Walking Exercise Park with Man-Made Hill

摘要

The invention is a walking exercise park with a man-made hill. The hill can contain one or more slopes and steps that can be selected and walked or jogged. The goal of the man-made hill is to conveniently provide improved and expeditious health and fitness benefits as compared with ordinary park or level track walking. A person will be able to easily manage walking path elevation changes and have complete control over their workout on a concentrated footprint in a safe environment. The park can also be used for sports or athletic training or physical therapy and injury rehabilitation. The park can be lighted or covered or enclosed.

主权项

1. There are presently no parks, resorts, retirement communities, truck stops, rest areas, fitness facilities, lifestyle centers, outdoor malls or other similar areas that persons gather or frequent that has a walking exercise park with a man-made hill for the purpose of safe, convenient and efficient exercise with the hill providing an improved means of muscular and cardiovascular fitness.
The walking park will benefit persons of all ages that can safely walk as a form of exercise. At the summit of the hill, exercisers will have a repeated sense of accomplishment and a scenic view to the grounds below. Compared with level ground walking, hill walking is a better and a more efficient means of cardiovascular exercise with leg muscles more engaged and minimal skeletal shock and stress to the joints, such as from jogging. The walking park is safe and not subject to vehicle, motorcycle or bicycle traffic. Walkers or joggers maintain complete control over workout with options for sloped paths ascended or descended and steps on a concentrated footprint. The park paths could be built using an optimum surface material that provides adequate traction and is easily maintained. Man-made hill with sloped paths and steps would appear manageable without being intimidating to walkers or joggers. Construction of hill can be minimized and possibly profitable through the acceptance of non-hazardous spoil piles (i.e. rock, concrete, dirt, clay, etc.) from civil engineering project or construction and demolition spoil piles. Such spoil piles will typically have to be hauled and disposed of at landfills for a fee. A determined fee for disposal of these materials at the future walking park could be set so to be beneficial to both parties. Walking parks can be constructed almost anywhere for convenience such as at the multiple types of locations listed above in the first claim. Walking down slopes also has health/fitness benefits. Walking in fresh air is invigorating.