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Gym activities: outdoor exercise

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Gym activities: outdoor exercise

Participants do sit-ups outdoors as part of a 'boot-camp' style class run by a company called Sixpax in 2007. Such classes often took the gym outdoors with a range of exercises designed to replicate military training.

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David Green, Gyms – Modern gyms, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/41038/gym-activities-outdoor-exercise (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Green, published 7 March 2013.