Unless you haven’t noticed, Street Workout has become extremely popular.

Let’s take a closer look at what exactly is Street Workout?

According to Wikipedia,

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 body-weight workout in outdoor parks.

In layman’s terms, it’s Calisthenics a.k.a. body-weight training at the park or what might be called a monkey bar gym or jungle gym.

Nowadays, most metropolitan cities and even towns have some sort of outside gym.

For example, here in Spain, I live in this small town of roughly 50,000 people, and we have many great places to practice Calisthenics, outdoors.

Here is a photo:

We must first qualify “park”.

Below is a design of a typical Street Workout park.

I must say, that in truth, I am not an expert on this subject. This is just one person’s slanted perspective.

If I would to compare street workout with calisthenics the two could be considered very similar, however think of street workout as a combination of calisthenics and bar gymnastics exercises

There is even a World Cup Final held each year in a different global location.

The World Street Workout & Calisthenics Federation (WSWCF ) is the current governing body of this sport.

“WSWCF is international non-governmental non-for profit organization operating worldwide pursuant to international law. It was founded on April 08, 2011 and their main office is located in Riga, Latvia.”

To get a better understanding of what street workout is, check out this video (Time 8:06 minutes)

These guys and gals are pretty amazing and border on the incredible.

I have been a fan of street workout for some years now, and it’s great to see with each passing year, that it’s popularity continues to increase.

I would not be surprised to see it become more mainstream in the future and maybe even an Olympic event.

That of course might be wishful thinking on my part.

But certainly Street Workout is becoming a mainstay in the world of health and fitness.