GLENPOOL, OK -- Glenpool Elementary School has created a comprehensive fitness trail on its playground.

"It's specialized equipment like you'd see in a health club, but it's purposely made for outdoors," said Diana Davis, a physical education and nutrition teacher at the school and organizer of the project.

The new quarter-mile paved path, called the Glenpool Warrior Walk 'N Talk Trail, winds around the school's playground and will offer nine fitness stations with machines such as the seated chest press, double sit-up board and a rowing machine.

The equipment is expected to be installed in two weeks, Davis said.

Read more about the project here.

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• The school will get the equipment for about $11,000, although it retails for about $25,000. Davis said the equipment was marked down after it arrived at its original purchaser with scratches on it.
• Students helped to raise $20,000 toward the project in about one year; they have about $3,000 left to raise, Davis said. This has been raised by collecting change from students, a Toolbox for Education grant from the Lowes, and donations from local organizations.
• "This year, every class that earns $100 gets a pedometer," she said.
• "Our playground gets pretty soggy, and we wanted something where they could still exercise," Davis said.
• The trail will be open to all Glenpool students and to the public after school hours.