Reggio Calabria, Mediterranea inaugurates the Fitness Gym

At the University Citadel, the Calisthenics and Free Body Area and the Fitness and Strengthening Gym were inaugurated.Mediterranean University Of Reggio Calabria. An outdoor health path has been created in front of the gym, ideal for training and achieving your fitness and wellbeing goals.

The Calisthenics Area of ​​the wellness program has been equipped for the execution of 6 basic exercises: the abdominal station for the muscle groups of the abdominal band, the push-up and lunge push-up station, the monkey bar station, the parallel bars station, the shoulder rest station, the pull-up station.

The equipment has been arranged in such a way as to allow circuit training, which allows practitioners to quickly move from one station to another, in order to maintain a constant rhythm and keep the intensity of the training high alternating with moments rest.

The gym has also been upgraded, which occupies an area of ​​approximately 700 m2 and is divided into two levels. It is equipped with treadmills, cardio fitness machines and muscle strengthening machines and equipment.

The cardio area was expanded with the purchase of two new professional treadmills equipped with training programming and displays, heart rate monitor and body functions. With the addition of the two new treadmills, the cardio area is equipped with a battery of 7 treadmills, which complement the exercise bikes and elliptical trainers already present.

After the revision of the muscle strengthening machines, the gym is being equipped with an area for strengthening and power lifting, to satisfy the ever-increasing demand from students for strengthening exercises. A complete assortment of barbells and weights, with Olympic barbells, of sizes and weights differentiated by category, (M&W), hex bars and seal row bars, with push racks and benches for specific exercises, such as seal row and hip thrust.

The weightlifting and power lifting station has a complete set of barbells and benches, for free exercises on the bench, with different sizes and weights for the different categories of users. Furthermore, each barbell has a complete set of clamp collar, bumper disks, double side rack and rack disk holder stand. Furthermore, the exercise area has been covered with anti-trauma flooring.

Satisfaction was expressed by the Delegate for Sport and Wellbeing of the Mediterranean prof. Giuseppe Barbaro which declares “I thank the Rector for the commitment and attention they have paid to strengthening the University’s sporting activities and for the further contribution which has allowed us to carry out extraordinary maintenance of the five-a-side football field, to integrate the equipment supply and gym tools and to create the Calisthenics and Free Body Area right in front of the Fitness and Strengthening Gym of the “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria”.

The Rector concludes Giuseppe Zimbalatti: “Sport and Wellbeing represent one of the main objectives that the University of Reggio has set itself in the training path of students and the University community, which we will complete with the activation for the 2024_25 academic year of the new three-year degree course in Physical Education and Right to Sport which will be an opportunity for all the young people of our city to be able to follow a training course in sports and health matters in the city, with the involvement, together with the University Sports Centre, of all the sports organizations in the area, with the ‘I hope that in the near future there will be many initiatives, sporting activities and health programs to complete’.