Mix up your workout with Obstacles XRT for iOS

Obstacles XRT gives you a simple but high-intensity workout just about anywhere.

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Top reasons you skipped your workout today:

1. It was too dark or cold outside to run.


2. Your hotel didn't have a fitness center.


3. You're sick to death of the treadmill.


4. You let that pricey gym membership expire.

Here's an easy fix for these and other excuses: Obstacles XRT, which bills itself as "extreme reality training" -- a fancy way of saying it's a fitness app. It normally sells for $4.99, but from now through January 31, you can grab it for $1.99.

Two bucks very well spent, in my humble opinion. Obstacles XRT offers guided virtual courses for beginner, intermediate, and advanced fitness levels. Each one employs a series of demonstration videos and audio instructions that'll have you quick-stepping through virtual tires, climbing virtual walls, diving under virtual fences, and so on.

So, for example, in the "Kilburn Proving Grounds" course for beginners (the courses all have real-sounding but meaningless names), you start with a warm-up: 3 minutes of jogging or walking down "the trail" in a zig-zag pattern. From there you'll... [Read more]





by Rick Broida via CNET