Please sign a petition for working out in public parks.

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Hi Guys,
It seems that many parks in the united states don't allow adults to workout using the park equipment. There is a move now to start training bodyweight, using the simple equipment such as pull ups and monkey bars available in city parks. Most parks say that an adult must have a child with him to enter a park. In many cases park workers and cops harrass individuals who calmly enjoy their fitness in the park environment.
There is a petition make to the US government, please sigh it and support the cause for gym free training anywhere.
http://www.petitiononline.com/bwc123/petition.html
Thank you for your support.
 
Okay. But, just to be fair, where's the petition that allows kids to play in gyms?
 
most of the parks around me have a course set up with pull up bars, a place to do push ups, etc. Why not look into getting such a course for your park...then you don't have to worry about kids getting in the way. I'm sure one of the concerns is kids getting hurt inadvertently.

I mean...if it's set up for kids...then it's for kids. Adults shouldn't be around it, unless you are with a child. That's mho anyway.
 
wierd they don't harass adults for working out with a kid at my park
 
Lemonrise5 said:
Hi Guys,
It seems that many parks in the united states don't allow adults to workout using the park equipment. There is a move now to start training bodyweight, using the simple equipment such as pull ups and monkey bars available in city parks. Most parks say that an adult must have a child with him to enter a park. In many cases park workers and cops harrass individuals who calmly enjoy their fitness in the park environment.
There is a petition make to the US government, please sigh it and support the cause for gym free training anywhere.
http://www.petitiononline.com/bwc123/petition.html
Thank you for your support.
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The home of the free?
 
Do you mean monkey bars, jungle gyms, and other playground type-stuff?

Those are meant to be toys for children, I think adults should be able to find other ways to exercise rather than utilizing kids' toys in parks.
 
h7jb7sg1e said:
wierd they don't harass adults for working out with a kid at my park
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maybe you should find a kid to workout with, avoid the hassle of homeland security coming to visit you after
 
personally I wouldn't be happy if i took my child to the park and found it over-run with would be MMA fighters doing pullups and jumping rope.

Sorry, but I would be very pissed.

The movement shouldnt be to allow adults on child equipment, but to build parks just for adults.
 
Anyone ever got on the site where you can see where sexual predators live in your town? Find that site, then you'll understand why they have that rule. You'll be shocked at how many are in your town/city.
 
This petition is not to take away playgrounds from the kids.
It is not to allow child molesters a free entarance to kids hang outs.

It's just to give people who don't have money or don't want to go to a franchised gym a place to workout.

If people think that adults pose a threat to kids, that's fine. But how much does it cost to build a pull up bar or a dip bar in a small area, and call it a fitness area. If every adults would do only 10 pull up and 10 dips while working pass them on the way to work. How much healthier we would be. Forget about if people would set aside 30 minutes to workout, what would that do to our society.

but this is not even about changing society. There are so many people who already want to workout. They would if simply giving a chance.
 
Lemonrise5 said:
This petition is not to take away playgrounds from the kids.
It is not to allow child molesters a free entarance to kids hang outs.

It's just to give people who don't have money or don't want to go to a franchised gym a place to workout.

If people think that adults pose a threat to kids, that's fine. But how much does it cost to build a pull up bar or a dip bar in a small area, and call it a fitness area. If every adults would do only 10 pull up and 10 dips while working pass them on the way to work. How much healthier we would be. Forget about if people would set aside 30 minutes to workout, what would that do to our society.

but this is not even about changing society. There are so many people who already want to workout. They would if simply giving a chance.
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Ok...so have you contacted anyone about building a pull up bar for adults? Several parks have those "stations" so contact that park and see what the cost was. Then raise money, write a grant proposal in order to fund it. Or hold some fund raising events. Maybe you can get some friends together and build one...maybe the park will approve it.

have you tried that instead of taking over the kids stuff? What have you done to try and improve your situation instead of making a petition? It's the kids play area...
 
Oblivian said:
Anyone ever got on the site where you can see where sexual predators live in your town? Find that site, then you'll understand why they have that rule. You'll be shocked at how many are in your town/city.
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my thoughts exactly
 
It's ok. Just spend a $100 of our tax money and build a pull up bar in non-kid section. We don't want the kids to be hurt. We just want a small piece of the taxes. If they drop thousands of bombs and each costs millions. Is it too bad to ask for a few dollars to be spent on fitness?
 
Lopyswine said:
personally I wouldn't be happy if i took my child to the park and found it over-run with would be MMA fighters doing pullups and jumping rope.

Sorry, but I would be very pissed.
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I'm calling MAJOR bullshit here....


You're telling me if one day you happen to be walking down to your local Bloomington Park and saw CroCop and Fedor on the SeeSaw, Couture on the Climber, BJ Penn in the Crawl Tube and St. Pierre on the monkey bars that you would be upset?
 
City officials problably didn't want these 2 brothers any where near public parks in there cities.


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LOL if I saw someone do that in a park who's last name wasn't Emelianenko.
 
bubbleboyjones said:
I'm calling MAJOR bullshit here....


You're telling me if one day you happen to be walking down to your local Bloomington Park and saw CroCop and Fedor on the SeeSaw, Couture on the Climber, BJ Penn in the Crawl Tube and St. Pierre on the monkey bars that you would be upset?
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wow. you're amazing.
 
19 posts so far and no one has put up a pick of chris hansen yet!
 
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