Does anyone remember the outdoor gym I suggested last year for the open space?
Does anyone remember last years post about maybe getting some outdoor work out facilities on the open space.
I wrote to Joan Walley and she wrote back telling me about the cycle scheme. No one on the estate seemed to fussed either.
Well, looks like some one in the city reads the site, or is full of brilliant ideas to.
In todays Sentinel, the article "City outdoor gym plans to tackle obesity" talks about ...
OPEN-AIR fitness facilities are to be installed in public parks in a desperate bid to boost exercise levels.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council and NHS Stoke-on-Trent are using the European-style park gyms as part of their strategy to get 30,000 more people physically active by 2012.
One idea we have come up with is the park gym, which is very popular in many European cities.
"We want to pilot this idea in Longton Park and we are now just waiting for planning permission to proceed."
Now who'd want to see this sort of equipment in our park?
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Not in the Open- Space
Personally I think this is a good idea only if these gyms are to be put in places like Hanley Park, Tunstall Park and Longton Park. Putting them in local smaller parks will only cause problems. I for one would be 100% against any such proposal to but any facility like this in the open space purely on the grounds that it will attract even more undesirables to the area it is bad enough having to tolerate the antics that go on in the sports court with so called mature adults having to play football fueled with alcohol.
penny pinching idea
I agree with Bryn it would just attract the wrong sort. I think it is a council penny pinching idea that will not work. I you save money by getting rid of expensive fitness facilities like Public Baths and gyms but you keep the goverment staticians happy by putting in low cost out door gyms. The down side is that they will be trashed by yobs in no time at all. Another great idea with very little thought behind it. But I do belive they would be used and effective if they were put with an existing supervised facility say like Clough Hall or Alsager leisure.
Bathpool park
They've put the outdoor exercise gym along the path/road in bathpool by the play area. (kidsgrove end).
Theres about 8 items and pretty good. Problem is that you start using them and the passing folk look at you like some kind of fitness freak!!
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