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Latest Fitness Craze in Australia Has People Running on All Fours

Posted: 20 Nov 2015 05:50 AM PST

If you’re bored with old-fashioned running, or if you feel that it’s not a complete workout, you might want to try crunning, a new fitness craze that’s taking Australia by storm. No, it does not mean crying while running, it's actually a cross between crawling and running that involves getting down on all fours and moving as fast as you can.

The bizarre workout, best described as your thighs' worst nightmare, was invented by Australian fitness enthusiast Shaun McCarthy. We're not sure what prompted him to come up with the bizarre activity, but he seems convinced that it will revolutionize fitness as we know it. "The only thing that crunning's changed about fitness… is that it's changed everything about fitness," he says.

Russian Martial Arts School Teaching Selfie Stick Self-Defense Classes

Posted: 20 Nov 2015 03:37 AM PST

With more and more people buckling to the selfie-stick trend, a self-defense sports school in Moscow has come up with a unique combat class where students learn to use the stick as a weapon.

This Is Probably the Most Precarious Vehicle Bridge in the World

Posted: 20 Nov 2015 02:11 AM PST

There are plenty of dangerous-looking vehicle bridges around the world, but few as adrenaline-inducing as Kuandinsky Bridge, in Russia’s Trans-Baikal Region.

Stretching 570 meters over the Vitim River, this precarious vehicle crossing is just over two meters wide and features no railing or other safety features to keep the cars from falling into the frozen water if anything should go wrong. Its decaying metallic structure is simply covered with old wooden railway sleepers that become very slippery when covered with ice and snow, which is almost all year round, since this is Siberia we’re talking about.

Kuadinsky-Bridge

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