Functional fitness for older, active adults
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The workout designed to give our golden years a healthy glow.
How Does LifeTrail Work?
Rather than isolating the muscles to work them independently, LifeTrail Advanced Wellness System uses functional fitness, an integrated approach that encourages all the muscles to work together to better prepare the body for the demands of real life.
Give older, active adults the freedom of revitalizing fitness with LifeTrail Advanced Wellness System, the outdoor workout designed to make it easier for users to perform daily tasks and enjoy a better quality of life. LifeTrail Advanced Wellness System includes 21 activity panels built on the principles of functional fitness: progressively challenging exercises patterned after the twists, turns, and movements of everyday life. The result: Adults are stronger and have more energy to complete the real-life activities that matter most.
Each station offers three activity panels and multiple, progressive exercises to keep workouts fun and challenging.
User-friendly instructions make it easy to customize the workout according to comfort level and ability.
Users apply their own body weight as resistance to build total-body strength, flexibility, and balance.
Safety bars help beginners get accustomed to the equipment, but can be relied upon less as comfort level grows.
Smaller muscles that stabilize the joints get strengthened too, giving users greater movement and preventing injury.
Recommended surfacing is concrete.
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See the system in action and download complete product specifications at LifeTrail.com.
Closed-chain exercises, which keep the user’s feet in contact with the ground as they bear their own weight, make the muscles work together in the same multi-joint movements they make in daily life.
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LifeTrail Advanced Wellness System promotes and supports the key elements of physical wellness that make for a better quality of life:
21 Activity Panels. 159 Exercises. Countless Health Benefits.
Result: Better posture Benefit: Decreases the risk for arthritis in the spine
Choose from our complete line of 21 activity panels to create a system of up to 7 three-sided stations. Each activity panel features multiple exercises, for a total of 159 possible exercises.
As users go through the proper motions of each exercise, they’re naturally standing taller, drawing their shoulder blades down, elongating the neck, and bringing the hips into neutral alignment—all the elements of good posture.
Watch demonstration videos for all 159 exercises at LifeTrail.com.
Proven Results for a Better Quality of Life
Result: Improved balance Benefit: Prevents dangerous falls LifeTrail’s exercises include elements of controlled instability—a technique that actually builds the user’s stability. As users become stronger, they can take away points of contact to improve their balance.
Result: Greater flexibility Benefit: Decreases risk of injury and lower-back pain A complete workout on LifeTrail actively stretches most of the body’s muscles—including the smaller, joint-stabilizing muscles that many workouts overlook.
Result: Increased strength Benefit: Improves the ability to independently lift heavy objects Each LifeTrail exercise uses the user’s own body weight as resistance—rather than free weights or machines—in order to build strength in a way that’s constantly challenging without ever being intimidating.
Anatomy of an Activity Panel The LifeTrail Advanced Wellness System activity panels have been designed and fully tested to meet the needs of older, active adults. • Each activity panel includes detailed instructional signage and any matching exercise equipment • Multiple exercises cater to all fitness levels, from beginner to advanced • Large images and text make the instructions easy to read and understand • Text and colors have the most readability for older-adult optical health
Example of a custom sign
Welcome Sign Provides helpful instructions on how to use the system and maintain proper form as you exercise. Customize it for an additional fee to promote local sponsors or community priorities. ZZLT0066
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21 lbs (10kg)
• When necessary, exercise equipment can be adjusted to fit the user’s height • Risk management disclaimer appears at the bottom of every panel
Result: More muscular endurance Benefit: Boosts energy and reduces fatigue With 159 possible exercises, LifeTrail offers enough variety to keep users motivated to work out regularly. The more they work out, the more their muscle endurance grows, and the easier it becomes for them to stay active longer.
