Urban Workout Tips

By Maria Haymandou

Go to the

park

• New York is filled with great parks

• Plenty of parks have playgrounds with plenty of equipment for a full-body workout

• Use benches for step-ups or box jumps

• You can use the monkey bars, experimenting with speed and even practicing pull-ups

Bodyweight exercises

• Bodyweight exercises don’t require much room

• Tuck-jumps, push-ups, lunges and wall-sits are all easy to learn

• Can be done in even the smallest studio apartment

HIIT it

• HIIT stands for “high-intensity interval training”

• Do bodyweight exercises separated by short rest periods

• Try bursts of sprinting followed by slow jogs

• Alternate periods of high-intensity work with periods of lower intensity effort