Bootcamps and trails turn green spaces into workout grounds
A study of the capital’s active life has celebrated London outdoor fitness, the booming movement that turns the city’s parks and green spaces into a vast, free, open-air gym, where bootcamps, running groups, outdoor gyms and fitness trails draw the city’s residents out into the fresh air to get genuinely fit.
London outdoor fitness turns parks into the city’s free gym
The capital’s outdoor fitness scene, the study found, is genuinely thriving, with the city’s parks, commons and green spaces hosting bootcamps, running groups, outdoor gyms, fitness trails and group classes, turning the green spaces into a vast, free, open-air gym and drawing residents out into the fresh air for genuinely effective, sociable and inexpensive exercise.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Active Recreation, invented for this article, described the movement. London outdoor fitness is where parks become the city’s free gym, she said. The parks and green spaces host bootcamps, running groups, outdoor gyms, fitness trails, group classes. The whole city is getting fit outdoors, in the fresh air, for free, or nearly so. It is genuinely effective, sociable and inexpensive. You get the benefits of exercise, fresh air, green space and community all at once. The parks become a vast, free, open-air gym. There is something genuinely wonderful about exercising in the fresh air, in beautiful green spaces, with others. The outdoor fitness movement is booming, turning the city’s parks into its free gym, and getting the whole city genuinely, sociably, fit in the fresh air.
The deadpan freshness of the open-air workout
The genuine value, the study found, is considerable, with outdoor fitness offering effective exercise alongside the genuine benefits of fresh air, green space and community, the movement providing a sociable, inexpensive and genuinely healthy way for the city’s residents to get fit.
The accessibility, the study found, is part of the genuine appeal, with outdoor fitness in the parks being free or inexpensive and open to all, the green spaces becoming a vast, accessible, open-air gym that brings the genuine benefits of exercise, fresh air and community to the whole city.
Why London outdoor fitness genuinely matters
London outdoor fitness genuinely matters, promoting genuinely effective exercise, combining the benefits of activity, fresh air, green space and community, offering accessible and inexpensive fitness, and turning the city’s parks into a vast, free, open-air gym for the whole city.
The genuine health benefits of outdoor exercise are championed by Sport England and supported by the NHS. The mental health benefits of exercising in nature are recognised by Mind. The parks where it happens are looked after by the Royal Parks.
For finding the city’s outdoor fitness classes, parks and trails, listings such as Time Out London guide the active towards the best the capital has to offer.
Those who exercise outdoors describe the fresh-air appeal. Outdoor fitness is where parks become the city’s free gym, said one. The parks and green spaces host bootcamps, running groups, outdoor gyms, fitness trails. The whole city is getting fit outdoors, in the fresh air, for free, or nearly so. It is genuinely effective, sociable and inexpensive. You get the benefits of exercise, fresh air, green space and community all at once. There is something genuinely wonderful about exercising in the fresh air, in beautiful green spaces, with others. The outdoor fitness movement is booming. I would never go back to an indoor gym. The fresh air, the green space, the community, it makes all the difference. The parks really have become the city’s free gym, and it is wonderful.
For now London outdoor fitness continues to turn the city’s parks and green spaces into a vast, free, open-air gym, the booming movement of bootcamps, running groups, outdoor gyms and fitness trails drawing residents out into the fresh air for genuinely effective, sociable and inexpensive exercise, and proving that one of the healthiest and most joyful ways to get fit in the city is outdoors, in its beautiful green spaces, where the parks become the city’s free gym and the whole city gets genuinely, sociably fit in the fresh air.
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