The Adventure Course Overview

Concept Summary

The Adventure Course is a new kind of obstacle course that naturally and enjoyably transforms everyday people into fearless adventurers while entertaining onlookers. The patent-pending Adventure Course design enables anyone of any fitness level to play their way to exceptional health and well-being by simply traversing the course at whichever challenge level and speed they choose.

Levels range from extremely easy to extremely difficult, making it challenging for everybody but impossible for no one.

The Adventure Sport utilizes instinctive movements and activities like climbing, throwing, lifting, pushing, crawling, and swinging to develop speed, strength, agility, and focus. 

For entertainment and motivation, spectators watch from an elevated observation area encircling the Adventure Course. They also add to the excitement of the game by offering players encouragement and by physically manipulating certain aspects of the course as players progress through it.

Negotiating the Adventure Course requires no prior experience or special training and exercises the whole being (mind, body, and spirit) more comprehensively than traditional fitness methods. It effectively prepares people for challenging outdoor adventures, as well as everyday living.

This concept is based on the premise that movement needs meaning to be sustainable.  Exercise can be exhilarating and fun when it has meaning within a greater objective – work or play. But exercise isn’t sustainable (or natural) when used as a means unto itself.

The Adventure Sport concept is centered on making exercise meaningful and changing the paradigm from “boring and tedious” to “exciting and fun.”

How the Adventure Course came to be

The Adventure Course was invented in 2003 by personal trainer Scott Sperry. After seeing some of his most committed clients lose interest in traditional exercises (cardio, weight lifting, etc.), he began to experiment with a new approach that combined coordination, balance, functional strength, team building, and a sense of risk to sharpen focus and make the activity exciting.

The adrenaline rush that this new technique produced helped his clients push beyond their ordinary mental and physical limitations and enabled them to meet increasing challenges while having fun. For the first time they were losing themselves in the moment and forgetting about the "work" aspect of the activity. Together, they had discovered that to become sustainable, exercise must embody the same core elements that make playing and watching sports fun and exciting or it won't arouse people and keep them coming back for more.