Street workout
Street workout is a physical activity performed mostly in outdoor parks or public facilities. It is a combination of athletics, calisthenics, and sports. Street Workout is a modern name for bodyweight workout in outdoor parks.
A typical street workout routine often consists of exercises such as pull-ups, chin-ups, push-ups, dips, muscle-ups, sit-ups and squats. Street workout also involves some static (isometric) holds such as the human flag, front lever, back lever and planche.
Street workout has been widely popularized through YouTube and is popular among younger generations. Some of the main appeals of Street Workout over more traditional activities are: It is completely free, it promotes healthy living and socializing and a desirable physique can be attained with it.
Basics of Street workout
A typical street workout consists of:
- Athletics exercising - a system of exercises with various levels of exertion provided for health strengthening, development of strength and stamina, as well as, for shaping an athletic constitution. Athletics exercising is used to increase strength level, develop physical shape and for rehabilitation.
- Calisthenics (Kalestenos) – is a complex of many simple exercises which are performed using purely body weight. The aim of these exercises is to train muscularity strength and to evolve comprehensive fitness.
Teams
In Street Workout people often create teams, biggest world list is on madbarz.com/teams website, there are 389 teams on the list but number is growing rapidly.
World Championships
The first World Championship took place in Latvia, August 27–28, 2011. The fourth World Championship took place in Moscow, Russia, July 26, 2014.[1]
World Champions[2]
2011: Yevgeny Kocherha (Ukraine)
2012: Andžejus Žilo (Lithuania)
2013: Vladimir Sadkov (Russia)
2014: Eryc Ramiro Ortiz Avendano (France)
2015: -
World Street Workout and Calisthenics Federation
WSWCF was founded in Riga, Latvia 2011. The current president of the WSWCF is Maris Slezins
References
- ↑ World Street Workout and Calisthenics Federation
- ↑ World Street Workout and Calisthenics Federation
External links
- Madbarz - one of best bodyweight and callisthenics apps
- Street Workout Slovenia - Športno društvo Jekleno Telo
- World Street Workout & Calisthenics Federation (WSWCF)
- Article about Street Workout activism, with an interview from Maris Slezins, the current president of WSWCF
- Barstarzz, an international calisthenics team
- Global site for finding teams and athletes
- First Slovenian Street Workout Site
- First Bulgarian Street Workout Site
- BlockWorkout, the UK's largest street workout movement
- Phoenix Workout, the official calisthenics team from Prague
- street fitness & workout