Welcome to Newnham's Outdoor Gym
which is free and available for anyone to use – whether you are a resident or visitor. You can find it located in Wineycock, just off Seed Road (ME9 0NB | ///donor.hometown.clinking)
Let’s take a look at the equipment we have, how you can use it and the benefits to your health and wellbeing.
Cross Trainer
The Cross Trainer is designed to give a cardiovascular workout, as well as improving muscle tone in the legs and arms
Features
- Cardiovascular piece, designed for full body workout
- Fully enclosed mechanisms avoiding traps
- Stainless steel handles and aluminium
- Thick disks create resistance
- Brightly coloured to meet Inclusive Fitness Initiative guidelines
Benefits
- Cardiovascular health and fitness benefits
- Builds strength and tone in legs and arms
- Low impact for inactive users, older people and people with health conditions
- Inclusive for all abilities
Chest Press/Seated Rower
The Chest Press/ Seated Rower is an upper body double station that gives users a fantastic workout. It strengthens and tones major muscle groups in the chest, arms, shoulders and back.
Features
- Upper body strength and toning equipment
- Progression piece
- Double handles on each piece to target different muscles
- Double unit with challenging full range of movement
- Accessible seat
- Intuitive design
Benefits
- Builds muscle and offers progression
- Feels like an indoor gym piece
- Functional fitness
- Inclusive for all fitness levels
- Popular with older people too
Spinning Bike
The Spinning Bike is a classic machine for any gym. This cardiovascular piece of outdoor gym equipment works the lower body, whilst improving heart and lung function.
Features
- Cardiovascular workout
- Built in resistance
- Upgradable to Energy Range, to generate electricity for charging devices
- Can be linked to an Energy Display Unit (EDU) to store energy for powering lights
- Can be upgraded to smart to measure gym hits and energy-generated
- Does not free wheel for user safety
Benefits
- Built for popularity of cycling
- Intuitive and easy to use
- Great for targeting people new to exercise and the moderately active
- Intuitive design
- Boosts confidence and welcomes people into the space
Leg Press / Bench
This double unit is fantastic for a wide range of toning exercises for all fitness levels – beginners to exercise, inactive people, older people, the already active who want to progress further and fitness elites. There are so many muscles you can work here that you may never get off – though we do recommend rest in between your sets!
The Leg Press works leg and gluteal muscles under a controlled plane, with feet fixed onto the designated footplate. The large footplate allows for a variety of foot positions to accommodate many exercise variations and users. Change your foot position to work the calf muscles too.
There are a number of exercise variations on the Bench. Sit ups are just the start! The bars around the edge of the Bench enable the user to perform incline and declined press ups, as well as tricep dips. The Bench also caters for a wide variety of sit up and abdominal crunch exercises, as well as seated leg raise exercises.
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Features
- Full body tone and strengthening exercises
- Multiple exercises: leg press exercises, triceps dips, leg raises, press ups, incline and decline push ups, stomach crunches
- Transfer handles for safer use
- Intuitive
Benefits
- Great for core strength
- Builds strength and tone in arms, legs and glutes
- Welcomes beginners with highly intuitive exercises
- Supports progression with exercises to increase challenge and attract the super fit
- Inclusive for families, older people, beginners and active people
Hand Bike
The Hand Bike can be used by both able bodied users and wheelchair users, as well as people with lower body mobility issues or injuries. It is an excellent cardiovascular piece of equipment, improving heart and vascular health, toning up arms and improving muscle condition, stamina and endurance.
Features
- Star inclusivity piece
- Upper body cardio workout
- Built in resistance
- Can be upgraded to be smart, measuring gym hits and energy generated
Benefits
- Good for targeting people new to exercise
- Wheelchair accessible
- Great cardiovascular benefits for wheelchair users, able bodied users and people with lower body mobility issues
- Affordable
- Intuitive
Recumbent Bike
The Recumbent Bike is designed to give users of all abilities a great cardiovascular workout, boosting heart and lung function whilst improving leg strength and muscle tone. It’s a completely intuitive piece, very welcoming for beginners and inactive groups. It is ideal as a rehabilitation tool, keeping the back in a fixed position whilst working the lower body with transfer handles to get on and off easily.
Features
- Cardiovascular workout
- Built in resistance
- Transfer handles, wider seats and back support
- Easily accessible
- All workings enclosed
- Aluminium features
- Stainless steel handles
Benefits
- Improves cardiovascular health over time
- Excellent piece for inactive groups, beginners and older people
- Good rehab tool
- Intuitive and welcoming