When spring brings the first mild days and the sun starts to warm up the weather, outdoors invites to all kinds of activities and sports. More daylight gives also a new motivation to start up doing exercise, to welcome the upcoming summer with good health and feeling about yourself. Jogging and walking, or Nordic walking are good ways to start after long and dark winter, which has maybe stiffen the body and broken the regular cycle of doing sports. It is probably good to start slowly, especially if there has been a bit of a gap in doing sports or exercise in the winter.
Outdoor gyms (in Finnish: ulkoliikuntapaikka) offers fantastic surroundings for doing light exercise or even a heavier gymnastics. The areas can be used as soon as the snow has melted away. These are placed usually in the immediate proximity of parks and other recreational areas, which makes it easy to combine for example jogging and a gymnastic exercise. A proper and a well-equipped outdoor gym is as the indoor equivalent, the benefit being the fresh air all around and most likely also more visually pleasant surroundings.
Danish Norwell has designed a series of fitness equipment meant for outdoor gym and exercise. Norwell Form Funtion equipment are quite plain in their design, reflecting the Nordic taste for simplicity and minimalism. The series includes altogether 12 different kind of equipment, varying from those meant for improving the muscle fitness and agility to those that are designed for aerobic fitness an improving the balance and coordination. Norwell equipments are available in Finland through Lappset group which represents the products in Finland.
