Workout Equipment Signs Installed at Wick Park

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Signs have been installed at the outdoor workout stations at Wick Park to provide instructions for using the exercise equipment.

“I really liked the idea of doing the fitness stations because it gives a feel of virtual, verbal and image based – all of which create a sense of comfortability and confidence to perform fitness routines in the park system,” said Dalton Campana, Healthy Community Partnership’s community recreation graduate assistant.

The signs include QR codes and picture demonstrations to teach people how to safely use the equipment. They were designed by Campana in collaboration with Youngstown State University’s Campus Recreation and Clemate Franklin, director of the city of Youngstown’s parks and recreation department.

The community recreation graduate assistant helps to provide free, outdoor exercise classes at neighborhood parks in Youngstown and Warren through the Mahoning Valley Outside 365 Initiative, led by the Healthy Community Partnership’s Parks and Green Spaces Action Team and YSU’s Campus Recreation.

The initiative was created to increase the use of neighborhood parks for recreation year-round to improve community health. 

For more information, contact Campana at [email protected] or Robin Perry, network coordinator at the Healthy Community Partnership, at [email protected].

Pictured at top: An instructional sign is seen near an outdoor workout station at Wick Park.

Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.