Strength Training for the Outdoors

When doing any sort of strength training outside the obvious problem is that you don't have much in the way of equipment and this means that you need to get creative with some body weight exercises if your trying to build true strength then you'll need to be doing exercise which you can't complete over 10 reps with if you've just started training you'll probably be able to achieve this with standard press-ups, sit-ups, squats and similar exercises, but pretty soon you'll find that you are unable to get the same benefits from these exercise.

So what are some great ideas for training outdoors the best advice I can give is to find a kids playground (obviously free of kids at the time) or the fitness trail that are present in a lot of parks at the moment, these areas have some of the best outdoor fitness equipment strangely sometime the kids playgrounds are better then the areas designed for exercise.

So when strength training outside you want to be doing things like incline sit-ups, inverted like in these pictures or you can go for cheap exercise equipment like resistance bands, I love these there great if you want them to build muscle you'll need on of the extra strong ones.  They are good for lateral raises and chest presses, shoulder presses, rows and tricep extensions the only thing I find hard to do with them is Bicep work I just find that you don't get even pressure through out the movement otherwise great piece of kit.

The general rule of strength training outside is to be creative try new things if you hear about some new crazy exercise try it out and decide for yourself the worst that will happen is that one exercise in your workout might fall flat or you'll struggle to do it or maybe look a bit silly doing handstand push-ups against a tree.