IN THE ZONES
Question: Where can you go to exercise anytime you want, even if you can’t afford the monthly cost of a gym member- ship? Answer: to a Trust for Public Land Fitness Zone®
outdoor gym. In 2007, TPL worked with the Los Angeles County
parks department to place five Fitness Zones in local parks. Since then the idea has taken off and is spreading nationwide. L.A. now has 41 Fitness Zones with more in the works. New zones also have opened or are planned for St. Petersburg, Lake Worth, and Miami–Dade County, Florida; Newark, New Jersey; and New York City. A typical Fitness Zone features an assortment of
outdoor gym gear—including rowing machines, stationary walking and elliptical stepping machines, and chest and leg presses—installed in an existing park. The gear is tough enough to resist bad weather and vandalism and is suitable for use by people aged 14 and older at all levels of fitness. St. Petersburg’s Fitness Zone, in Azalea Park, will be
the first to include equipment approved for use by disabled persons under the federal Americans With Disabilities act. And Miami–Dade’s zone, which opened in July, is the first of many planned for the nation’s third largest park system, visited by ten million people annually.
Installed in co- free,
operation with local parks districts and with support from MetLife Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, the Health Foundation of South Florida, Wells Fargo, and others, Fitness Zones are part of TPL’s strategy to promote health and fitness in the face of an epidemic of obe- sity and costly related diseases. A 2011 RAND Corporation study of TPL Fitness Zones in Los Angeles concluded that they are a cost-effective way to get people to exercise more, particu- larly when the equipment is located in densely settled neighborhoods and is easy to get to. For more information about Trust for Public Land Fitness Zones, go to
tpl.org/fitnesszones.
Celebrate our first Fitness Zone in Miami-Dade!
WATCH HOW OUR FITNESS ZONES TRANSFORM LIVES
WILLIAM LORENZEN/ THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
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