With a nice and warm weather outside, you might consider an outdoor workout instead of going to the gym for your usual 2-hour routine for a change. With a wide space and natural air, this is the perfect time to warm up and get an excellent muscle-toning and metabolism-boosting workout session.
The first thing you should do is to find the venue for your training – maybe a small playground or a baseball field will be more than sufficient. Here, you can do your warm-ups by spending a few minutes stretching up, and for about 20 minutes, do the series of routines with very little or no rest in-between:
- 50, 75, or 100-yard wind sprints
- hill sprints (if you have a hill or a sloping terrain nearby)
- bodyweight squat variations
- walking lunge variations
- box jump, squat jump, or lunge jump variations
- pushup variations
- mountain climbers on ground
- pull-ups on the playground monkey bars
You can also make a rotation of all the routines or alternate between two of them, whichever you pick. It doesn’t really matter which exercise you choose, what is important is to keep your rest periods as short as you possibly can – about 10-30 seconds – in order to keep the intensity high as steadily as possible. This strategy aims to maximize the hormonal response as well as metabolism response that will bring about the burning of fat as you perform these exercises, despite the short extent of the workout.
When done at a good speed, you will get a perfectly sound training session in 20 minutes or less but with maximum results that will bring you closer to your goal. But even if you are not currently in the best shape, you can make a lighter variation, probably at a lower intensity (but not too relaxed), and move up once you get comfortable with it.
There are, most definitely, some advantages and benefits that can be gained by having outdoor workouts instead of indoor exercises. With fresh air to breathe and in a natural setting, some stimulating effects occur within your body that would possibly cause more calories to burn, as pointed out in some studies. This kind of workout is certainly worth the try.
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