The first Ironman was the product of some good-natured bullshitting. At a 1977 awards banquet for a Hawaiian swim club, members argued over whether runners, swimmers, or cyclists were the fittest, finally deciding to hold a race to find out. Ironman competitions are now big business, of course, with full-time professionals and $900 entry fees. But that same spirit has been animating mountain towns, where multisport backcountry sufferfests are all the rage. There are two ways of going about it: hold a mass-start race, like a traditional triathlon, or establish a new route and a fastest known time. Sounds fun, right? Here’s our three-step guide to throwing one of your own.

1. Choose a Bordering-On-Crazy Course

“I was on top of the Grand Teton after climbing it in a day,” says photographer David Gonzales. “When I looked down at Jenny Lake, something clicked.” That something was the idea to ride his bike 23 miles from Jackson, swim across Jenny Lake, climb the Grand, then do it all in reverse back to town. He called it the Picnic. Since his first Picnic in 2012, Gonzales has pioneered similar multisport routes in mountain ranges across the country, including the Cascades and the Rockies. His advice is to pick a route that seems just short of impossible, then do it anyway. Here are a couple rules of thumb.

The more vert the better.��
The Longs Peak Triathlon, a biking, climbing, and run­ning route that begins in Boulder, Colorado, has 11,500 feet of ele­vation gain.��

Lots of sports means lots of fun.��
Two is mandatory. Five, like the run-bike-kayak-hike-ski combo of the Tuckerman Inferno Pentathlon in New Hampshire, is better.

2. Get the Masochists Excited

“When I moved to Santa Fe, it was immediately clear to me that there should be a race like this,” says Mad­eleine Carey, 24, a conservationist who organizes the late-spring Plaza2Peak bike, run, and ski event in New Mexico. She wasn’t sure any of the handful of locals she initially e-mailed about the scheme would respond. But word spread, and on the starting line that first year were a dozen people, including a few strangers. “I was surprised by how many people did it and said, ‘That was awful. I’m coming back next year,’” says Carey.��

Put it in writing.��
Word of mouth is great, but it’s much easier to forward a group e-mail or Facebook event.��

Throw a postgame tailgate.��
You can get extravagant with a full-on barbecue, but even beer and music go a long way after a few thousand feet of climbing.

3. Avoid Lawsuits

While insurance and a permit aren’t necessary for an outing among friends, it gets dicey when participation is in the hundreds. Fred Abramowitz, an attorney in Fort Collins, Colorado, who also organizes the 50- and 100-mile races in Steamboat Springs, gave us some advice to help avoid running afoul of the law.

Keep it small.��
Check local regulations for how big a noncommercial event can get, suggests Abramowitz. “With the Forest Service, for example, the magic number is 75 people, including spectators,” he says. Any larger than that and you’ll need to file some paperwork.��

Money talks.��
On public land, says Abramowitz, “if it’s a commercial operation—­anything that charges a fee, even if it isn’t for profit—you need a permit.” The same goes for insurance: “Once an organizer starts benefiting in some way, you’re obligated to provide some level of safety.”

Don’t ruin it for everyone else.��
“Here in Fort Collins, an unpermitted race through the state forest irritated a lot of locals, and a legitimate permitted race was canceled by the state agency because people were pissed off.”

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Make a Plan

Between cold weather, travel, and family obligations, the holidays can be a tough time to sneak in a workout. And it’s understandable to freak out about missing a week or two of training: your blood-plasma volume starts to decline almost immediately, meaning your heart rate for a given intensity will increase when you return to your regular workouts. But , assistant professor of exercise physiology at the University of North Carolina, brings good tidings. “We all need a break, and the holidays sometimes force us to do that,” she says. The key is not to fight it. “If you don’t plan to take a day off, and you’re forced to by family or travel, you’re stressed about it,” she says. “It’s better mentally to just accept it. If you’re pretty fit, you’ll see adaptations return fairly quickly as soon as you start up again.

