Workout in the fresh air |City of Gießen

Gießen (red).Spring is approaching with big steps.Time to get rid of the unpopular bacon and increase your personal fitness level again.If you are afraid to go to the gym or who is "just jogging" too boring, Gießen Marketing GmbH recommends a detour to Linden Leihgeste to the Mühlbergsiedlung.

The small district, which is only around seven kilometers from the city center of Gießen and can be reached well by bike, has a small sporty treasure on the edge of the forest-a well-developed trim-dich path.

Right behind the sports home of TSG Leihgestern on the Sportfeld street it starts: The Trimm-Dich-Pfad Bergwerkswald offers a variety of possibilities on a 2.1 kilometer circuit to work out at a total of 20 stations.A shell framework, stretching bars for pull-ups, lying tree trunks for hopping and balancing or smaller wood tribes that can be used for stretching tuna ensure diversity and variety.

During the exercises, the components are addressed, stretching, strength and coordination.Without a lot of technical effort, but with a lot of fun in the fresh air in the at the same time soothing surroundings of the Middle Hessian Forest.

About every 200 meters you will meet the typical trim-dich signs during the tour, which quickly and easily bring the next fitness exercise closer to you.There are opportunities for beginners and advanced users.The trained muscle areas are also shown.The trim-dich path is accessible all year round.When the weather is wet and wet, however, the athletes have to prepare for mushy paths and sometimes slippery sports equipment.

The trim-dich movement celebrated its fifty year in 2020.It was launched by the German Sports Association in the early 1970s.At that time, doctors raised the alarm because of the strong increase in so-called civilization diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in Germany.Around 1,500 fitness courses and trim-dich paths were created all over Germany.The course in Linden near Gießen was also installed in the 1970s.A year and a half ago, the city of Linden brought the fitness tour back on shape.With a new signage, an overview map, bicycle stands at the entrance and partly new devices, sports enthusiasts can broke extensively to full body training with a fun factor.Corona pandemic has certainly contributed to rediscovering the partly forgotten benefit of the trim-dich path.

From the Gießen city center, the course is easy to reach by bike.From the rental gearer path, an elongated, quite straight bike path leads to Mühlberg.There directly into the first street to the left, the Waldstraße, and you will soon reach the TSG rental yesterday's sports home, where the path begins right behind on the edge of the forest.So what else waiting for?Turning shoes packed and off you go.