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Hip Lift & Thigh Squeeze Exercises
Inverted Row Exercises
Hip lifts strengthen the hamstrings, glutes, and lower-back muscles, while inner thigh squeezes build the hip adductor, pelvic floor, and transverses abdominus muscles. Hip stretches focus on lengthening the piriformis muscle. Platform features a non-slip surface for added safety.
Strengthens neck, rear deltoid, abdominal, and scapular retraction muscles, as well as the torso stabilizers, hip abductors, and gluteus medius. Platform features a non-slip surface for added safety.
Functional Fitness benefits:
• Increased lumbar spine stability • Decreased back pain • Increased pelvic floor control, which contributes to bowel control • Improved posture • Greater ability to stand up from a chair
Functional Fitness benefits:
• Greater ability to pull one’s own body weight or open heavy doors • Improved hip and knee stability • Decreased knee pain ZZLT0049S
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159 lbs (73kg)
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135 lbs (62kg)
For users to receive the most health benefits, it is recommended to purchase all activity panels. A minimum of 3 activity panels (or 1 station) is necessary for purchase. Item numbers are for surface-mount activity panels. In-ground mount available upon request. Activity panels shown on post-capped frames. Roof-topped versions also available. Frames are sold separately. All activity panel prices shown do not include frame.
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Lower-Body Cycling Exercises
Push-Up Exercises
Builds torso, leg, and glute strength, while raising muscle temperature by increasing blood flow to the muscles of the torso and lower body.
Builds upper-body strength in the arms, chest, and torso; strengthens the muscles in the upper back; and increases arm and shoulder flexibility.
Functional Fitness benefits:
Functional Fitness benefits:
• Increased lower-body endurance • Decreased knee pain • Increased muscle temperature, which decreases risk of muscle strains with larger exercise movements ZZLT0047S
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166 lbs (76kg)
• Greater ability to push one’s own body weight • Greater ability to break a fall with arms and protect face if falling forward ZZLT0050S
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44 lbs (20kg)
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) Exercises Builds coordination and flexibility in diagonal patterns through the shoulder and hip joints. Strengthens the rotator cuff muscles and facilitates scapular retraction. Also builds the gluteus medius.
Functional Fitness benefits:
Three squat exercises build three different areas of the body: the front squat increases lower-body strength and flexibility in the ankles, hips, and hamstrings; the lateral squat builds dynamic flexibility of inner thigh muscles and lateral strength in the hips and legs; and the split squat develops single leg strength, balance, and dynamic flexibility in the hip flexors.
• Greater range of motion • Reduced fatigue • Increased shoulder strength and decreased shoulder pain • Greater hip stability • Decreased risk of overuse injuries • Improved posture • Improved balance and stability while walking
Functional Fitness benefits:
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• Stronger legs for gardening • Greater ability to stand up from a low chair or stool • Increased lower-body flexibility • Improved gait when walking • Improved posture • Decreased knee pain WEIGHT
151 lbs (69kg)
41 lbs (19kg)
Overhead Press Exercises
Shoulder Stability & Strength Exercises
Stairs Exercises
Upper-Body Cycling Exercises
Extends the shoulders to strengthen the arm, shoulder, and upper-back muscles. Includes several wheelchairaccessible exercises.
Strengthens the small muscles that stabilize the shoulder joint, while increasing arm, shoulder, and middle-back muscle strength.
Strengthens the hip-stabilizing muscles and stretches the hip flexors while developing single leg strength on linear and lateral planes.
Forward and backward circular movements increase muscular temperature; build cardiac endurance; promote joint lubrication; and increase torso, shoulder, and arm muscle strength.