What if you’re training for a January skimo race? Smith-Ryan recommends a simple 20-minute high-intensity interval workout: one minute all-out, one minute of rest, repeat ten times. ����

Eat Wisely

All the mandatory big meals between Thanksgiving and Christmas can leave you feeling like a mall Santa by New Year’s Day. But there are a few easy fixes. “So many foods that we associate with the holidays start out healthy,” says dietitian Jennifer Bruning. “It’s the way we prepare them and what we add that can dilute those qualities.” She walked us through the beta on three holiday classics.

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Skip: The deep fryer. “A great example of how we add a lot of fat and salt to something that started out pretty good for you. You may feel like you’re boosting the flavor, but you’re also making it really unhealthy.”��

Serve: A classic roast bird. “It’s got plenty of flavor. The key is to play up those qualities with herbs and spices.” Try a simple rub of thyme, rosemary, oregano, and garlic.

Pumpkin Pie��

Skip: The traditional version. “It’s better for you than most pies, but it’s still not great. The problem is all the fat and sugar.”��

Serve: Pumpkin pie crisps. “Pumpkin is a powerhouse, full of antioxidants and phytonutrients that fight cancer and inflammation. Try amping up the flavor of canned pumpkin with pumpkin pie spices, then serve on toasted whole-wheat tortillas with a bit of cinnamon and sugar.”��

Cranberry Sauce

Skip: The canned stuff. “Cranberries are fantastic for you. The problem is that they’re incredibly tart, so a lot of sugar gets added to make them more palatable.”��

Serve: Homemade cranberry relish. “If you do it yourself, you can really cut down on the sugar by using something ­naturally sweet like orange juice, which is a lot better than just adding table sugar but tastes just as good.”��

Sandbag the Local Turkey Trot

Signing up for a race is a time-honored technique for the motivationally challenged. Some holiday races are big and well organized—­Atlanta has a on Thanksgiving Day, and New York City plays host to a in Central Park. But wherever your in-laws live, there’s bound to be a fun run nearby. It doesn’t have to be a priority for your race season, just something to help balance out the office parties and eggnog.

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Unlike virtually all other��video games, viral sensation Pokémon Go requires its players to get outside and walk around. It has��encouraged masses of players to gather in places like and in search of adorable little monsters. Depending on who you ask, it’s either leading to hoards of smartphone zombies walking into traffic and portends the , or it's creating��spontaneous public happenings that are all part of our .��

Pokémon Go is such a sensation that it’s easy to forget it was only released a��week ago. And as popular as it is, it feels like a somewhat clunky first draft. Its developers have with gameplay tweaks and new features. We had two ideas that could make it much more fun and encourage players to get even more active and go farther off the beaten path.��

Wait, What the Hell Is Pokémon Go?��

Some background, in case you’ve been living under an exceptionally large rock the last few days: in the original��Game Boy��Pokémon games, players would direct a human character around a fictional world, collecting Pokémon and battling other players.��The new mobile game takes that concept and mixes it into the real world—what techies are calling augmented reality.��Players navigate around a cartoonish (but accurate) version of Google maps on their smartphones by physically walking through the world. The map is automatically populated with points of interest: Pokestops, which can dispense valuable items, and gyms, where players can battle one another.��

There are two ways to acquire Pokémon: when the app is open, players will periodically encounter the virtual monsters and can capture them with a skillful swipe of their phone’s screen. Pokémon can also be “hatched” from eggs, which players obtain at Pokestops and hatch once the player has walked a predetermined distance—between two and ten kilometers. ����

#1: Add Better Fitness Features��

The app already tracks players’ steps and distance covered to hatch eggs, and the anecdotal evidence suggests that it is , which we can all get behind. But right now,��the game only gives you credit if it’s running in the foreground. So while it’s theoretically possible to use hiking or running to progress, even an accidental button push in your pocket means no credit for all the hard work.��

A Strava-like option to start an activity could allow the app to run in the background while players get their steps in. It could even allow more interesting metrics like flights of stairs climbed or total feet of vertical gain to advance different aspects of the game. But the feature wouldn’t have to be that explicit. Unless you’ve disabled it, your phone is likely already keeping tabs on your steps at all times through programs like Google Fit and Apple Health. Simply using that data could let active Pokémasters progress without needing to keep the game running at all times. ��

It wouldn’t be the first time the franchise has rolled out a feature like this: a version of the GameBoy game that allowed users to passively train their Pokémon.

