Adult Gyms, have you ever seen anyone using them?

We have on one the nearest large green space. I occasionally see people on the overhead 'monkey bars' but that's it. I may be there the wrong time of day. Its on the edge of playing fields with a stream on the side.

There's one near us that has all sorts of exercise equipment and some pieces are used more than others from what I've seen. The one that makes you stride and the one thatnyou stand on and swing from side to side whilst dislocating your hip seem to ve the most popular.

There is one near us.

It is on the edge of a huge green park- like open space, with most of the equipment located 3 feet from a busy footpath which in turn is right beside one of the busiest roads in the area and in between two sets of traffic lights so there is almost always crawling traffic not only belching fumes but with drivers and passengers including those on nose to tail double decker buses at peak times gawping at anyone brave enough to use the equipment.

Oh yes, and it all faces the road, you can't turn your back on the road whilst using it.

ps there is no fence or hedge between the equipment and the path either, one just merges into the other, where the green stops and the black starts, so anyone walking by on the path is so close to the users on the equipment that they can feel their hot breath.

One just being built near me and I m looking forward to having a go

They seem quite active early in the morning and later in the evening (I drive past one sometimes)

There is a well used gym in a park near me.

They built one in the next village but I don’t know where it is. I stopped going to the gym because of covid and I really want to use an outside one. There is one at the park next to my gym but I obviously didn’t need to use that one. What I will say, going by my gym and the park next to it is that, if you give people the chance to improve their health they will use it. On the subject of gyms, the thing I miss the most is the sauna and I can’t help but think that a sauna is the worst possible place to go if you’re worried about catching covid. So today it dawned on me that my car was far hotter than the sauna ever was so I went and sat in it for 20 minutes then plunged myself into a cold bath. I felt great. Going to do the same tomorrow!

I have never heard them called 'adult gyms' but yes, we have outdoor exercise equipment at several parks near us. They are very popular.

I have never seen one.

We have several in local parks they are all well used at all times of the day.

The one in the park by me is quite popular, especially for folk who enjoy a bit of attention when they exercise ...
DGS (9) decided he'd promote himself to the adult equipment, fell off and broke his arm ..(sigh)

I've seen people using them all the time

A couple of the children's playgrounds near us have a few of these pieces of equipment next to them.
I've had a go on most of them when I've been there with the dgc, as have the dgc's parents.
They are not very good, but provide a short spell of both exercise and entertainment.

We live two minutes across the road from a country park created from an old railway line. It stretches for miles all along the main pathway there is exercise equipment. Some right on the actual pathway some just off it I have to say it is used a lot. There are activities in the woods for cyclists and runners it really is an area appreciated. Which is a good thing because it must have been very costly for the council to set up.

I find this quite itneresting because I drive past our village equipment at all times of the day and night, but have yet to see it in use. Yesterday I walked past three mid morning, all unused. In the same town i drive past another at all sorts of times and have yet to see it used.

It must be the people of southern Oxfordshire do not like them.

My partner and I have just been using one. We went for a walk and used the outside adult gym for 20 minutes or so.

Yes, ours are well used.
A couple are sited beside children's play areas so grown-ups can be near to children (6 - 10 year olds) so supervising from a distance while exercising themselves. Seems to work here.