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Rucking has become more and more popular in the fitness community over the past decade or so — nothing is quite as functional as carrying a load while you travel. You may be wondering just how "rucking" will improve your fitness, what are the benefits, and why you would want to get started.

In the Street Parking community, we have a handful of members who ruck regularly and love it, which is why we collaborated with our friends at GORUCK to create an entire Extra Program specifically for rucking.

Street Parking gives its members access to tools to help you take control of your fitness every single day, from the Daily Workouts customizable for your equipment, time, and fitness level to the over fifty Extra Programs to add variety to your training. We are excited to share about a new program to add to your toolbox! Street Parking has collaborated with the co-founders of Between the Ears, Karianne and Bill Anthes, to make a very special program available to our members: The Sisyphus Gauntlet.

Building community is quite possibly one of the best things we can do for our mental health. While we have a strong community at Street Parking, we want to continue to strengthen that community by encouraging EVERYONE and ANYONE to get together with their local Street Parkers (or non-Street Parkers) and throw down by doing one of our many team workout options!

If you haven’t read Part 1, go check that out first to learn more about the 3 Pillars, along with the previous tips and tricks.

Picking up where we left off, let’s talk about 3 More Tips for Fitness Freedom and Meeting Your Child Where They Are At:

Street Parking has plenty of tips and tricks around fitness with youth, but here are three pillars that provide the foundation for our approach to programming (for all ages, but it’s especially necessary for kids and youth) and guidance on how to start. 

When it comes to working out, have you struggled to find and build consistency?

Have you found yourself bouncing from one program to the next? Hoping that somehow your problem of being “inconsistent” or “unmotivated” will fix itself with the NEXT BEST PROGRAM?

You’re not alone.

Between April and the middle of September, we are hosting and/or participating in seven major events across the US, and we will pop up at some smaller, member-run meetups along the way.

What is Street Parking In the Wild all about? What’s the deeper meaning of the phrase? What does it mean for you to get out, “in the wild” and why do we think it’s valuable?

At Street Parking we believe this wholeheartedly, which is why for the month of April, the coaches, team, and community puts our “money where our mouth is” and shows that we believe in our message and program by only using dumbbells for the ENTIRE month. 

Thinking of doing an obstacle course race (OCR) or mud run this spring or summer? Or maybe you’ve already signed up and now you’re thinking, “How can I prep for this thing?”

Street Parking founder Miranda Alcaraz recently reached out to SP members who have logged 1,000 workouts or more — those who have found success in building consistency for years — to ask them what advice they would offer to newer Street Parking members.

Street Parking founder Miranda Alcaraz recently reached out to SP members who have logged 1,000 workouts or more — those who have found success in building consistency for years — to ask them what advice they would offer to newer Street Parking members.

Here are a few approaches to balance and measurement that we have seen work very well, time and time again - and are SIMPLE and SUSTAINABLE for most people in most situations. For us, this approach to finding precision and plugging in the right foods checks all of the boxes! We encourage you to start with the most basic one first and over time working your way through the others.