Monday 18 August 2014

Parks, playgrounds offer fresh air alternatives to gym workouts

Chris Freytag, a personal trainer and health coach with the American Council on Exercise, loves the gym but lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city notorious for brutal winters. “Step up and down on curbs and park benches.” A child’s playground offers core-strengthening possibilities from deep plank pushups, with feet placed on swings, to training with resistance bands slung around poles, to monkey bar pull-ups, she explained. In his book “Beat the Gym,” Connecticut-based running coach and personal trainer Tom Holland said running on a treadmill is slightly easier than running on the ground. New York City-based personal trainer JR Allen, said the first benefit of the outdoor workout is balance. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

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