The elliptical cross trainer provides an excellent full-body cardiovascular work-out. It helps to improve co-ordination and balance while providing low impact exercise for legs and arms. Excellent work-out for those recovering from injury.
Air Skier
By swinging both legs together from side to side the Air Skier strengthens and develops the lower abdomen hips and thighs, improves balance and co-ordination through "core" activation. Excellent warm-up and work-out for skiers, but also can provide gentle exercise for fitness beginners.
Leg Stretch
This leg stretch station has three different heights for different degrees of stretch and has handrails to help increase the stretch and maintain balance. Improves flexibility and balance.
Tai Chi Spinners
These wheels are designed to promote flexibility and co-ordination in wrists arms and shoulders as well as improving circulation and providing an excellent warm-up. Suitable for all ages as well as wheel-chair bound users and an excellent physiotherapy routine.
Parallel Bars
This classic piece or gym equipment can be used to a variety of exercises, especially push-ups and dips as well as hand walking along its length to build upper body strength. The truly athletic may want to try more strenuous or adventurous exercises. May need to be installed with impact absorbing soft surfacing.
Horizontal Ladder
Also known as Monkey bars, this is a strenuous exercise for arms and shoulders "walking" hand over hand the length of the ladder. Can also be used for chin-ups. Suitable for teenagers and adults. May require shock absorbing soft surfacing surround.
Free Standing Wall Bars
Also a classic piece of gym equipment adapted for the outdoors, provides a number of exercises including climbing, knee raises, leg raises and various arm exercises using ones body weight as resistance and ones feet as pivot. Can also be used for ballet style bar exercisesMay need to be installed with shock absorbing soft surfacing surround.
Balance Beams
These simple, low height, floor mounted bars are remarkably effective for a range of activities for all ages. Use for balancing exercises or for "bunny-hops" over them, either straight back and forth or as a slalom exercises along their length.
Gymnastic Rings
A classic piece of gym equipment for the truly athletic. Can be used for a full range of upper body exercises creating power and strength in shoulders, arms and torso. May need to be installed with shock absorbent surfacing.
Hexagonal Climbing Station
Offers a wide variety of exercises and challenges including many upper body work-outs. Difficulty level from medium to strenuous. Suitable for teenagers and adults. Presents the opportunity for exercise as play. May require safety surfacing surround.
Ten Way Fitness Station
A challenging composite apparatus offering a wide variety of exercises particularly for arms and upper body. Presents exercise as play, its imposing size and structure invites participants to its challenges. Suitable for teenagers and athletic adults. May require safety surfacing surround.
Sign Board
Use the sign board as a general introduction and instructional notice at the entrance to the fitness area or as a more comprehensive and detailed instruction beside each fitness station. Each piece of equipment comes with its own instructions attached, but the sign board offers the chance for more detail and variety. It also creates the opportunity for sponsorship branding.
Richmond-Range Stations with Show Boards
The Richmond range can be configured either with the same apparatus on each side, as shown or with a one piece of equipment on one side and another piece on the other. They are impressive in their stature and offer the possibility of providing much more comprehensive instructions on doing the exercises as well being a useful way to inform users of other health related issues.
Alternatively the space could be reserved for sponsors, so that the equipment is self financing or even a net income generator. Fresh Air Fitness will be happy to assist in finding sponsors,
Nearly all of the equipment shown in the standard range can be incorporate into the Richmond range only a few examples are shown here.
Promenade-Range Stations with Show Boards
As the Richmond range above but with three positions at each station. Also incorporates some exercisers unique to this range as shown.