Functional Fitness benefits:
• Greater protection from shoulder joint and rotator cuff injury • Improved posture • Greater ability to pull one’s own body weight, such as when using the handles to get out of a car
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Functional Fitness benefits:
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• Greater ability to lift objects over head • Stronger hip stabilizers when one foot is lifted ZZLT0058S
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5
Squat Exercises
208 lbs (95kg)
Functional Fitness benefits:
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39 lbs (18kg)
• Increased lateral hip stability for improved balance while walking • Greater ability to go up and down stairs • Greater ability to keep hips over knees for improved posture WEIGHT
245 lbs (112kg)
• Increased upper-body endurance • Increased torso strength, which decreases risk of back injuries • Increased muscle temperature, which decreases risk of muscle strains with larger exercise movements ZZLT0046
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76 lbs (35kg)
For users to receive the most health benefits, it is recommended to purchase all activity panels. A minimum of 3 activity panels (or 1 station) is necessary for purchase. Item numbers are for surface-mount activity panels. In-ground mount available upon request. Activity panels shown on post-capped frames. Roof-topped versions also available. Frames are sold separately. All activity panel prices shown do not include frame.
See the system in action and download complete product specifications at LifeTrail.com.
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Wheelchair-Accessible Activity Panels
Promote inclusive exercise in your community with our six wheelchair-accessible activity panels, specially designed to meet ADA guidelines when accompanied by an accessible route and installed in accordance with our installation instructions.
Overhead Press Exercises (ADA) Strengthens the arm, shoulder, and upper-back muscles via shoulder extensions. Includes several ablebody exercises.
Functional Fitness benefits: • Greater ability to lift objects over head ZZLT0058S
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Standing Stretches & Yoga Poses
Weighted Squat Exercises
Stretches the obliques and strengthens the muscles of the lower body.
Strengthens legs and hip stabilizers.
Functional Fitness benefits:
• Greater ability to lift heavy objects, such as laundry baskets, boxes, even grandchildren
• Improved balance • Increased single leg strength ZZLT0063
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21 lbs (10kg)
208 lbs (95kg)
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173 lbs (79kg)
A series of total body stretches to promote shoulder blade protraction/retraction, lower-back extension, neck rotation, hip abduction, deep belly breathing, and more.
Functional Fitness benefits:
• Increased lung capacity and greater ability to pull oxygen deeply into lower part of lungs for a relaxation release • Stronger spinal erectors for greater strength and reduced pain in the lower back • Increased range of motion in the neck and decreased neck pain ZZLT0064
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Stretches (ADA)
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) Exercises (ADA)
Triceps Strength & Torso Stability Exercises (ADA)
Builds coordination and flexibility in diagonal patterns through the shoulder, while facilitating scapular retraction and strengthening the rotator cuff muscles. Also includes hamstring leg stretches for those who are able.
Features thigh squeeze, which strengthens the inner thigh, pelvic floor, and transverses abdominus muscles. Additional exercises stretch the obliques, while improving spinal rotation and strengthening the abdominal and tricep muscles.
Functional Fitness benefits:
Functional Fitness benefits:
• Greater range of motion • Reduced fatigue • Increased shoulder strength and decreased shoulder pain • Greater hamstring and spinal flexibility • Decreased risk of overuse injuries ZZLT0061S
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31 lbs (15kg)
• Increased spinal flexibility, which helps nourish spinal discs • Increased pelvic floor control, which contributes to bowel control • Greater torso stability for decreased back pain • Greater ability to lift body weight with the tricep muscles, as when getting out of a chair ZZLT0062S
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Shoulder Stability & Strength Exercises (ADA)
Builds leg strength, and hip, knee and ankle flexibility, while applying a proprioceptor stress, which challenges users to evenly distribute weight throughout the joints of their lower body. Wobble board features a non-slip surface for added safety.
Functional Fitness benefits:
Functional Fitness benefits:
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Functional Fitness benefits:
Wobble Board Exercises
52 lbs (24kg)
• Improved balance • Improve posture
• Greater protection from injury for the shoulder joint and rotator cuff • Improved posture • Increased torso stability WEIGHT
39 lbs (18kg)
• Increased upper-body muscular endurance • Increased torso strength, which decreases the risk of back injury • Increased muscle temperature, which decreases risk of muscle strains during larger exercise movements ZZLT0059
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Upper-Body Cycling (ADA)
Strengthens the small muscles that stabilize the shoulder joint, while increasing arm, shoulder, abdominal, and middle-back muscle strength.
