Prisons and Secure Units

Fresh-Air Fitness equipment has a proven history of providing durable, hard wearing and useful gym equipment to the prison industry. Both HMP Belmarsh and HMP Chelmsford inmates let off steam in their recreation time, using Fresh-Air Fitness kit. There are no loose weights or moving parts in specially our tailored package for the prison installations.

Balance Beams

Balance Beams

These simple, low height, floor mounted bars are remarkably effective for a range of activities for all ages. Use for balancing exercises or for “bunny-hops” over them, either straight back and forth or as a slalom exercises along their length.

Chin Up Bars

Chin Up Bars

A strenuous but excellent exercise for strengthening and building muscles in arms and shoulders. The bars are set at different heights to allow either an unassisted lift starting with arms straight and feet off the ground or an assisted lift starting with the feet on the ground and beginning with a jump.

Double Sit up Boards

Double Sit up Boards

The design and construction of these sit-up boards helps to encourage correct action and to prevent lower back strain, while at the same time putting the abdominal muscles through a fuller range of movement from extension to contraction. Suitable for all ages and abilities.

Leg Lift Station

Leg Lift Station

Used to perform knee raises and leg lifts to strengthen abdomen and upper thighs. Suitable for teenagers and adults.

Parallel Bars

Parallel Bars

This classic piece of gym equipment can be used for a variety of exercises, especially push-ups and dips as well as hand walking along its length to build upper body strength. The truly athletic may want to try more strenuous or adventurous exercises. Bars can be set at any width to accommodate wheelchair users for [...]

Push Up and Dip Station

Push Up and Dip Station

Two sets of parallel bars set at different heights allow for push-up and dip exercises and inclined press ups or assisted squat, a strenuous exercise to develop strength in arms and shoulders. Can also be used for knee raises. A simple and versatile piece of equipment.

Sit Up Bench

Sit Up Bench

The sit-up bench can either be used for performing classic sit-ups with the feet hooked underneath the bar, working abdomen and upper thighs or in the reverse position holding the bar with the hands and raising the legs for a different work-out to the same muscle groups.

Strength Trainer

Strength Trainer

Like arm wrestling but with a built in handicap/ advantage. 2 users compete with each other to turn their wheel against their opposite number. Different sized wheels provide slightly different exercise or allow people of unequal strength to complete. Fun to use it encourages social interaction or used singularly as an arm and shoulder stretching [...]

Triple Pull Up

Triple Pull Up

A strenuous exerciser for arms and shoulders but one of the best for muscle development A variation on the classic chin-up bar, it allows 3 people to exercise simultaneously or to compete!