Fitness Adventure Series: What even ARE these things?

Roz Ray
3 min readMay 18, 2020

A quick guide to the world of Workouts + Fiction

Welcome to the Fitness Adventure Series, the low-fi version of virtual reality. Fitness Adventure Series are there for anyone who has ever felt the urge to not only watch or read an action scene, but be in the action scene, much like a Darebee workout or Zombies, Run!

Let’s break it down:

What A Fitness Adventure Series Is

A Fitness Adventure Series is an action-adventure story broken up into parts (like the serialized novels of old), or chapters. Like any good action story, each chapter has at least one action scene, and every action scene is accompanied by a workout which mirrors — to the extent possible — what the protagonist of the story is doing. If the the protagonist is climbing up a mountain, maybe the reader will be instructed to do mountain climbers. If the protagonist is trying to hit a monster over the head, maybe the reader will be instructed to do wood-choppers. Whatever action the action scene entails, the reader will get to do a facsimile of it in the safety and comfort of their own homes.

Anatomy Of A Fitness Adventure Series

Here on Medium, the narrative portion, or the story, will look like normal text (what…

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Roz Ray

Writes, teaches writing, and builds houses in Seattle, WA. To see more work, visit www.rozray.net