#2: Place Pokémon in Far-Flung Outdoor Locations

While it’s true that the the game has encouraged people to get out of the house, its current structure doesn’t reward venturing very far. Points of interest have been crowd-sourced by players of an older game made by the same developers, and they tend to be clustered in city centers and near roads.

Smart players are currently walking short loops in crowded areas, so while they’re covering miles, the effect is less like actual exploration��and more akin��to wandering around trying to find free Wi-Fi. The game is aware of your location—players see more water types by rivers and oceans, for instance. But finding rare, powerful Pokémon has more to do with a player's progression in the game than any particular location, so there’s little incentive to truly explore.��

A pair of enterprising New Zealanders went viral last week��when they to claim an offshore gym, but so far, that seems like more of a fluke than a typical occurrence in the game. We’d like to see the developers putting rare Pokémon and gyms in adventurous locations, like at the end of trails or on top of mountains.

In order for this to happen, the game would need to��change its��mostly��random format. Perhaps the app��could alert you with a push notification��to a limited window where you’d find a particularly desirable Pokémon at the end of a long hike. However,��this tweak��would also involve some technical challenges. Right now��the app won’t work correctly without a strong��data connection, which isn’t guaranteed at many off-the-beaten-path locations. It would also require the manpower to create custom locations—points of interest and Pokémon appear to be almost totally auto-generated at the moment. But surely the app is making enough money to hire some developers to build an offline mode and some custom content?���� ������

A change to focus on far-flung outdoor locations would be in keeping with the treasure-hunt spirit of the original games, in which��rare Pokémon like Mewtwo could only be found in remote places after a difficult search. It would also move players from boring loops near roads to more interesting places. It might even act as a gateway drug for analog outdoor adventuring. Trust us: we know some people might recoil against the idea of smartphone gamers crowding trails. But smart tweaks to the way the game works could mean less face-down plodding through suburbia��and more outdoor adventure with a side of augmented reality fun.

Personally, I just want to catch an on a craggy peak after a long day of climbing. Is that really too much to ask?��

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Long synonymous with urban sprawl, Atlanta is now home to a wide variety of outdoor activities.����

Eastside Trail

Part of the Beltline project that will eventually circle the inner city with parks and light rail, already connects a string of neighborhoods for runners and bike commuters.��

Sope Creek Trails

Seven miles of�� just 20 min­utes from downtown.��

Chattahoochee National Recreation Area

for rafting, beer-­drinking, and jumping off 30-foot cliffs.

Tree Climbers International

Atlanta has retained an impressive canopy of enormous oak trees, and —with a rope and har­ness—at its be­ginner clinics.

Phidippides

​T��� has been slinging Nikes since the seventies running boom.��

Piedmont Park Active Oval

The is a Strava proving ground: the current course record is 2:36.��

The Fish Hawk

The staff will whether you’re chasing North Georgia trout or salt­water trophies. Once you’re outfitted, get a lesson at the in-house school, run with rod maker Sage.��

Outback Bikes

on Wednesday evenings to catch the rowdy 20-mile group ride through the surrounding neighborhoods.

Dick Lane Velodrome��

An with weeknight races. No bike? No problem. There’s a rental fleet on hand.

Ponce City Market

A former Sears warehouse that was into shops and apartments. It features a dining hall full of pet projects by local chefs and a free��bike valet right off the Eastside Trail.��

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On a warm, clear Sunday afternoon��last April, Atlanta Hawks swing man stepped up to a turf-­covered platform brandishing a five-iron. With Pitbull blaring in the background,��Bazemore set his feet and purposefully unwound his six-foot-five frame to send a perfect shot downrange. “Best ball of the day,” he said, stepping back to admire the��arc as it dropped, nearly 200 yards away, into a 15-foot-wide, spider-web-shaped target. As groups of golfers on either side of him plowed through pitchers of beer, a nearby screen flashed congratulations and awarded Bazemore nine points.

Clearly, this is not your grandfather’s good walk spoiled—it’s the Midtown ­Atlanta site of , which has 23 locations across the country. The company transported the driving range into a three-story building, ditched the dress code, and added free-flowing drinks, hundreds of TVs, and pounding music.

