{"id":3158,"date":"2008-03-18T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T17:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/03\/18\/gym-for-free-runaway-success\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T10:53:54","slug":"gym-for-free-runaway-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/18\/gym-for-free-runaway-success\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gym for Free\u2019 Runaway Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"210\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/FreeGym232x180.jpg\"\/>A NEW health initiative in Birmingham which allows the public to access free gym, fitness and swimming sessions is to be rolled out across the city following a fantastic response.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The city\u2019s \u2018Gym For Free\u2019 project was launched in the Ladywood area of the city last month at a cost of \u00a3500,000. In four weeks alone it has seen more than 2,000 people take up the service. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust, who launched the project, described the project as a \u201crunaway success\u201d and revealed plans to launch the service across the city in partnership with Birmingham City Council. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Kevin Haywood, Head of Public Health Programmes at the Trust, said: \u201cWe are absolutely delighted with the response from the community. We hope residents of all ages will continue to embrace this opportunity to improve their health and enhance their life expectancy.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0He added: \u201cLadywood was chosen for the pilot because we know it has high levels of childhood obesity and infant mortality, while male life expectancy in the ward is 72, compared with 79 in neighbouring areas.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0Ladywood constituency residents can enrol at Small Heath Leisure Centre, Nechells Community Sports Centre, Summerfield Community Centre and Newtown Pool and Fitness, and will then be able use any of Birmingham City Council\u2019s leisure sites. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0The project will see the Trusts\u2019 latest children\u2019s gym launched in Small Heath next month.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NEW health initiative in Birmingham which allows the public to access free gym, fitness and swimming sessions is to be rolled out across the city following a fantastic response. &#13; The city\u2019s \u2018Gym For Free\u2019 project was launched in the Ladywood area of the city last month at a cost of \u00a3500,000. In four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}