With the new facility, the city of Stuttgart is setting another example for the promotion of exercise in public spaces. Daniela Klein, Head of the Office for Sport and Exercise, and Arne Lehr, Head of the North District in the Urban Green Department at the Garden, Cemetery and Forestry Office, inaugurated the training equipment on December 3.
The low-threshold offer is intended to counteract a lack of exercise and at the same time provide a place where people can meet, exercise together and have fun. Thanks to its location next to the children's and youth center, young people in Feuerbach have a modern, safe and appealing space to try things out, improve their physical fitness and network with one another. Immediately after the opening, trainer Alex Boland from SV Fellbach's Trendsport Academy showed the young people various exercises on the new calisthenics facility.
Training for all major muscle groups
Equipped with various training stations such as pull-up bars, dip bars, wall bars, training benches and parallel bars, the facility enables comprehensive training for all major muscle groups. Training with your own body weight stabilizes the entire musculoskeletal system, working various muscles such as shoulders and arms, abdomen and back or thighs and calves.
The construction project was planned by the landscape architecture firm Mundsinger + Hans Freie Landschaftsarchitekten from Ostfildern in cooperation with the Garden, Cemetery and Forestry Office and the Office for Sport and Exercise of the state capital Stuttgart. Die Firma Garten und Landschaftsbau Palmer GmbH & Co KG from Stuttgart carried out the landscaping work.
20 outdoor fitness facilities in the city
Stuttgart now has over twenty different outdoor fitness facilities spread throughout the city. They are financed from the budget of the master plan for urban exercise spaces. The master plan provides forward-looking ideas on how public spaces in Stuttgart can be made more exercise-friendly. In November 2021, the city council decided to always include the master plan in future urban development projects and redesigns in public spaces.
