Fitness goes gymless with street workout

People looking to lose weight and gain strength naturally flock to fitness centers to shed off extra fat, but at the cost of gym memberships or personal training fees. Now Barrakos, a group specializing in physical culture, is offering an affordable and equally effective alternative: street workout. It’s price tag? Free.

Street workout consists of athletics and calisthenics performed outdoors, commonly in parks and playgrounds. “It is a pure bodyweight workout,” said Barrakos coach and co-founder Daryl Paul Agustin, adding that the style was developed by African-Americans who added new variations to common callisthenics such as push-ups, pull-ups, dips, and squats.