Best Fitness Games For Workout

If going to the gym and bulking up the body is your idea of getting in shape, it’s time you reconsider it. From bodyweight training to resistance and high-intensity workouts, here is how you can ace the fitness game without giving up on your workout targets for the year yet again.

- Humra Afroz Khan

The most commonly made (and abandoned) new year resolution is to join a gym and get in shape. While one starts off very enthusiastically, shelling out a fortune to join the swanky neighbourhood gym, the motivation, for most, starts dwindling almost immediately. Till you eventually give up completely, in a week, month, or if you are too persistent (or had made the mistake of taking annual membership), a year. There will, of course, be a hundred reasons to quit, just like there were to join—the regimen feels monotonous; too much work in office; too chilly in the mornings; the instructors don’t know anything; or the classic “It’s been a week and I haven’t lost any weight”!

We agree, going to the gym and working out in the same enclosed space every day can get quite boring and mundane, even stifling, especially if you aren’t too big on weight and fitness issues. However, that shouldn’t keep you from working out and keeping fit. Yes, there are a number of activities that you can do, without confining yourself to the four walls of a gym, or to the fixed schedule of your instructor.

So, when we at SI INDIA went out to see how non-gymmers in New Delhi stayed fit, we were quite surprised with the results. Hordes of men and women—new fitness converts to veterans—across ages, backgrounds and professions are out in their local parks and clubs, as early as 5 a.m. on a winter morning, to exercise. From brisk walking and stretching to doing yoga aasans, body weight exercises and resistance training—they do it all.