Outdoor Fitness
Adults
What is Adult Outdoor Fitness Equipment?
Adult Outdoor Fitness Equipment offers many benefits to the local communities in which it is installed.
It is designed to provide a free access facility offering the benefits of Cardio Vascular and repetitive exercise patterns.
It helps promote healthy living and provides a gateway for wider fitness activities.
The equipment is intended for people aged 14+ with an overall height of 1.4m and overall height of 1.4m and over.
Benefits of outdoor fitness areas for adults include :
- Assisting communities to get more physically active
- They are free
- Safe for all ages
- Within walking distance of people’s homes
- Inclusive for all abilities
- Social inclusion
- Encourages people to become more active
Children
Vale Sport and Leisure Ltd welcomes the governments decision to invest in sport for our future generation.
Young children learn about the benefits of exercise paving the way for a healthier future.
This is a vision shared by many schools who are investing in facilities for children to exercise and learn good habits from a young age.
Our outdoor gym installations are used all year round and can be found in many parks, recreation areas and schools. They are a fun way of bringing exercise into every day life and teaching children to stay fit and healthy.
Children are learning about the benefits of exercise, what it does physically to the body and the mind, how it helps with concentration and how combined with a healthy diet can benefit them in future years.
Junior Schools
We have several different packages to suit every budget and every project.
Our children’s outdoor fitness equipment has been specially adapted to suit the height of children.
It’s fully inclusive, ensuring the range offers safe and effective exercises to users of all ages and abilities. The equipment comes with easy to read signage, transfer handles, wides seats with lowered access points and bold colour contrasts.
We offer a comprehensive SEND range to ensure your project is inclusive and accessible for all and ensure the range offers safe and effective exercises to users of all ages and abilities.
The resistance equipment is designed so it is gauged to the users body weight.
To maintain a basic level of health, children and young people aged 5-18 need to do at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
Benefits of physical activity include:
- Build strong muscles and bones
- Boost self esteem
- Lower the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood
- Reduces the risk of stress and depression
- Improves sleep quality and energy
Secondary School
Our outdoor fitness equipment is ideal for encouraging friendships and interest in fitness amongst teenagers.
We have several packages to suit every budget and every project covering all the Key Stages on the curriculum.
Our SEND range ensures your project your project is fully inclusive and accessible for all.
Professionally designed and developed to be permanently installed outdoors and accessible for all, from beginners to advanced athletes.
It’s easy and safe to use with the resistance being provided by the user’s own body weight.
To maintain a basic level of health, children and young people aged 5-18 need to do at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
Benefits of physical activity include:
- Build strong muscles and bones
- Boost self esteem
- Lower the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood
- Reduces the risk of stress and depression
- Improves sleep quality and energy
Does your project / scheme require funding?
We can assist you in finding several funding options to help with the cost and secure public funding to finance equipment and installation costs.
Outdoor Fitness – Parks & Recreational Areas
Our outdoor fitness equipment (Outdoor Gyms) are installed into community spaces where people meet and socialise, including parents / carers with children, groups of older children and teenagers and elderly groups etc..
Benefits of outdoor gyms include :
- Assisting communities to get more physically active
- They are free to use
- They are safe for all ages
- They are usually within walking distance of peoples homes
- Inclusive for all abilities
- Encourage social inclusion
- Encouraging people to be more active
We supply and install a range of the highest quality outdoor fitness equipment to suit all age groups.
Outdoor fitness equipment provides health and fitness benefits to all ages and our pieces are made to the highest safety and quality standards at competitive prices and are suitable for installation into parks, schools, public spaces, recreation areas and prisons. It has been designed to be used safely by adults and children of all abilities and conforms to safety standards EN1176 & EN16630.
Our outdoor fitness equipment is professionally designed and developed to be permanently installed outdoors, making it free to use and accessible to all, from beginners to advanced athletes. It’s fun and safe to use with the resistance being provided by the users own body weight.
The equipment can be installed onto a range of surface type including; grass, wetpour safety surfacing, polymeric, tarmac, rubber mulch and grass mats.
Most of the units are below the critical fall height so no impact attenuating ground surface is required, however the use of grass mats is recommended to prevent bald patches appearing around the equipment.
Our outdoor fitness equipment is inclusive, ensuring the range offers safe and effective exercises to its users of all ages and abilities.
The equipment comes with easy to read signage, transfer handles, wide seats with lowered access points and bold colour contrasts.
It’s suitable for older people and beginners and can combine gentle cardio and toning exercises to get muscles moving.
Experienced users will enjoy the more challenging pieces of equipment.
Our equipment is also suitable for people recovering from operations and illness, it can help the recovery of muscle strength and stamina. Wheelchair users and people with other disabilities can use inclusive pieces of equipment, ensuring everyone can enjoy exercise.