Without a variable workout, exercise quickly becomes nothing more than a Sisyphean routine of lifting boulders, running up hills, and running away from sudden boulder avalanches. Spice up sweat sessions with today's Groupon: for $25, you get a two-week, six-class introductory cross-training course at Soler's Sports in Helotes (a $100 value). Classes meet Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 6:45 a.m. Choose from the following dates:
- October 3–14
- October 17–28
- October 31–November 11
- November 28–December 9
- December 12–23
- January 9–20, 2012
Soler's Sports' cross-training program provided by G5 Fitness piques potential with a total-body workout spurred by attentive, encouraging coaches. Each one-hour session introduces new exercises with extreme emphasis on safe technique as instructors guide movement with more scrutiny than the director of a ballet held in a china shop. Corralling 10 or fewer students per class, coaches kindle calorie-torching flames with all-over warm-ups to gently bodies to their ideal exercise temperatures. Next, a skill demonstration highlights the proper technique for performing the day's curriculum. Finally, exercisers try their hand at illuminated techniques, which may include squats, kettlebell swings, pushups, running, medicine-ball tossing, or pull-ups. An accompanying nutrition lesson further facilitates results, as internal health coalesces with external sheen. Previous patrons cite a slew of body-bettering benefits from cross-training, including boosts in agility and balance, upped endurance levels, and mended relationships with estranged leather pants.
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The Groupon Guide to: Hiking Gear
Humans were designed to stay indoors, where their delicate skin can't be pierced by hot air or bugs armed with stinging insults. However, if you must venture into the wilderness, it should be under a protective shell of high-performance hiking gear. Here's what you'll need to survive the outdoors:
- Boots: Strap on the heaviest boots you can find. Woodland creatures are attracted to the sound of heavy boots stomping through a forest, as it provides a welcome break from the monotony of a life spent at the bottom of the food chain.
- Bug Spray: All bug sprays are placebos meant to help you overcome your fear of becoming emotionally close with bugs.
- Granola Bar: Nature's candy bars, granola bars come with less shame and a better sharing-with-birds factor than their chocolate-soaked counterparts. Bring a gym bag containing dozens.
- Compass: Spin the Compass is similar to Spin the Bottle. In this classic trailside game, the compass needle spins toward the participant with the most magnetic personality, who is then rewarded with a check for eight dollars.
- GPS: In the forest, much like in the suburbs, every road looks the same. You'll need a GPS to help you find your way back to the exact pile of leaves where you stashed your keys when you arrived.
- Vest: Wearing a vest with cargo pockets gives you a place to store away feelings of jealousy toward nature's constantly renewing youth.
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