Why no monkey bars in parks or even gyms? So rare

[FlatWhite]

One of the best grip and arm workout stationary and they are practically non existent for adult work out/training. They seem to be seen as "play" for very young children only, but this foolishness is ignorant. Monkey bars are an exceedingly good exercise for adults too.

Give me a pull up bar, parallel bars and monkey bars, and I can do better conditioning on those 3 simple constructs than the vast majority of people who pay 60 dollars a month can do at their gyms.

I wonder if they are considered a liability. Some pudgy guy or gal jumps up there, looses their grip and then breaks their osteoporosis leg bones for the 1 foot they fall. Whoops can't have monkey bars, too dangerous for the balsa wood bone types who can't dead hang for even 1 second and don't realize it until they try it. Whoops, a visit to the ER, lawsuit.

As a strong person, I feel discriminated against. I want my monkey bars in parks. Serious ones, that require some distance from one end to the other.

[Mr.MojoRisin']

They just went out of style man

[OctoberRed]

One of the best grip and arm workout stationary and they are practically non existent for adult work out/training. They seem to be seen as "play" for very young children only, but this foolishness is ignorant. Monkey bars are an exceedingly good exercise for adults too.

Give me a pull up bar, parallel bars and monkey bars, and I can do better conditioning on those 3 simple constructs than the vast majority of people who pay 60 dollars a month can do at their gyms.

I wonder if they are considered a liability. Some pudgy guy or gal jumps up there, looses their grip and then breaks their osteoporosis leg bones for the 1 foot they fall. Whoops can't have monkey bars, too dangerous for the balsa wood bone types who can't dead hang for even 1 second and don't realize it until they try it. Whoops, a visit to the ER, lawsuit.

As a strong person, I feel discriminated against. I want my monkey bars in parks. Serious ones, that require some distance from one end to the other.

Ive only seen them in one gym where it's the old school mentality. All weights, no machines, old looking weights at that, and juiced up guys from one corner to the next.

[GhostofDempsey]

Because too many kids fell off them and cracked their skulls. Lawsuits ensued and that is the rest of the story.

[OctoberRed]

Because too many kids fell off them and cracked their skulls. Lawsuits ensued and that is the rest of the story.

Thats why most gyms have a strict age requirement and tiny injury waiver clause in those long drawn out contracts.

[BennyST]

We still have them in Aus in most decent PGs. I always still jump on briefly when taking the kid down to play haha. All the other adults look at me like ‘wtf is with this guy??

It is amazing how few adults can just swing across them though.

[Anthony342]

Probably also because delicate PC **** think the name is somehow racist.

[New England]

insurance. if a kid falls on his head from monkey bar height he can get a head injury, break his neck, etc.


yeah, any decent kid will know how to fall and protect himself, but you have to design and insure these parks in consideration of kids wtihout any parental guidance or sense. you got a kid frmo a dirt poor family who never took him to a park and all of a sudden he's 6, in kindergarden, and falls from the monks and he could get seriously, seriously hurt.

[OctoberRed]

insurance. if a kid falls on his head from monkey bar height he can get a head injury, break his neck, etc.


yeah, any decent kid will know how to fall and protect himself, but you have to design and insure these parks in consideration of kids wtihout any parental guidance or sense. you got a kid frmo a dirt poor family who never took him to a park and all of a sudden he's 6, in kindergarden, and falls from the monks and he could get seriously, seriously hurt.

Don't most gyms have strict age requirements to even be in there?

[BLASTER1]

We still have them in Aus in most decent PGs. I always still jump on briefly when taking the kid down to play haha. All the other adults look at me like ‘wtf is with this guy??

It is amazing how few adults can just swing across them though.

Ha i use them to but they are all too low to the ground and not long enough.
Still glad though that we still have the monkey bars in playgrounds its what i grew up playing on.