Stretches the oblique and lower- back muscles, while improving spinal rotation and increasing abdominal, tricep, and leg strength. • Increased spinal flexibility, which helps nourish spinal discs • Increased leg strength, making it easier to stand up from a chair • Greater torso stability for decreased back pain • Greater ability to lift body weight with the tricep muscles, as when getting out of a deep chair
31 lbs (15kg)
Forward and backward circular movements increase muscular temperature; build cardiac endurance; promote joint lubrication; and increase torso, shoulder, and arm muscle strength.
Triceps Strength & Torso Stability Exercises Functional Fitness benefits:
21 lbs (10kg)
126 lbs (58kg)
WEIGHT
76 lbs (36kg)
For users to receive the most health benefits, it is recommended to purchase all activity panels. A minimum of 3 activity panels (or 1 station) is necessary for purchase. Item numbers are for surface-mount activity panels. In-ground mount available upon request. Activity panels shown on post-capped frames. Roof-topped versions also available. Frames are sold separately. All activity panel prices shown do not include frame.
See the system in action and download complete product specifications at LifeTrail.com.
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Customize Your System
Easy-Order System Packages
LifeTrail Advanced Wellness System is customizable to fit your community’s budget and space. Our design team will walk you through the five simple steps below to create your own system. For a head start, choose one of our system packages on the next page.
All-Inclusive System
Customizing your system is even easier with one of our system packages.
LifeTrail Advanced Wellness stations can be post-capped or roof-topped.
• 5 three-sided stations (stations 1-5 shown below) • 3 activity panels per station (15 regular activity panels) • Multiple exercises per activity panel, for 113 total exercises
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Stations with a roof
Stations with a roof
Stations with post caps
Stations with post caps
Select Your Frame
Item: LAWS-7000R-SM Weight: 3,491 lbs (1584kg)
Weight 204 lbs (93kg), Height 9'2" (2,8m)
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Post Caps
Weight 155 lbs (71kg), Height 7'2" (2,18m)
Roof
Item: LAWS-7000C-SM Weight: 3,148 lbs (1428kg)
Pick Your Activity Panels
Choose three activity panels for each station in your system. See all 21 LifeTrail activity panels— including six wheelchair-accessible panels—on pages 7-10.
The following station arrangement is recommended for your users to get the most out of every workout. You can also mix and match any of the 21 activity panels to create your own stations.
Assemble Your Stations
Your selected activity panels, along with your selected frame design, will be assembled to create your system of three-sided stations. See our recommended system on the next page.
Choose from any of our available colors to create a palette that matches your community’s aesthetic. Discuss your selected color preferences with your authorized representative. Eco-Armor® Colors: Playworld Systems is proud to have eliminated 99.999% of PVCs from our products with Eco-Armor, our more durable, PVC-free, thermoplastic Polyethylene (PE) coating.
