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A brief introduction to the outdoor gym at the Estadio sports complex

4th Dec 2024 | 2-min read

Unidad Deportiva Atanasio Girardot, Estadio

 

Located within Unidad Deportiva Atanasio Girardot, Estadio

This outdoor gym, set amongst leafy trees, provides everything you need for a solid workout or callisthenics session. Despite being located at the southern edge of the Atanasio Girardot sports complex and alongside a road, the workout zone feels enclosed thanks to the surrounding greenery and overhanging branches.

Whether you’re looking for a place to do callistenics or a more standard gym workout, the Estadio outdoor gym has distinct areas in which to work out. The workout zone is seemingly colour-coded, with almost all the callisthenics bars painted yellow whilst all the gym equipment and machines are blue.

The callisthenics bars include pull-up bars, parallel bars and monkey bars/Swedish ladders.

If you want to lift weights, you have bench press racks and a multi-purpose workout machine, not to mention resistance machines and abdominal benches. There is even a tyre to flip over.

Incidentally, the Unidad Deportiva Atanasio Girardot is Medellín’s biggest sports complex, and it’s a great place to explore on foot and take in all manner of sports and activities. You will want to check the football fixtures, as the Estadio Atanasio Girardot is where both Atlético Medellín and Deportivo Independiente Medellín call home.

Here are some of the sports you can play at this complex:

  • Athletics

  • Baseball

  • Basketball

  • Football

  • Martial arts

  • Swimming and underwater sports

  • Table tennis

  • Tennis

  • Volleyball

There is also a skatepark, and the whole sports complex is perfect for rollerskating. In fact, the complex is right across the road from an outdoor rink.

To be honest, Unidad Deportiva Atanasio Girardot is probably worth a page on its own!

Where else can you do callisthenics in Medellín?

There are other callisthenic parks and outdoor gyms all across Medellín, which you can find just by walking or running around like I did. Calisthenic Parks is a site that lists where you can do open-air workouts across the city. I couldn’t tell you how accurate and up-to-date most of the locations for callisthenic parks are, but the site can give you some ideas about where you can do callisthenics in Medellín.

Do you have anything to share about these callisthenics locations in Laureles or any other workout area in Medellín?

What sport do you want to play?