What is outdoor exercise equipment?
Fresh-Air Fitness outdoor exercise equipment is professionally designed and developed fitness equipment, to be permanently installed outdoors, making it free to use and accessible for all. Its clever design makes outdoor exercise safe to use with the resistance being provided by the user’s own body weight.
A green gym or trim trail is the perfect solution to encourage outside exercise.
Where would outdoor fitness equipment be used?
Fresh-Air Fitness equipment is suitable for a wide range of locations and facilities, in fact almost anywhere where there is open space and people with some time to spare e.g.
- Parks / Recreation Areas / Community Areas
- Schools / Colleges
- Golf Courses / Seniors’ Facilities
- Hotels / Cruise Ships
- Holiday Parks / Military Bases / Prisons
- Motorway Services
- Business Parks / Commercial Centres
- Trim Trails
Who is a green gym for?
The great thing about Fresh-Air Fitness equipment is that it is for all ages and for beginners to advanced athletes. It is attractive and fun to use. Some installations have been called playgrounds for adults (and why not? Why should children have all the fun?) The trim trail units can be used individually or in pairs or groups. It is ideally suited for group classes and exercise programs and installed as a trim trail or green gym.
Why install a fitness park or trim trail?
For many people those first initial steps to becoming more physically active can be the hardest. Fresh-Air Fitness can create the gateway to a healthier lifestyle for people of all ages. Being free, convenient and accessible to all, it removes many of the barriers that might otherwise prevent people from taking those first steps. Well-documented research has shown that even small amounts of regular exercise have measurable benefits towards physical and mental health and wellbeing.
Other benefits and positives of an outdoor gym
- Promotes use of public spaces and parks
- Low-cost facility with widespread benefits
- Low maintenance and running costs
- Strong vandal resistant construction
- Very low carbon footprint
- Aligns with Government policies
- Promotes inter-generational and family activity
- Demonstrates that positive action is being taken
- Community facility open to all and of benefit to all
- Acts as an advertisement to promote healthier lifestyles
- Grants and funding available
- Excellent form of Ecotherapy
