Fitness road in La Thuile
The twelve stages of the Fitness Road of La Thuile allow you to do aerobic and anaerobic training in a super-regenerating natural setting
Come / there is a road in the woods / I know its name / do you want to know it?
This is what Gino Bechi, Alberto Rabagliati and the little king of Italian song Claudio Villa sang many years ago, at the top of their lungs. All three would be surprised to discover that today, in La Thuile, the name of this enigmatic road in the woods has become ‘Fitness Road’.
Rampant Anglophilia aside, the surprising aspect lies entirely in that term fitness. Yes, because today these woodland paths are no longer taken to visit lonely old ladies, admire the landscape or pick blackberries, blueberries and other berries. Today people go to the woods also, if not above all, to develop muscle mass and definition, loosen the joints and increase resistance to effort; in short, they go there to do physical culture.
Aware of this, La Thuile has equipped itself with a spectacular Fitness Road composed of twelve stages, one for each different exercise.
You start off lively from Piazza Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto, you travel along a connecting stretch and then you continue to the Preylet picnic area, in the Entrèves area. You don't have to be an experienced body builder, because at each of the twelve stages a sign has been installed that explains in detail the areas of the body involved, the objectives and how to perform the exercise. Psycho-physical well-being is within everyone's reach, young and old, strong and skinny; furthermore, the Fitness Road can be done in at least three different seasons of the year: autumn, spring and summer. In winter, with the snow, maybe it's better to go skiing...
