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My wife and I decided to visit friends in Banff National Park this past weekend. Banff is a beautiful place with mountains, rivers and amazing wildlife. It's also a great place to hike, haven an impromptu strongman workout and then bbq a lot of meat!

 On Saturday we went for a 3 hour hike which was a pretty tough workout for me but the scenery and wildlife made the effort worth while.

On Sunday, my buddy Chris and I hit the river for some fun stone lifting. Stone lifting is a great way to work all kinds of muscles while really hitting your grip at the same time. After we got tired of moving rocks around, we busted out his 20 year old mini-van and pushed it distance. The first truck push was done on gravel with a slight incline. It was really tough so we moved the truck over to a paved road with more of an incline. This was done as a finisher and so was one set to absolute failure.

One the way back down the mountain we came across two young black bears! I tell you, it is hard to beat a weekend of excersising in the great outdoors in the company of mountains, rivers, sun and wildlife. If your training needs a spark, just get outside and find some nice scenery for a change!

Here is a video of the workout we did in Banff.



Here is a video of the nature I filmed between workouts! Talk about a productive weekend!




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