Proludic’s Virtual Coaches will change the way you look at outdoor play equipment forever

Steve Backley and Roger Black, through Proludic’s Virtual Coaches videos, give you an Olympian’s-eye view of outdoor play areas.

Each video shows how to have fun whilst getting the most out of the equipment in the Sports Legacy Zone, exercising muscles and increasing fitness.

For example, with Proludic’s Monkey Bars, Steve Backley explains how switching your grip from over to under the bar, means you can alternate from working your triceps to your biceps.

He also provides useful advice for novices – to warm up with shoulder and back stretches before attempting a two handed approach on each move – while also suggesting how to increase difficulty as you get more confident by moving on to a quicker ‘Tarzan’ swing.

With the Up and Over challenge, he also shows the routes around the climbing zone, encouraging you to plan a strategy and then aim to improve your personal best time with each attempt.

There are also team challenges such as the timed relay, explaining the challenge for friends to work together as they aim to travel the full length of the play equipment in a relay before reaching the touch board to stop the clock.

By setting these challenges, Proludic and the virtual coaches are aiming to make getting fit fun and also easily accessible, showing how to get the most out of equipment available free to communities in the local parks and play areas.