The fresh air gym

Updated November 20 2012 - 12:08pm, first published October 24 2012 - 10:12am
The gym workout is shedding its indoor routine and emerging into the sunshine.
The gym workout is shedding its indoor routine and emerging into the sunshine.

I'm sitting on a rowing machine but instead of staring at a line of exercise bikes in the local gym I'm gazing at two squirrels frisking in the grass. Beyond them are ducks paddling on a lake fringed with willow trees. I'm at a free outdoor gym in North London's Broomfield Park and if there's a heaven for fitness junkies, this is it.

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