Topgolf was invented in 2000 in England by twin brothers Steve and Dave Jolliffe, who were bored stiff with the usual bucket-of-balls approach to perfecting their golf swing. So they created an experience that was more like a video game. They equipped the balls with electronic tags, similar to a ­marathoner’s timing chip, and devised a point system based on shot distance and ­accuracy. When the ball hits one of the targets on the 215-yard range, sensors scan it and the score is added to a running tally.

The company opened its first U.S. ­location in Virginia in 2005 and has since brought on investors including Callaway. Topgolf has done something that ­traditional golf, as Topgolf ­employees call it, has struggled to do: attract new players, particularly young ones. This year’s Tiger-less Masters saw an 11 percent decline in final-round TV viewer­ship, and according to the National Golf Foundation, course closures have outpaced openings for eight years running. Despite the ascendance of fresh faces like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy, the game is especially ­unpopular with young people—­participation by those between 18 and 30 has declined 35 percent since 2006.��

Of the 13 million people expected to visit Topgolf this year, more than two-thirds are under 35, according to company statistics. Half have never played before. The other half aren’t your typical white country clubbers, either. Though the company doesn’t track such data, the visitors I saw were more racially ­diverse and included more women than the local links. It’s not hard to see why: with greens fees at some courses reaching well over $100 per person for 18 holes, ­traditional golf is expensive and stuffy. Topgolf costs between $20 and $40 an hour for your ­entire group, and on Fridays and Saturdays the place is usually packed late into the night. (It’s open until 2 A.M. on weekends.)��

It doesn’t hurt that Topgolf has caught on with celebrities. Rapper Rick Ross recently posted a clip of himself on Snapchat taking some truly ugly swings. And last February, I that Bazemore had been hitting balls with his former Warriors teammates, including reigning back-to-back MVP Stephen Curry. So I asked him if he wanted to play.��

The 26-year-old picked up the game two years ago, he told me, and has since become a Topgolf regular. I hadn’t swung a golf club in a decade before the weekend we met in ­Atlanta, and I immediately sliced a ball straight into the side netting. Zero points. Bazemore, who over the past four seasons went from an undrafted rookie who couldn’t score to a sought-after free agent by working obsessively on his shot, has applied the same sort of effort to his golf form. He didn’t like what he was seeing of mine. “Tuck your front shoulder in,” he instructed. Slice. “But without moving your front foot.” At one point, Bazemore produced a pointer from his bag to indicate my many flaws.

After some practice cuts, it was game on. A fluky couple of bounces had me leading ­after the first round. “You’re going to regret all those pointers you gave me,” I said. Then he busted out a fairway wood and the drubbing began. Afterward, shockingly sore but hooked, I Googled the Topgolf nearest my home in Santa Fe.��

The good news: an Albuquerque spot may be in the works, and there’s further ­expansion planned. In 2013, Topgolf was in nine cities around the country. The ­company aims to have 50 locations in the next three years. As communications chief Adrienne Chance says, “We’re looking forward to ­growing not only Topgolf, but the game of golf ­itself.”

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is bounded on its southern border by Texas and the Rio Grande, with Mexico on the other side. When I went to pick up a backcountry permit on New Year’s Eve, the ranger’s warning was stern: except to scout rapids or in the event of an emergency, landing on the right side was against the law. My girlfriend, Gillian, and I had planned a three-day, 33-mile canoe float through Boquillas Canyon, the farthest-flung and mellowest route in the park. Scouting rapids wasn’t on the menu. What was: the occasional Class II and plenty of time to lounge around looking at stars and drinking champagne. Winter is high season in Big Bend—if so remote a place can be said to have one—and warm days and solitude seemed like a recipe for an easy, romantic float.��

National Parks Centennial

100 reasons to love the parks (and a few things we’d improve)

In the age of Donald Trump and El Chapo, you might expect a little more action along the border. At the put-in later that day, the river was unimpressive: maybe 15 feet across and waist deep. Mexican souvenir salesmen in beat-up metal rowboats appeared to cross at will, and soldiers fishing with sotol reeds wished us Happy New Year as we paddled by.

