Thinking of starting to do "park-workouts" while ditching my gym - General

Hey everyone, ive been bulking for about a month, gonna go for another month till around the end of February. My gym membership is gonna run out around then too, and money to extend it isnt an issue. But i've been in the gym scenery for about a year and a half, and am gonna start cutting end of february. Im thinking of ditching the gym membership and attempt to do a lot of cardio (7-10 km runs) and start doing park workouts. Basically I want to get lean in the 3 months before summer officially starts via park workouts and bodyweight workouts (ex pushups). Does anyone have any experience and can inform me if its possible to do this? Or is sticking with the gym routine a better idea? Info : Im 160 lbs, bench 245 MAX (only 1 rep). Sitting around 9% bodyfat. Im already pretty cut, but im determined to be the biggest and leanest guy on the beach when the time arrives.

If you can bench 245, I don't think push ups will quite cut it but it's all up to you. Also why would you cut if you're already at 9% bodyfat, if you keep cutting trust me that you'll be the leanest but smallest guy on the beach as opposite to leanest and biggest. Depending on your height, at 160 lbs 9% bodyfat, you're already really really small unless you're 5'2.

[QUOTE=Heigou;43695301]If you can bench 245, I don't think push ups will quite cut it but it's all up to you. Also why would you cut if you're already at 9% bodyfat, if you keep cutting trust me that you'll be the leanest but smallest guy on the beach as opposite to leanest and biggest. Depending on your height, at 160 lbs 9% bodyfat, you're already really really small unless you're 5'2.[/QUOTE] Im 5'10

Yeah, you'll be far from the biggest guy around at 160 lbs and 5'10, specially if you're going to cut which means you'll be even skinnier. [editline]28th January 2014[/editline] You should consider bulking.

You are skinny, bro. At that height you should need like additional 8-10lbs of lean muscle. IMO you should aim at lean 170-175 lbs at that height, if you want to call your self big-ish, with a big "ish". You should postpone your beach plans for the next summer.

bulk.

depends on your goals. if you wanna lift big, lift big at the gym. if you wanna do things like muscle ups, flags, one armed pushups, plaches, handstands, etc., you can switch to the park. doesnt really matter whether you're gaining or losing, so long as you keep that progressive overload going with harder bodyweight exercises or heavier iron. or even both. ive posted this a lot recently but [url=https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2oknZg-EI8xenpWUWFidDc1aDQ/edit]this[/url] seems like a solid bodyweight routine. as long as it keeps challenging you and you like doing what youre doing, it will do well by you. also consider investing in rings or weighted vests if you wanna get serious because ring pushups are way harder than you would think. [editline]31st January 2014[/editline] also it might be harder to track progress if you go to the "park" workout in terms of strength gains. with traditional weightlifting, you can just look to see how much more weight you put on the bar. not so simple with bw workouts. also im tempted to say that for raw strength weightlifting is your best bet but im not really an expert there. (though gymnasts are some crazy strong fucking people, truth be told.)

When people say park workout all I think of is this [video=youtube;mEcubbF3kI8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEcubbF3kI8[/video]