More than 250 thousand people became participants of the project “Green Fitness” for 4 years

This year, there were about 1.4 thousand trainings in 25 Russian cities.

(KZN.RU, September 26, Alsu Safina). 150 thousand people became the participants of the project “Green Fitness” this season. In 2018, it gained the federal status and passed in 25 cities of Russia. For the current season, about 1.4 thousand training sessions were conducted. The most popular among them were training in yoga, stretching, and zumba. Murat Dimitrov, the head of the social-sports movement “Green Fitness”, reported on the main results of the project this at a press conference in the IA “Tatar-inform”.

The project “Green Fitness” started in 2015 in Kazan. About 5 thousand people visited it for the whole training season then. Over 4 years, more than 2000 trainings have been held during in the project, and the number of project participants increased to 250000 people. For 4 seasons, the number of people who joined this sports movement increased, the geography of the project expanded, classes began to be carried out by professional coaches. In addition, the number of trainings increased.

This year, residents of 25 Russian cities were able join the project “Green Fitness”. “We have developed an operator-format system when we find activists in cities, train them, provide technical equipment, develop an advertising campaign”, said Murat Dimitrov.

In the first year of the project, the trainings took place only on weekends. Now the project participants have the opportunity to engage in physical culture and sports in parks, squares, and embankments several times a week. On weekends, there is a major Sunday festival, which gathers all the sports training that takes place in the city.

Murat Dimitrov said that the “Green Fitness” trainings are completely different. There are over 15 destinations suitable for different age categories: children, youth, middle-aged people, and pensioners.

The most active participants can score points thanks to the mobile application and get gifts at the end of the season.

The head of the social-sports movement noted that they are constantly trying to find new interesting directions that can be practiced outdoors. For example, fitness on trampolines, acrobatic rock and roll, and others. “Our task is to constantly fill the space with sports, involve sports organizations, and create an opportunity that everyone can practice 2-3 times a week”, said Murat Dimitrov. It is assumed that new directions will appear in the next season.

The organizers of the project plan to enter the cities of the CIS countries. Thus, since 2017, “Green Fitness” is already taking place in Belarus. It is likely that soon the project will be launched in Kazakhstan. Recently, the project was presented in Kazakhstan at the forum of Russian-Kazakh cooperation. An agreement was reached on the implementation of the project on the territory of this country. Soon, the presentation of the “Green Fitness” will be held in St. Petersburg at a congress of Russian youth governments.

“This project brings physical education to the masses. I think the project will develop and last for more than one year”, believes Anna Zakhmatova, the deputy minister for Youth Affairs of the RT.