New York tests out its first Playground For Adults.
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Mom, Dad, This Playground’s for You
IT was a classic father-son moment, reversed: The 2-year-old sat and watched patiently as his parent hung upside down from the monkey bars. A few feet away, a white-haired man skipped across an S-shaped metal beam. Another man squeezed his six-foot frame onto a metal rack for situps, and two others hoisted themselves up chin-up bars.
Never mind the punishing diets, the gym dates and the doctors’ warnings, the quest to live a healthier, more active lifestyle has come to this: playgrounds for adults.
New York City is testing its first such playground in Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx, and plans to bring as many as two dozen more to neighborhoods across the five boroughs in the next 18 months, park officials said.
The goal is to lure people off their couches and into the outdoors with specially designed playground equipment — in grown-up shades like forest green and beige — that recall the joy of childhood play while tightening up flabby abs, thighs and triceps.
Though there are no swings or slides — these are essentially outdoor gyms — such playgrounds not only have the look of traditional children’s play spaces, but they are also built in some cases by the same manufacturers.
The adult playground concept is borrowed from China and parts of Europe, where outdoor fitness areas for adults have become as routine as high-fiber diets or vitamin D supplements in preventive care, particularly for older people.
Now a growing number of city and park officials, health experts and community leaders throughout the country are praising the health and social benefits of adult playgrounds. They say that the playgrounds will succeed where treadmills have failed in combating rising rates of obesity and related illnesses by enticing the grown-ups out for play dates.
“Let’s face it, most of us dread going to the gym,” said Dr. David Ludwig, a Harvard Medical School professor who directs the Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. “The point is to make physical activity fun, easy and accessible, so it’s the normal thing to do.”
Adult playgrounds have spread across the nation, including to Miami-Dade County in Florida, where four fitness zones with advanced strength-training equipment opened this year in neighborhoods with high rates of cardiovascular diseases. San Antonio has added outdoor fitness stations to 30 parks since 2010. Los Angeles has 30, with 15 more on the way, after park officials found, to their surprise, there were “lines of people waiting to use the equipment.”
Well people always beggin for more community centers.
This some positive ? though.
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positive look, hopefully the idea spreads like a wildfire.....
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It's cool. It's like a free gym. But in this heat a mother ? isn't trying to work out, outside
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? is across the river from me.
too hot to do that in the sun thou -
Looks like a prison yard
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This is great.
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somebody gonna get shanked on the yard
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A great way to charge up melanin.
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blackjack2012 wrote: »Looks like a prison yard
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how long y'all think it'll be before someone is caught having sex out there.
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Looks like a prison yard.
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Gonna be more barbecues and drinking than exercising
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no huge adult slide?? FAIL
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? looks like a regular monkeybar section of a kids playground
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do folks atleast get I.D to use this Playground if not this ? wack
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We used to have swings you can stand on next to a 20 foot tall gate so you can get height and jump off on to the fence. We called it the spider-man. Classic ps11 maneuvers.
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so they gave them a prison yard?
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a slide would be dope af
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dalyricalbandit wrote: »do folks atleast get I.D to use this Playground if not this ? wack
why do you need I.D to play on a playground?
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Lord Ether wrote: »
classic break beat -
? is creepy as hell.
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dalyricalbandit wrote: »do folks atleast get I.D to use this Playground if not this ? wack
why do you need I.D to play on a playground?
im saying since it an adult playground no minors -
dalyricalbandit wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »do folks atleast get I.D to use this Playground if not this ? wack
why do you need I.D to play on a playground?
im saying since it an adult playground no minors
Then they will charge you and label it an outdoors gym. -
dalyricalbandit wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »do folks atleast get I.D to use this Playground if not this ? wack
why do you need I.D to play on a playground?
im saying since it an adult playground no minors
how come they ain't do that for playground for kids
i think that's stupid... like sage said, they might as well call it an "outdoor gym"
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If this what it's like then ? that!!!
? ain't right!