or simply greater fitness, here are a couple of things you can do. Try doing a set of chin-ups and then going for a sprint, walk back to where ever it is you are doing your chins and do a set of pull-ups, and do another sprint. The sprints don’t have to be all out, some can be slower, some faster, use your imagination and don’t make any hard-and-fast rules.

Try doing this about ten times, trust me, you will be feeling it come tomorrow morning. For those of you who are not big on chins and pull-ups, give this a try. Instead of chins do

Think back for a minute, when you were a kid, did you ever think of staying in shape, exercising or working out. If you are anything like me, chances are you are thinking, no way, I just played and played like there was no tomorrow. Now here is the kicker, think back again, what did you do when you were playing? I know what I did, we went to the park and played baseball, ran around, and rode our bikes everywhere.

Never once did I think about how many times I ran around our makeshift bases when I was trying to turn a single into a double or how many times I made it all-the-way across the monkey bars. We were just having fun, being kids, doing what came naturally, running and jumping and playing games. The thing is all the while, we were getting in an incredible workout, day after glorious day of summer vacation. I realize that the vast majority of us could not possibly spend all our time, running around outside to get in shape, but don’t worry there are ways around that.

If you have kids, you are already one step ahead, take them to the park and simply run around with them. Think of it this way, if they climb the slide, you climb the slide, if they run on the grass you run on the grass, in other words, do not worry about how much work you put in, just run around and have fun.

This serves two purposes, first, most of us, have a routine, I am going to go to the gym and walk on the treadmill for an hour and that is what we do. In-and-of itself this is not bad, as consistency in the gym is the only way to make gains, but sometimes we all need a break from the norm and this is the perfect solution.

Second, by going to the park as opposed to the gym, you will be stressing muscles you might have forgotten you have, and this is a wonderful way to build those muscles up. Also, and this does not get much play, but I’ve felt for a long time that while the gym is a great place to build muscle, we all need to incorporate real world activities into our routines to kind of balance out that gym work, like cutting the grass and gardening.

For those of you who do not have kids, but would still like to take advantage of this form of training for variety or simply greater fitness, here are a couple of things you can do. Try doing a set of chin-ups and then going for a sprint, walk back to where ever it is you are doing your chins and do a set of pull-ups, and do another sprint. The sprints don’t have to be all out, some can be slower, some faster, use your imagination and don’t make any hard-and-fast rules.

Try doing this about ten times, trust me, you will be feeling it come tomorrow morning. For those of you who are not big on chins and pull-ups, give this a try. Instead of chins do

or how many times I made it all-the-way across the monkey bars. We were just having fun, being kids, doing what came naturally, running and jumping and playing games. The thing is all the while, we were getting in an incredible workout, day after glorious day of summer vacation. I realize that the vast majority of us could not possibly spend all our time, running around outside to get in shape, but don’t worry there are ways around that.

If you have kids, you are already one step ahead, take them to the park and simply run around with them. Think of it this way, if they climb the slide, you climb the slide, if they run on the grass you run on the grass, in other words, do not worry about how much work you put in, just run around and have fun.

This serves two purposes, first, most of us, have a routine, I am going to go to the gym and walk on the treadmill for an hour and that is what we do. In-and-of itself this is not bad, as consistency in the gym is the only way to make gains, but sometimes we all need a break from the norm and this is the perfect solution.

Second, by going to the park as opposed to the gym, you will be stressing muscles you might have forgotten you have, and this is a wonderful way to build those muscles up. Also, and this does not get much play, but I’ve felt for a long time that while the gym is a great place to build muscle, we all need to incorporate real world activities into our routines to kind of balance out that gym work, like cutting the grass and gardening.

For those of you who do not have kids, but would still like to take advantage of this form of training for variety or simply greater fitness, here are a couple of things you can do. Try doing a set of chin-ups and then going for a sprint, walk back to where ever it is you are doing your chins and do a set of pull-ups, and do another sprint. The sprints don’t have to be all out, some can be slower, some faster, use your imagination and don’t make any hard-and-fast rules.

Try doing this about ten times, trust me, you will be feeling it come tomorrow morning. For those of you who are not big on chins and pull-ups, give this a try. Instead of chins do

. Think of it this way, if they climb the slide, you climb the slide, if they run on the grass you run on the grass, in other words, do not worry about how much work you put in, just run around and have fun.

This serves two purposes, first, most of us, have a routine, I am going to go to the gym and walk on the treadmill for an hour and that is what we do. In-and-of itself this is not bad, as consistency in the gym is the only way to make gains, but sometimes we all need a break from the norm and this is the perfect solution.

Second, by going to the park as opposed to the gym, you will be stressing muscles you might have forgotten you have, and this is a wonderful way to build those muscles up. Also, and this does not get much play, but I’ve felt for a long time that while the gym is a great place to build muscle, we all need to incorporate real world activities into our routines to kind of balance out that gym work, like cutting the grass and gardening.

For those of you who do not have kids, but would still like to take advantage of this form of training for variety or simply greater fitness, here are a couple of things you can do. Try doing a set of chin-ups and then going for a sprint, walk back to where ever it is you are doing your chins and do a set of pull-ups, and do another sprint. The sprints don’t have to be all out, some can be slower, some faster, use your imagination and don’t make any hard-and-fast rules.

Try doing this about ten times, trust me, you will be feeling it come tomorrow morning. For those of you who are not big on chins and pull-ups, give this a try. Instead of chins do

by going to the park as opposed to the gym, you will be stressing muscles you might have forgotten you have, and this is a wonderful way to build those muscles up. Also, and this does not get much play, but I’ve felt for a long time that while the gym is a great place to build muscle, we all need to incorporate real world activities into our routines to kind of balance out that gym work, like cutting the grass and gardening.

For those of you who do not have kids, but would still like to take advantage of this form of training for variety or simply greater fitness, here are a couple of things you can do. Try doing a set of chin-ups and then going for a sprint, walk back to where ever it is you are doing your chins and do a set of pull-ups, and do another sprint. The sprints don’t have to be all out, some can be slower, some faster, use your imagination and don’t make any hard-and-fast rules.

Try doing this about ten times, trust me, you will be feeling it come tomorrow morning. For those of you who are not big on chins and pull-ups, give this a try. Instead of chins do

or simply greater fitness, here are a couple of things you can do. Try doing a set of chin-ups and then going for a sprint, walk back to where ever it is you are doing your chins and do a set of pull-ups, and do another sprint. The sprints don’t have to be all out, some can be slower, some faster, use your imagination and don’t make any hard-and-fast rules.

Try doing this about ten times, trust me, you will be feeling it come tomorrow morning. For those of you who are not big on chins and pull-ups, give this a try. Instead of chins do a set of push-ups, then take a sprint, walk back and try doing some explosive push-ups where you try and clap your hands while you are in mid air. Again, regardless of what exercises you choose I know you will be feeling it come the next morning.

SOME TIPS

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that because you are not in the gym or on the treadmill you won’t get hurt. Nothing is further from the truth. If this is going to be your first visit to a park in too many years to count, take it easy and warm up your legs for the sprints by walking around the park a few times just to get a little sweat going.

Same thing goes for the chins, pull-ups and push-ups make sure your upper body and core muscles are good and warmed up before starting.

If you follow this routine and don’t get too crazy I know you’ll be seeing a better conditioned body in no time!