Yesterday I got to "Go Ape" in the trees at Alice Holt.
"Go Ape" is a tree top adventure course that involves attaching yourself to cables and pulleys then climbing from tree to tree between platforms, lunging into cargo nets, scaling wooden ladders and hopping across "Indiana Jones" style rope bridges, all to reach the end of the course where you zoom down a zip line all the way to the ground.

There are four separate courses that get more nerve racking as you move along. Non of the courses in the forest are for the faint hearted, and the height takes some getting used to with the platforms around 10 meters high. As you're going through the various stages of the course your realise you're really using your core stability to help yourself balance. As I've been training at this sort of thing for a while now (if you have followed my blog) I was doing a few pull ups when hanging off of the cargo nets and rope bridges.

Today in the office I've already heard that most people that got involved are fairly tired and achy from yesterdays activities.

For increasing strength and stamina and more importantly reduce tiredness for this type of activity I recommend "calisthenics" which are body weight exercises that can really improve your physique and fitness levels.

All in all it was a great day!As predicted by London Weather Gal the weather was beautiful! It was hot and sunny all day long and I even caught the sun! So today am sporting a very slight tan :D

I'd recommend "Going Ape" as a great outdoor activity for a good day out to get those muscles and joints moving, get fit and have fun!
"www.goape.co.uk"