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Light In Fitness or Proludic: How to Choose for Your Project

Expert guides on professional fitness equipment
A specialist play manufacturer and a multi-brand distributor answer the same tender without doing the same job. Business models, scope, standards and the project types each one suits, stated frankly by one of the two.
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What Subfloor Can You Lay Rubber Gym Tiles On?

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Concrete, ceramic tiles, timber floors, underfloor heating, asphalt or bare ground: what each subfloor requires before rubber gym tiles are laid over it.
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Playground Inspections: What the Operator Must Do

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Routine, operational and annual inspections under EN 1176-7, the documents to require at handover and where liability sits once a playground is open.
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Playground Roundabouts: The Fall Height Threshold That Changes Everything

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Rotating play equipment covers the widest free fall height range in the catalogue, from 0.2 to 2.3 m. The consequence is rarely anticipated at design stage: the lowest models stay under the 0.6 m threshold above which EN 1177 impact-attenuating surfacing becomes mandatory, and that single fact can remove the heaviest line from a playground budget.
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Bespoke Playgrounds: Where to Start a Custom Project

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A bespoke project starts from three site constraints rather than a drawing: the footprint available, the foundation depth that can be dug, and the acceptable free fall height given the planned surfacing. Modular construction allows the park to open in phases.
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Play tower, elevated playhouse or tubular structure: how to choose

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Free-fall height, foundation depth and upkeep compared across the three tall playground families, so the groundworks do not decide the budget for you.
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Spring Riders: The Simplest Way to Complete an Existing Playground

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Spring riders have the lowest foundation and surfacing requirement of any playground family, which makes them the one item that can be added to a playground already in service.
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Playgrounds: Surfacing and Foundations Required by Each Family

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Free fall height and foundation depth decide a playground budget, not the price of the structures. What each of the nine families requires, family by family.
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Storage chests: which capacity for your gym?

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Metal storage chests from 30 to 230 litres: how to pick the capacity by zone, when the sliding tray earns its cost, and which accessories actually matter.
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Rope Climbing Pyramids: How to Choose the Right One

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Free fall height, not mast height, drives the surfacing cost of a rope climbing pyramid. Eight models compared, with foundations, footprint and standards.
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Playground Swings: Which Model to Choose

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Age ranges, free fall heights, foundations and impact-absorbing surfacing: how to choose a playground swing and what really drives the budget of the project.
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Monkey Dome: What It Adds Over Straight Monkey Bars

Kids' Monkey Dome Training Structure - Three Inclined Access Ladders
The monkey dome replaces the straight monkey bar ladder with a cupola: several crossing lines instead of one, and three access ladders that build the progression into the equipment itself.
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Kids Outdoor Cardio: Air Walkers, Orbitrek Ellipticals and Steppers

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Ten outdoor cardio references for children, from 1,500.00 EUR to 3,120.00 EUR excluding VAT: air walkers, Orbitrek elliptical trainers and steppers, with the applicable standards and siting guidance.
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Arm Wheels, Helm and Back Massager: Upper-Body Stations for Outdoor Trails

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Three unloaded upper-body stations for an outdoor fitness trail: arm wheels and helm for shoulder mobility, back massager for recovery. Ranges, wheelchair-accessible versions, dimensions and prices excluding VAT.
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Outdoor Twister: What It Is For and Which Version to Choose

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The twister is the trunk mobility station of a fitness trail. What it trains, every version and price, combined sets and how to site it correctly.
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15 mm Rubber Gym Tiles: Uses, Colours and Limits

Grey Rubber Gym Tile 15 mm — 100 × 100 cm
Six 15 mm rubber tile references, colour zoning without floor marking, installation and maintenance, and the point at which a floor needs 20 or 40 mm instead.
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10 mm Rubber Gym Tiles: Uses, Limits and When to Step Up to 15 mm

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Where a 10 mm rubber tile is the right specification, where it is not, and the exact thresholds at which a professional floor needs 15, 20 or 40 mm.
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Body Dome (Bosu): 10 Balance and Rehabilitation Exercises

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Ten exercises on the Bodytone Body Dome balance trainer, dome side and platform side, with progressions by audience: rehabilitation, older adults, group classes and physical conditioning.
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Gym Membership or Training at Home: The Calculation That Protects Your Budget

Gym Membership or Training at Home: The Calculation That Protects Your Budget
The real arithmetic behind a gym membership: hidden costs, travel time, cost per actual session, what a home setup covers, and why hybrid usually wins.
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Cross-training rigs: compare import and manufacturer quotes

Rogue, KingsBox, Xenios and Eleiko all build good equipment, but the catalogue price is not the final cost of a rig. Freight, unloading, installation, compliance documentation and spare parts all arrive after the invoice. Here is the total cost compared, with our own published prices.
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Japanese walking (interval walking training): protocol, evidence and how to run it in a facility

The 3-minutes-fast, 3-minutes-slow protocol explained, a four-week introduction, the published gains in aerobic capacity and leg strength, and the treadmill specification a facility needs to deliver it.
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Gym equipment names in English and French: the international buyer glossary

English to French equivalents for strength, free-weight and cardio equipment, the UK and US naming differences, the terms to keep out of a tender, and how to write an unambiguous equipment schedule.
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Punch bags and free-standing bags: how to choose and how to hang them

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Bag weight by user profile, free-standing against hanging formats, four suspension methods with costs, outdoor specification, spacing and ceiling height, and three budget scenarios.
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Lifting straps: when to use them, which type and how to wrap them

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The load threshold at which straps stop being a crutch, cotton against nylon and leather, lasso versus figure 8 versus hooks, correct wrapping technique and what a facility should stock.
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