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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.

Feeling that the best way to lose weight more quickly is to work out MORE is the wrong mindset to have - especially when the overall goal is fat loss/body composition change. While the short answer is “yes, exercise burns calories” it’s not as much of the weight loss equation as you would think.

Intensity is relative to each person. A workout is intense if it pushes the boundaries of what YOU are currently physically and mentally capable of (and don’t sleep on the mental aspect, because it is HUGE).

This feeling of “more is better” is a staple within the fitness industry. An idea that has been popularized after decades of clever marketing by fitness gurus and get fit quick schemes for as long as we can remember.

The same mindset has been attached to nutrition and eating LESS, or taking MORE supplements to somehow bypass the need for patience while reaching for our health and fitness holy grail.

When it comes to exercise, we have been led to believe that MORE is better, or even necessary.

Contrary to popular belief, in most cases, this is not true.

Here’s why…

When we take on the “MORE IS BETTER” philosophy, we aren’t considering what is going to be realistic and sustainable for us in the long-term.

The New Year is upon us, and naturally we’re already thinking of what we want to give up and what we want to start doing in 2023.

While we don’t necessarily believe in New Year's resolutions, we do believe in personal growth.

Here are 5 tips we recommend when it comes to setting goals and creating new habits in 2023...

We get it. Getting sick can be frustrating and stressful. It puts a huge damper on our daily routine and our ability to remain consistent with our fitness and nutrition. Here are a few tips and answers to the most common questions that you might have while navigating this season.

Just because the holidays are here doesn’t mean you have to compromise on your goals OR your fun - you CAN have both! Here are some tips we've shared with our Street Parking members on how you can approach holiday parties when it comes to all the delicious food.

What if all you had was a pair of dumbbells? Do you have the confidence in knowing that that's all you need in order to take control of your fitness? Join us for Project April where we follow theProgram A (dumbbell version) of the Street Parking Daily Workout for the entire month of April. All you need is a pair of dumbbells.