourself, and you should fuel your body with nutritious food afterwards. If you find a particular workout boring, don't make yourself suffer by doing it! Find something you love, and you will find that staying fit has never been so easy.

“1 in 5 people now own a Smartwatch or Fitness wearable” - Forrester research.

2016 is set to be the year of fitness wearables, from Fitbit, Apple, Garmin, Epsom, Jawbone, Nike+, Tomtom, Mio and many more, it seems everyone wants a slice of the action, or should I say your action! If you have a tracker wrapped around your wrist, here are some top tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your device.

1. Wear the watch on your less dominant arm

Whilst a lot of fitness watches have apps where you can enter which hand you're wearing the watch on, there are multiple advantages to wearing your watch on the less dominant hand. The main one being obvious, fitness trackers aren't the cheapest bits of kit, so placing it on your less dominant hand is a safer bet as it is less likely to get bashed and broken. Another reason is your dominant hand moves more and, therefore, can give you unfair data where it thinks you waving your arm around is you taking steps, it may not appreciate your rather eccentric hand gestures. However, if you cannot bear to see your watch on your less dominant wrist, most apps will increase the watches sensitivity to allow for the extra movement, providing you change the user settings before strapping up.

2. Make sure you can connect your wearable via Bluetooth

There is nothing more frustrating than working really hard at a workout, eager to look at what feedback you’ve collected only to discover your data ‘failed to sync’. This particular message really gets to me, my phone has been very close to being hurled across the room on far more occasions than I’d care to admit, but fortunately, there’s a way to help prevent this message. Whilst I am not a Bluetooth tech expert, what I have discovered is that Bluetooth doesn’t like to be connected to multiple devices at once, it needs to concentrate. Disconnect any unused connections in your phone settings and always ensure your device is linked to your phone before you exercise in order to avoid the horrific disappointment of lost workout data. Another Bluetooth tip is to make sure it is switched on in both devices and that you are running the most up to date firmware.

3. Don’t be fooled by inaccurate data readings

Whilst it’s great to be logging your activity and analysing your daily results, it's important not to count your readings to the exact number. Just because your wearable reckons you’ve burnt 2056 calories does not mean you should be eating 2056 calories, no more, no less. Despite the fact new technology is creating wearables with more and more accurate and precise data, there is still room for error, be it from the watch itself or human error. Your wearable feedback will give you a good insight into your days performance and should be used as a guideline. Research by IOWA State University studied multiple brands performances during various activities and found that some wearables calorie counts can be inaccurate by up to 50%.

4. Keep it charged

Never start the day with low battery because you know by the time you make it to the gym, your batteries going to have died. Many wearables will have settings in the app which can optimise your battery usage, such as switching off all day sync or swapping to battery saving mode, but really it's a matter of scheduling an appropriate time to add into your routine for wearable charging. If your watch isn’t waterproof, why not charge your watch whenever you wash. It will help you to remember to take it off before showering and prevent breaking it as well as get you into the routine of charging it regularly (or at least we hope you shower regularly)!

5. Utilise and sync with other apps

Your wearable isn’t going to think you're cheating on it by syncing with other apps. Leading fitness apps such as Myfitnesspal, Strava and Map my Run work with most fitness wearables to give you a more rounded picture of your health and can enhance your tracker’s data to help you reach your full potential.

6. Create an accurate user profile

With most wearables apps, you're asked to set up your user before using the device. Data such as your age, weight, height and gender are entered before you can get started, for this reason many ‘keen beans’ whizz through the set up to get to the fun stuff and end up entering estimates or inaccurate data. If you start with inaccurate data, you’re going to finish with inaccurate results. Make sure you weigh yourself, check your height and then enter your details accordingly. Typo’s will make a major difference here, your device can only be as accurate as you tell it.

8. Add friends

What’s the point in working out if you can’t brag about it? With 2015 being the year of the rise of the gym selfie, in 2016 it’s fashionable to get fit. Most fitness apps will allow you to add friends and share your progress with them, as well as win badges and upload your results to social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Joking aside, think ‘strength in numbers’, the more people you add the more people who are there to remind you to get your butt moving and keep you motivated!

9. Update your progress

Your calories burnt are the most effective when all your personal details are accurate. If you're new to a fitness regime it is within the first 12 weeks of a programme where your body adapts and changes most drastically. A healthy weight loss is 1-2 lbs per week. Any changes in weight need to be updated as you progress to keep your tracker accurate. Most fitness apps will also then create you a graph of your progress and suggest hints and tips to keep you motivated, as well as offer congratulations for what you have already achieved, like a virtual pat on the back.

10. Remember to wear it

It sounds daft but even the best fitness trackers aren’t psychic. Your tracker can’t do much good if you’ve left it at home. It happens, and some apps have prepared for that, Fitbit offer ‘mobile track’ in their settings which means when you do leave your beloved watch at home, the app will still save your steps through mobile GPS tracking, providing you don't forget your phone as well!

Before buying a watch be sure to read our ‘Wearables Review’ section to get the latest info on which watch is right for you!