Blue
Red
Roof and Plastic Colors
Red
Tangerine
Medallion
Yellow
Lime
Green
Bottle Green
Cobalt Blue
Blue
Plum
Chocolate
Brownstone
Beige
Graystone
Frame and Component Colors
Upper-Body Cycling Exercises
Tangerine
Yellow
Spring
Forest Green
Aqua
Chestnut
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Red
Medallion
Lime
Green
Matte Bottle Green
Blue
Azure
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STATION WITH ROOF
Activity Panel 3
STATION WITH POST CAPS
Plum
Sand
White
Black
Cobalt Blue
Matte Deep Chocolate
Beige
Silver
PNF Exercises
Item: LAWS-1R-SM
Item: LAWS-1C-SM
Weight: 542 lbs (246kg)
Weight: 493 lbs (224kg)
Concrete pad size: 15'2” x 12'4”
Push-Up Exercises
Wobble Board Exercises
(4,63m x 3,78m)
Item: LAWS-2R-SM Weight: 509 lbs (231kg)
Squat Exercises
Tricep Strength & Torso Stability Exercises
Item: LAWS-3R-SM Weight: 373 lbs (170kg)
Inverted Row & Core Exercises
Weighted Squat Exercises
PNF & Leg Extension Exercises (ADA)
Standing Stretches & Yoga Poses
Item: LAWS-4R-SM Weight: 575 lbs (261kg)
Upper-Body Cycling Exercises (ADA)
(6,46m x 4,6m)
Item: LAWS-5R-SM Weight: 678 lbs (308kg)
Overhead Press Exercises (ADA)
Item: LAWS-5C-SM Weight: 629 lbs (286kg)
Concrete pad size: 17'6” x 20'1”
(5,36m x 6,13m)
Item: LAWS-1R-ADA-SM Weight: 342 lbs (156kg)
Item: LAWS-1C-ADA-SM Weight: 293 lbs (133kg)
Concrete pad size: 15'9” x 17'
Shoulder Stability Stretch Exercises & Strength (ADA) Exercises (ADA)
Item: LAWS-4C-SM Weight: 526 lbs (239kg)
Concrete pad size: 21'2” x 15'10”
Tricep Strength & Torso Stability Exercises (ADA)
Item: LAWS-3C-SM Weight: 324 lbs (147kg)
(4,27m x 3,9m)
Overhead Press Exercises
(5,46m x 4,45m)
Concrete pad size: 14' x 12'8”
Shoulder Stability & Strength Exercises
Item: LAWS-2C-SM Weight: 460 lbs (209kg)
Concrete pad size: 17'9” x 14'6”
Stair Exercises
(ADA)
Copper
Hip Lift &Thigh Squeeze Exercises
Station 4
Brown
Station 1
Cluster System
Welcome Sign
Station 2
Trail System
Create Your Color Palette
Hunter Green
Lower-Body Cycling Exercises
Station 3
5
Activity Panel 2
Top View
Choose Your Layout
LifeTrail Advanced Wellness System can be installed as a trail system for a walking-enhanced workout, or as a cluster system for circuit training. We recommend installing LifeTrail on concrete. Each station’s concrete pad dimensions will be sent with your purchasing quote.
Activity Panel 1
Station 5
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Item: LAWS-5000C-SM Weight: 2,432 lbs (1104kg)
Recommended System
(ADA)
3
packed with instructiona l videos, com munity-build ing activities, an d more, incl uded with your or der.
Item: LAWS-5000R-SM Weight: 2,677 lbs (1215kg)
Station 6
2
Standard System
• All 7 three-sided stations (all shown below) • 3 activity panels per station (15 regular activity panels and 6 wheelchair-accessible activity panels) • Multiple exercises per activity panel, for 159 total exercises
Station 7
1
FREE
Programm ing Guide,
Item: LAWS-2R-ADA-SM Weight: 472 lbs (215kg)
(4,85m x 5,18m) Item: LAWS-2C-ADA-SM Weight: 423 lbs (192kg)
Concrete pad size: 20'8” x 19'10”
(6,34m x 5,82m)
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FREE Programming Guide With Your Order The LifeTrail programming guide is packed with helpful tools, including: • All 21 activity panels and instructional signage • Instructional videos for all 159 exercises • Training with the presence of chronic disease and joint challenges • Training for desired outcomes: - Improved posture - Improved joint stabilization - Increased core strength - Upper-body strength - Increased lower-body strength - Improved balance • Activity log to track user progress • Research and related materials
To learn more about adding LifeTrail to your community, log on to LifeTrail.com or call 1.800.233.8404. © 2011 LifeTrail® and The World Needs Play® are registered trademarks of Playworld Systems®, Inc.