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Where are "fitness carts"?

Blog entry posted by nbruning 5 days ago
Key words: Fitness, Exercise, Weight Loss, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Diabetes Prevention.

Green Carts are a terrific idea. Let's move further.

Green Carts are mobile food carts that offer fresh produce in certain New York City areas. Local Law 9, signed by Mayor Bloomberg on March 13, 2024, establishes 1,000 permits for Green Carts. These hold promise for providing fresh fruits and vegetables in East and Central Harlem, where there are fewer outlets for health food than in many other parts of the city.   

How about taking the same idea and creating mobile Fitness Carts in the same neighborhoods?  You could have a trained instructor run the cart, and people could rent light hand weights, exercise bands, push up platforms, and so on, and then go "next door" to the green cart for their healthy food.  Through subsidies, proprietors could even sell "packages" of food and fitness combos, doubling the chances of addressing overweight, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and osteoporosis, to name a few conditions related to food and physical activity.

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Riverside wrote

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I love the idea of this- bringing fitness closer to you to make it even easier to exercise! Especially to have trained fitness instructors running each cart- I know I would love to be able to pick someone's brain about fitness-related stuff, and paying for a personal trainer is WAY too expensive for me!