Councils embark on outdoor gym frenzy, but are they worth it?

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Green Gym’s unofficial tag line is “physical activity with a purpose,” and this is how managing director Craig Lister typically pitches the program. “Rather than go to the gym to lift things that don’t need to be lifted, give us three hours of the week. At the end of each session,
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