Make Staying Fit This Summer FUN With A Playground Workout!
If you find yourself taking your children to the park this summer for some outdoor entertainment you can make the most of this time too!
Get your bottom off the park bench and give these playground workout moves a go!
~ Park Bench Step Ups (8-10 each leg)
~ Push Ups (8-10) can modify by performing against park bench
~ Picnic Table Hip Bridge (8-10 each leg)
~ Monkey Bar Pull Ups (5-10) modify by jumping to top of pull up and slowly lowering to bottom
~ Picnic Table Jumps (8-10)
~ Sprints – invite your children, increase laughter, engage your core
How To Use
Perform these moves straight through as a circuit repeating 2-4 times or pair up into super sets, completing each pair 2-4 times in a row – take a short rest and move on to the next super set.
No excuse why outdoor summer fun cannot also help you achieve your fat loss goals! Get Up – Get Moving and Get Results!
Leave a comment below once you give this playground workout a go!
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I do this all the time — especially comes in handy while kids are at sports practice. I just take the little kids to the playground and I get my workouts in while everyone has fun. If I didn’t find creative ways to fit in my workouts they just wouldn’t get done!
How fun! Can’t wait to try it
WOW! You make the pull ups look so easy! On the Picnic Table Hip Bridges, do you lower you rear all the way to the ground or just before it touches?
Will try it this afternoon. Thanks for posting these sruvival tips!!
Thanks Holly — we’re headed to the beach this weekend and was looking for a fun way to incorporate a workout!
Nice form on everything Holly and way to crank out the pull ups. Excellent sprint race with Tyler at the end. I love doing my workouts on the playground too.
Scott Colby
I agree you make pull ups look so easy, but I know how hard it is as I still bend my knees by pushups. You look so sleek,yet are so strong… I like your thinking flexibly. We can extrapolate benches to wherever we may be, and that’s a great insight I gained. thanks, Rosalie
Holly–I swear you a psychic! I leaving on vacation today and was wondering what to take (did not want to pack my weights to take to my parent’s house)..I was just going to take your bodyweight moves—but this came at the perfect time! Woo hoo! Thanks!
and I have bad english. try..You are a psychic!…
That was awesome. The kids have a playground in the backyard, and although I have tried to reach the monkey bars, I can’t seem to even dangle for a minute. What kind of exercises can I do to strengthen my body to actually be able to do a pull up? I am doing push ups, not many but can do at least 8. I find that my low back starts to cave in(low back pain) and then can’t seem to hold my core for longer than 8. Were those triceps push ups? Cause those are really hard for me now.
Holly ~ you rock!
I love doing my playground workouts! It’s so much fun… mind you, can’t do to many pull ups, my max is 5 ~ somthing I’m working on though!
The playground you are in looks pretty empty… I usually go and by the time I’ve started or half way through it’s got people starring… I just stay focused on my workouts. Greece isn’t known for a lot of parks and playgrounds! Let alone anything green, like trees!
Excellent challenging workouts and you have great form! I can’t do a single pullup but I’m working towards it.
Looks great!! I will try it out when I am on vacation!! Thanks
Awesome workout and what’s even better I saw Pat with overhead lunges, and on the TRX,and Tyler getting his workout in too. Awesome way to sneak in family and make it fun. Thanks for sharing.
Don’t think I can do some of those yet, and unfortunately, I have to be carefully with lying on the ground at our parks, as we have fire ants in Florida. However, it did give me ideas on things I can do, ways I can adapt. Thanks!
While watching the video, I started wondering if I could do some of the exercises. Well guess it’s time to find out. My kids are due a trip to the park. Can’t wait to see how far I can go. Thanks Holly for all your tips and workouts.