Making an exercise trail in your woodland for “parcours” in the forest
by Angus, 31 August, 2012, 2 comments
You can usually jog round your woodland but this doesn't give you all the exercise you might want, so you could create a trail with different exercises at each stop. These are popular in woodlands in Switzerland, France and Germany. At each stop you might do pull ups on a bar, or balance along a stabilised log or jump along a set of steps at different heights.
At first such outdoor gymnastics might seem a like a childish pursuit more suited to the playground than a woodland, but there's a lot more to these fitness trails than you'd think. People take them very seriously and if you think of how much people pay to go to their gyms, this is like a giant free outdoor gym. People using these exercise trails say they like doing their exercises in harmony with nature. Read more...
