General News
6 October, 2022
New exercise gear to help Carisbrook residents get active
New outdoor exercise equipment has been installed and is ready for use in Carisbrook, helping residents to be more active more often. Featuring two exercise stations, the equipment includes a dexterity builder, pull downs, aerobic cycle and leg...
New outdoor exercise equipment has been installed and is ready for use in Carisbrook, helping residents to be more active more often.
Featuring two exercise stations, the equipment includes a dexterity builder, pull downs, aerobic cycle and leg press and comes through support from the Victorian Government’s Healthy Loddon Campaspe initiative.
A water fountain has also been installed by Central Highlands Water nearby, with the equipment following the already available outdoor exercise equipment in Maryborough, Talbot and Dunolly.
Carisbrook resident Marilyn Walker had been travelling to Talbot to utilise the equipment there and said having the same equipment available closer to home was great.
“There were a few of us going to Talbot earlier in the year to access the equipment there as part of classes that were being run,” she said.
“The equipment is where you live, you can get fit walking to and from it and the best part is you can come at any time and use it.
“I’m supposed to have an artificial elbow put in so this is going to be fantastic because it will help strengthen that arm and keep me fit.”
Tullaroop Ward councillor Anna De Villiers said the new equipment will help provide health and wellbeing benefits for the local community.
“The outdoor fitness equipment will provide opportunities for free physical activity for children, young people, families and senior members of the Carisbrook community and will also be a drawcard for residents from surrounding communities,” she said.
“The project aligns with our Active Central Goldfields Recreation and Open Space Strategy 2020-2029 as well as our Health and Wellbeing Plan which aims to promote opportunities for our community to be active, more often.
“Thank you to the Victorian Government’s Healthy Loddon Campaspe initiative who have also funded equipment in Dunolly and Talbot which have both proven popular.
“More recently, outdoor exercise equipment was installed at the Adventure Playground in Maryborough — this project was also funded by the Victorian Government through the Regional Jobs and Infrastructure Fund.”
