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6 Ways to Equip Your Campus’s Work Out Space

Check out these six suggestions on how to pump up your college's workout space.

September 11, 2014 Jessica Kennedy Leave a Comment

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Aside from digital wayfinding, a video wall can add another dimension to a college’s workout space. Some video walls can be used to display work out videos to a large fitness class, or provide a viewing surface for student-run fitness groups to design and choreograph the steps to next week’s class. Picture is a video wall by McFit, a Germany-based fitness center chain.

A sound system will fill a workout space with adrenaline-pumping music to help a college’s sports teams amp up their work out, or color the background with music for students looking for a jog on the treadmill. Sound systems will also enable fitness classes to crank up their own music sources and provide a mic connection so class attendees can follow the instructor’s directions.

What is a workout space without workout equipment? Update your workout space with the latest in exercise technology, including treadmills, ellipticals, rowing machines and free weights.

Instead of background music, some colleges install TVs in their work out spaces. TVs provide entertainment for students to crank out a long haul on the elliptical, and even display upcoming on-campus events for students who live at the gym.

Installed touch screens can be installed in a college’s work out space. Some colleges use touch screen panels as a way for students to sign up for fitness classes, see which fitness rooms are available and reserve a fitness room for an event. Pictured is a touch screen panel by Creston.

Digital signage can fit anywhere on a campus, even in fitness centers. Digital signage can be used to advertise upcoming fitness classes or other on campus events.

Nowadays, a college’s fitness center is more than a space where students can lift things up and put them down.

With new waves of technologically advanced students stepping foot on campus, colleges sometimes struggle to find new ways to update their workout spaces.

A good place for college’s to start is by looking at the big picture – literally. Solutions like video walls, digital signage and TVs can be installed anywhere in a workout space, including cardio rooms, rooms for fitness classes and even in varsity-level training facilities.

Each of these solutions can provide students who want to work out with entertainment, updates on campus event, or even a video with a choreographed fitness class.

Colleges should also consider smaller solutions while upgrading their workout spaces. This includes an updated sound system to pump music into fitness rooms alongside a mic’d instructor, or a touch screen panel for students to reserve fitness rooms and sign up for exercise classes.

Finally, no workout space is complete without workout equipment. For colleges with outdated or overused equipment, technology decision makers should look into the latest exercise machines, including treadmills, ellipticals, rowing machines, stair masters, and even free weights.

John Leahy, Director of Recreational Sports at Stonehill College says that integrating innovative workout technology in a college’s fitness space will only improve students’ experience.

“The new and continuing technology in the exercise area creates a more fun, enjoyable, diverse and challenging environment for our students as well as college students all over the country,” he says.

Jessica Kennedy
Jessica Kennedy

Jessica Kennedy is an editor at TechDecisions Media, targeting the higher education market. Jessica joined the TechDecisions team in 2014 and covers technologies that improve teaching and learning.

Tagged With: Digital Signage, Higher Ed, Interactive System, Speakers

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