How to Use Natural Settings to Up Your Fitness Game

How do you transform an ordinary cardio workout into a more robust physical challenge?

By Experience Life Staff | Experience LifeNovember 21, 2013

I’m fortunate to live in an area with many paved and wooded trails, hills, and ponds with fantastic floating bridges.

The other day I was out enjoying one of our few remaining warm, fall days in Minnesota with a nice run. Sometimes I like to mix up my runs with a little “bonus” by lunging across one of the floating bridges (pictured above).

I didn’t do the entire length of the bridge … I got to 200 lunges, which was more than enough (I paid for it the next few days)!

Do you have any creative ways that you transform an ordinary walk or jog into a more robust physical challenge? Let us know by commenting below or tweeting us at @experiencelife.

Experience Life Staff Christy Rice is the circulation coordinator for Experience Life.

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