Mom, Dad, This Playground’s for You
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IT was a classic father-son moment, reversed: The 2-year-old sat and watched patiently as his parent hung upside down from the monkey bars. A few feet away, a white-haired man skipped across an S-shaped metal beam. Another man squeezed his six-foot frame onto a metal rack for situps, and two others hoisted themselves up chin-up bars.
Never mind the punishing diets, the gym dates and the doctors warnings, the quest to live a healthier, more active lifestyle has come to this: playgrounds for adults.
New York City is testing its first such playground in Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx, and plans to bring as many as two dozen more to neighborhoods across the five boroughs in the next 18 months, park officials said.
The goal is to lure people off their couches and into the outdoors with specially designed playground equipment in grown-up shades like forest green and beige that recall the joy of childhood play while tightening up flabby abs, thighs and triceps.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/nyregion/new-york-introduces-its-first-adult-playground.html?pagewanted=all
Somewhere someone is writing: "MICHELLE OBAMA FORCING FAT ADULTS TO PLAY KID GAMES!"
rug
(82,333 posts)I hate waiting for some snot nosed kid to get off the swings.
Stargazer09
(2,132 posts)That looks like fun!
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)It's located along our walking/biking trail. It seems more like outdoor exercise equipment than a playground, but it looks a lot like the stuff pictured in the article.
It's totally fun!