Fitness-yourself-path
A fitness trail is a circular course with simple and robust gymnastics equipment about every 200 meters. The idea comes from Switzerland . Similar routes are known there under the name Vitaparcours . The term forest mile is common in Austria .
history
The first fitness trail in Germany was installed in Münster in 1962 (sweat droplet track). The fitness trails were created in the 1970s as part of the fitness movement . The German Sports Association (DSB - today DOSB) took up an idea from other countries and started the campaign "Exercise yourself through sport" on March 16, 1970. Previously, doctors had warned against so-called lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes, circulatory disorders or heart problems.
construction
On the approximately three to four kilometers long route there are around 15 to 20 exercise stations, for example bars for pull-ups or tree stumps for buck jumps - often together with a board with exercise instructions.
Facility
In addition to the actual route, fitness trails also have other, simple fitness equipment. For example triangle of wood, or wood pillars in the ground, wooden poles, etc. The aim is to bring a few foreign materials into the woods, but still and not too strenuous training methods to provide many.
Examples of exercises are:
- Slalom run
- Leapfrog
- Up and over swing
- Pull-up
- Balance
- Hip circles
- Stretching exercises
- Long jump
administration
Most of the time, fitness trails and the Vitaparcours are maintained and maintained by the relevant city or municipality, by sports clubs or tourist associations.
After a peak in the late 1970s, the existing fitness trails have now been abandoned in many communities. A 4Fcircle course was opened in Munich in October 2001.
Many municipalities are also bringing their routes into shape, so that several newspapers are already seeing a comeback of the fitness trail.
Web links
- Locations in Germany , on trimm-dich-pfad.com
- Jörn Wenge: Sweat has been flowing here since 1962. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. July 27, 2014, accessed October 10, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk: The sweat droplet train in Münster
- ↑ Thomas Hummel: 50 years "Trimm-Dich -pfad": The mass movement. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Eberhard Maier: Fitness - The fitness path of the 21st century. Frankfurter Allgemeine, April 15, 2002.
- ↑ Matthias Kolb: Happy finding forms outdoors. , BZ, April 10, 2004.
- ↑ Anna Wolff and Jana Tessaring: Trimmy is back! - The return of the keep-fit trails. In: New Ruhr newspaper. Funke-Verlag, May 10, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Jörg Hahn: Trimm-dich 2.0 Train with your own body weight outdoors. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. dpa, May 18, 2018, accessed on November 8, 2018 .