Bodyweight Training - The Outdoor Gym

I love the fact that I no longer need any equipment to get a great fat burning, muscle building workout. For instance I was running short on time today so I did a quick nonstop bear crawl workout lasting 7:11 seconds to complete.

Walk off 5 yards then do 50 - 5 yard bear crawls, turn the cone and come up and jog back and go again, no rest.

Sounds easy, But bodyweight training will have you sucking some serious air in a short time.

Yesterday went to the park to train and got down there and it was packed with a family reunion. So I had to change plans when I got there. I walked to one of my favorite 60 yard hills, laid down cones 5 yards apart and did a 5 yard bear crawl right into a hill sprints walked down and went again right away.

Each bear crawl/hill sprint took about 13 seconds for all 10 rounds ( sets ) and the last sprint then I bear crawled head first down the hill no rest until I was where I started.

So far, no equipment in the outdoor gym. But this is what makes the outdoor gym such a great way to train. You can train anywhere or anytime. Often when I travel or am in a different area I always find a place to train, new place new things to do.

The outdoor gym is only limited by your imagination.

The outdoor gym is for the man who wants to train forever, the man who never needs to step inside a gym if he don't want to. It's for the man that doesn't want to clutter his house with equipment. It's for the man that wants to become one of the elite.

You can go anywhere and find a place to train and never ever need a piece of fitness equipment as long as you live. Everything you need is all around, just stop and look.

I will often find odd things to climb or do pullups on. I will do pullups on tree branches, with towels, on rafters, soccer goal nets and even football goal posts, you will build a strong powerful body training as natural as possible, it's almost a guarantee.

Remember, simplicity is the key. The less complicated the better. All you need is some short sprints, some pushups, pull-ups throw in some bear crawls and you got a serious workout.

Of course there is so much more you can do and that's where your imagination comes in to play.

So get outdoors use bodyweight training and train in the gym nature gave you.

John Grube B.C.S is an expert on the subject of bodyweight training He has over 25 years of training experience and is the author of The Wildman Training Program manual, The New Expanded version The Wildman Training Course and The Super Strength Playground Training Manual. For more info: http://www.wildmantraining.com