Thursday Lunch-Break Park Workout

Pushups, dips, and rows on playground equipment

Thursday's park session — pushups, dips, and rows on whatever the playground provides.

The logic of an outdoor workout with no equipment is that the equipment question disappears. A bar to hang from and a bench to press against cover pushing, pulling, and most of what general strength work requires. Rows on a low bar are the piece most home routines skip, and they are the piece that keeps shoulders healthy when everything else is pressing.

The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans put muscle-strengthening work at two days a week for adults, which a lunch break covers comfortably.

Related: the Friday park session and the morning routine behind it. More at fitness challenges.

Train within your own ability. Nothing here is medical advice.