Ten ways to be the toughest girl or guy in town:
1. Train outdoors in all weathers. Rain, wind, snow, hail. Train when other people just stay in bed.
2. Add a ‘finisher’ to your workouts. Train your socks off, until you are lying on the floor, literally unable to do anything more. Then do another exercise.
3. Train till you throw up. If you haven’t puked, you’re not working hard enough. Hill sprints are one easy way to make you feel truly nauseous.
4. Take part in a challenging event, the tougher, colder, muddier, the better. Try Tough Guy, Grim Challenge or similar.
5. Get yourself a beast skill like muscle-ups, L-sits, one-arm press-ups. Basically a bodyweight strength exercise that makes people go ‘wow!’
6. Go swimming in the sea in December. Without a wetsuit.
7. Learn a fighting art.
8. Train in the most basic accommodation possible. Like an unheated shed or a deserted wasteland. Not health clubs that give you a free towel.
9. Are your friends scared of training with you? Why the hell not?!
10. Ignore pain. Pain is just weakness leaving the body!
So, how tough are you? 
 Stumble it!
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I misread the title as “How to be hard as snails”. That was confusing.
Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it…
Does a homemade obstacle course built in the
backyard count? lol
It’s getting pretty damn cold over
here and I’ve been out working it lately.
Homemade obstacle course? Cool! What’s it consist of?
Train HARD, play HARD, fight HARDER.
Don’t act tough, unless someone disrespects you then unleash HELL!
Nice one Gubes.
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Vanders’
Well put as ever, Vanders!
I have a ladder at the start, some cones set up to run around, a climbing rope tied to a tree, an old
swing set that now gets used as a pullup/dip
station, tires set up to run thru, a makeshift
climbing wall, a small sand pit with logs waiting
to be carried and/or thrown.
I do a few log thorws, carry one of them around
the house while running and then do the whole
circuit again in reverse. Starting with the
carry, stopping to do some throws and so on.
It’s not perfect, but it’s a good workout.
Sorry for the long post! lol
Wow, that sounds brilliant! What made you get into training that way? It’s somewhat unusual.
Mostly harkening back to my days in the service.
I think that’s where the inspiration for the
O course came from.
That and the fact that I am a big fan of variety
in training. I need something to keep me from
getting bored quickly.
I’m the same. Sometimes I worry that I am changing things up too much. On the other hand, I am just training to be fit and strong generally, not for any specific sport or exercise. So in a way it doesn’t matter what I do so long as it’s a decent exercise and I work hard!
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