green gym (1 Viewer)

[broken arm]

someone should set this up in ireland.

The BTCV Green Gym ® is a scheme that inspires you to improve your health and the environment at the same time. It offers you the opportunity to 'work out' in the open air through local, practical environmental or gardening work.......

BTCV Green Gym groups meet in their local area at least once a week. A Green Gym session lasts for up to three hours.
During this time you will be doing environmental conservation or gardening activities with a trained leader. You could plant a new hedge, cut back an overgrown path, or help build a community garden.
These activities are taken at your own pace, but there is always something to get your heart and muscles working.

http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/greengym_how

 

[plug]

fresh air, exercise... free!? sounds like a pretty flawless idea.

 

[Pedronimus]

Will they have mirrors set up outside? I need to check out my glutes.

 

[Buzzo]

I'm gonna start one of these up so I can get a bunch of tubby hippies to do my gardening for free.

I want to make a joke about overgrown weeds at this juncture but I can't.
(My garden *is* over grown with weeds).


Seriously though, what a deadly idea.

 

[jane]

Will they have mirrors set up outside? I need to check out my glutes.

See, if you had glutes like mine, you could just grab 'em and drag 'em around to the front where you can take a good look and pick out the grit.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

how many carrots can you bench, bro?

 

[shitepipe]

is this not community service?

 

[broken arm]

is this not community service?

pretty much. it's really an excuse for people who wouldn't or couldn't afford to go to a gym to get some exercise. I think it is based around existing volunteering networks.

 

[magicbastarder]

are there any such organisations in ireland? i know of the CVI, but they seem terribly earnest. my hair is to short to turn into dreadlocks before i can join them.

 

[Pedronimus]

See, if you had glutes like mine, you could just grab 'em and drag 'em around to the front where you can take a good look and pick out the grit.

what are glutes?

 

[jane]

what are glutes?

Your butt muscles are your glutes. I have very weak ones, especially my gluteus medius. And as a journalist, I really need the bits of my butts that are in the media.