The first day passed without incident, and we celebrated the end of 2015 with a mug of bubbly and an early bedtime. But overnight the weather turned. An El Niño–fueled storm rolled in, and clouds settled around the top of the canyon. By the time we got going, the problem wasn’t the rain but the wind: the bend of the river and the sheer canyon walls conspired to funnel a gale against the direction we were trying to paddle. As we emerged from the protection of a narrow canyon, we were swept onto the right shore. A few attempts to remedy this made it clear we wouldn’t be going anywhere, so we pulled off to wait it out over the warmth of a fire. When Gillian stood up, she looked like Anderson Cooper reporting on an event that involved FEMA.��

After an hour, we got back in the canoe and, following ten attempts and a couple of near dumps, managed to land on the American side. If we stopped paddling for a second, we moved backward—but we were able to make progress if we tucked in close to shore. A blue heron flew just ahead of us for hours, and morale improved markedly. The problem now was the distance left: we’d lost half a day. Our lazy float was starting to look like an epic mission, and we paddled hard for the rest of the trip, gnawing on energy bars in the canoe and pulling up to camp as night started to fall.

On our last day, we had 15 miles to cover. The great thing about river trips is that you can’t really get lost, and we knew we were looking for the only bridge for miles in any direction. We paddled more and more frantically through the empty landscape, and then it appeared. We were ten minutes early for our pickup, covered in mud, and starving. “Perfect timing!” the driver said.��

In the end, our ordeal was romantic in its own way. We shared a sense of danger and had to huddle together for warmth. But next year we’re going to the Caribbean.

Access + Resources

When: Late October through March.��

How: The closest airport is in Midland; from there it’s three hours by car to the park entrance near the tiny town of Terlingua.

Play: ��and the , both in Terlingua, offer guided trips, canoe rentals (from $50 a day), and shuttles (from $60).��

Stay: Paddlers can camp anywhere on the American side of the river with a $12 backcounty permit, available at the ranger station at Panther Junction.��

Eat: Rub shoulders with local river rats at in Terlingua, just outside the park.��

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The 49th state has 54 million acres of national parklands, thanks in large part to the Carter administration. But so much green goodness can be overwhelming, so we enlisted the help of John Baston, a guide with who has led trips in all eight of Alaska’s national parks. He agreed to a round of rapid-fire word association to pin down what’s great about each one.

National Parks Centennial

See the complete list of 100 reasons to love the parks (and a few things we’d improve)

Kobuk Valley: Sand dunes
Gates of the Arctic: Backpacking
Glacier Bay: Kayaking
​Kenai Fjords: Gulf of Alaska
Lake Clark: Giant lakes
Wrangell–St. Elias: Enormous
Denali: Highest mountain
​K���ٳ�����: Bears

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The best kitchen tools for base-camp chefs.

​Southwest Disk UFO Discada Enterprise Wok��

A two-foot-wide wok made of quarter-inch steel isn’t an unnecessary luxury: it’s a crucial part of your cooking arsenal. With 12-inch legs, it’s the perfect tool for cooking over an open flame. ��

Price $100

Timbuk2 x Blue Bottle Sabbatical Coffee Kit��

The bagmaker teamed up with the Bay Area java giant to create the ultimate portable brewing kit: grinder, kettle, dripper, scale, and mugs, all in one six-pack-size bundle.��

Price $349

GSI Outdoors Stainless Rim Plate��

With a sturdy steel base, this plate isn’t light (nine ounces), but that’s not the point. We like enamelware for its classic mountain-man look. A set of these will put up with years of campsite abuse.��

Price $7

REI Evrgrn��Picnic Table��

There’s no need to schlep a full-size dining setup to your campsite. This compact folding table stands about six inches tall, measures 18.5 inches wide, and has stable aluminum legs and a bamboo top, providing a solid, no-tip platform for chips and salsa.��

Price $70

Jetboil Genesis Base Camp System Stove��

This unapologetically maximalist stove puts out 10,000 BTUs per hour. That means it’ll have a 32-ounce pot of water boiling in just over three minutes. It also has a simmer feature for slow-cooking risotto.��

Price $350

Yeti Rambler Bottle

The masters of cold now make an 18-ounce bottle with a lid. Double-walled insulation keeps water icy for hours, while kitchen-grade stainless steel stands up to anything short of a sledgehammer.��

