Show Ph Physical y Fitness Cluster 7 Added To Campus Cam p us Scenery Y I r by Ed Lile Lilt r y V Vy J Reporting Layout Editor i i il r rf r r f 4 5 f s f With a goal of making physical fitness a game everyone at will want to play a Perrier Fitness Cluster was recently installed directly east of tennis courts Constructed on a gravel base the outdoor exercise facility is designed to A put ut fun into AY physical h conditioning g A totally Y self self- self guiding g g s system Y stem with illustrated graphic panels helps to coach participants through a series of exercises The fitness cluster was designed by Ltd of San Francisco California The idea for a Perrier fitness circuit was first conceived by John Wiemer Director of Admissions in 1979 He laid the ground work for the project when he wrote a grant proposal th that lt included the graphic panel signs provided by Perrier A letter written to Weimer by Kathleen G. G Copeland Grant Director stated Congratulations on Utah Technical College being chosen as a recipient of a fitness circuit grant The amount was about 2000 A memo of January 1980 to President Cowgill from I met with Paul Gundersen and Joe Johnson concerning the feasibility of constructing a on campus We agreed that such a course could be built with the help of the students from building construction Well somewhere along the line the project ran into a stone wall and was r shelved The Perrier signs signs' for the project were stored the project was not scrapped but just set aside temporarily It was not until the spring of 1984 that the project again came alive Craig Forman Recreation Intramural Coordinator was contacted by Ltd requesting the signs graphic panels pan ls either be used or returned Forman moved into action evaluating the proposal and the decision was made to change the physical circuit into a physical cluster a condensed version of the sI spread read out circuit On July 18 1984 a letter was received from Suzanne Wren Public Relations of the Fitness Company a company name change accepting Formans Forman's proposal This left the way open to begin construction The original signs were returned to and new signs for the f fitness cluster were pro provided Finally after all the correspondence delay and post postponement of the project the thea a 7 y bid was awarded on October 10 1984 Actual construction began on October 23 by bys byi s i r Strangers' Strangers Custom Welding And now now UT ch has its physical fitness cluster luste t thanks to John John Weimer Weimer who started the project and to ral p Forman orman who saw it to toa to i a completion The fitness cluster consists of four series of exercises each located in a separate J module Each module is like mini gym a and provides a d different type of exercise dry warm-up warm stretching muscle strengthening cardiovascular conditioning a and d down cool-down combined with jogging and walking in between en modules The graphic f panel signs in the Central Information Station show participants exactly how and why to perform each exercise and the appropriate number of repetitions tf |