Jeff Cavaliere keeps coming out with absolutely sick free workout routines. If you’ve read other posts on this blog, you’ll know how much I respect Jeff’s advice. He provides the most innovative, unique, and undeniably effective advice you’ll ever find. He literally does exercises I’ve never even thought of before. Anyway, in this video he presents one of the coolest playground work out routines ever.
This workout is awesome because you can do it for free. Not only that, I have two sons, a 3.5 year old and a 3 week old. As summer approaches, I see myself spending a lot of time at the park. since I already don’t have time to go to the gym, you better believe I’m going to try some of these exercises when I’m out with the kids.
1). Dip Pullup Combo
Position yourself up high, feet out in front of you. You’re doing dips on a single horizontal bar in front of you. I’ve never seen this before, but it clearly works out your shoulders and chest incredibly well. After the dips, you want to drop down and do pullups on the same bar.
2). Hanging Seated Tucks
You want to jump up and hang from two bars. Once in position, you lift your legs up and then push them straight out and bring them back in. It’s an incredible core exercise.
3). Scaling Planks
You want to get into a plank on the opposite ends of the monkey bars. Once in position, you’ll engage your core muscles, just like in a regular plank. But here’s the rub, since you’re on a ladder, you’re going to scale it and go up and down repeatedly. You can see how tired he’s starting to get after this exercise.
4). Mr. X Crunch
In this exercise, you grab on a pair of rings, then spread your feet apart so your body looks like an ‘X’. Then you bring your legs all the way up, working not only your stomach, but also your back.
This circuit works out your entire body. You can throw in some lunges, squats, jumps, etc. to workout your lower body. Like Jeff says, there’s no room for excuses here, just get to it. The weather is nice, it doesn’t cost anything, and you’ll feel a lot better if you stick with it… not to mention appreciate the results of all your hard work.