Price $40

Lodge 7 Quart Dutch Oven��

Reasons we love cooking with cast iron: it’s tough, it’s durable, and the thick walls spread heat. Use it to make a savory stew, then, when you’re finished, tear open a box of store-bought cake mix, nestle the oven back in the fire pit, and voilà—dessert.��

Price $98

Edward Wohl #12 Cutting Board��

Made from a single piece of maple, this sleek surface won’t delaminate like its cheap counterparts. At 22 inches long, it’s big enough for rolling out dough or chopping leeks.��

Price $212

Baking Steel Griddle��

Propped over hot coals, this 14-by-18-inch slab of low-carbon steel evenly distributes campfire heat for perfect pizza or French toast.��

Price $199

Leatherman Juice CS4 Multitool��

The Juice has all the tools you’d expect— can opener, saw, screwdrivers, knife—plus a corkscrew for popping open a bottle of campsite burgundy. Plus, we love that it comes in blue, not just gray.��

Price $84

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Houston may be flat, but its adventure palette is robust. Presenting eight ways to get outside in this surprisingly active city.

Pull Some Plastic

Boulders are scarce around here, so get your send on at the��, then sign up for the two- day outdoor skills clinic so you’re primed for a weekend of cragging in nearby Austin.��

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on Feb 24, 2014 at 4:25pm PST

High Mileage��

Terry Hershey Park and its mixed-use trail are for going long. “We use it for marathon training,” says Mark Coleman, president of the Houston Striders. “It’s 30 miles out and back. No matter what you’re preparing for, you can get your distance.”��

Trail Mix

Some 10,000 people run in Memorial Park every day, and it’s easy to see why: the 2.9-mile loop is a Strava test piece, there’s a track for speed work, and trails allow you to escape asphalt. Bonus: it’s not just for runners. Many of the trails are mountain-bike legal.��

Breakfast

Bakeries don’t typically have a chef who trained at El��Bulli, but����isn’t a normal bakery. There’s a yogurt parfait if you’re feeling virtuous, and the duck breast with a soft-boiled egg on rye is great after a long run in Memorial Park.��

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on Oct 26, 2015 at 7:40pm PDT

Lunch

��opened in 1972, but the OG health-food spot has expanded its clientele beyond Middle Earth crunchies. (Paleos: the menu added meat in ’78.) It’s now a local classic. Try the Smaug’s Delight, a turkey and avocado melt.��

Dinner��

Houston is still full of steakhouses where oil barons wheel and deal while gnawing on cigars. But you can eat well without the artery impact, too. The best restaurant in town, ,��offers a six-course vegetable tasting menu infused with Indian and Japanese flavors.��

Rubber Side Down

With espresso machines and fridges full of beer,����feels more like a clubhouse than a bike shop, but you can still get a brightly colored��Cinelli��or a cough-syrup-themed water bottle (a nod to the local rap scene).��

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on Feb 7, 2016 at 8:40am PST

Swamp Thing��

Houston is a maze of 2,500 miles of jungle-like waterways, and the folks at , in Buffalo Bayou Park, will rent you a SUP or kayak to explore them. If there are waves in Galveston, they’ll also hook you up with a surfboard.��

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Countless products promise to improve our lives by making them easier. (Think laptops, Boa closures, child leashes.) But a new class of industrial designers want to achieve that end by making things harder. That’s why Berlin-based Weng Xinyu, 28, that switches on only when you slot your phone into the base, derailing sleep-disrupting late-night screen time.��

Another example: sitting is bad for you, even if you’re using an ergonomic office chair. So Benoît Malta, a 25-year-old French industrial designer, created a seat that , forcing you to engage your core to stay upright while you sit.��

And because driving to work doesn’t make you (or the planet) nearly as happy as riding a bike, 32-year-old Matthias Laschke, a German industrial designer, devised a with spots for two keys—one for your car and one for your bike lock. Grab the car key and it drops the other one at your feet—a not-so-subtle suggestion that you reconsider your mode of transportation.

“You don’t need extra brainpower to know that using the bike is better for you physically,” says Laschke. “It’s about creating enough friction so that you’re confronted with this decision every morning.”��

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