A Modern Street Workout Area for Outdoor Sports
GrandAngoulême strengthens its commitment to sport for all by deploying a new street workout area complemented by USB-charging fitness equipment. This innovative development is part of an active policy for outdoor sports development, aiming to make sports practice more accessible, more attractive, and better integrated into the daily lives of Charente residents.
Designed to accommodate practitioners of all levels, this street workout area offers a free, open, and evolving space where everyone can train at their own pace. Whether a beginner, regular athlete, or experienced athlete, the facility allows for complete physical activity, combining muscle strengthening, cardio training, and agility, in a modern and connected setting.

Street Workout: A Free and Functional Practice
Street workout is based on a simple principle: using body weight to develop strength, coordination, endurance, and mastery of movement. The street workout area installed in GrandAngoulême provides iconic equipment for this discipline, promoting a free and functional practice.
Street workout stations notably include pull-up bars, dip stations, and various apparatuses, allowing for a wide variety of exercises. Users can perform pull-ups, dips, muscle-ups, core exercises, static exercises, or dynamic movements derived from calisthenics.
This diversity allows for natural progression: beginners can learn basic movements, while experienced practitioners find an ideal ground to push their limits and work on more technical figures.
A Street Workout Area Suitable for All Levels
One of the great assets of this street workout area in GrandAngoulême lies in its accessibility. The equipment is designed to allow safe and intuitive use, regardless of the practice level. The varied heights of the bars and the multiplicity of stations offer the possibility to adapt exercises to one’s physical capabilities.
This inclusive approach promotes diversity among users. Young people, adults, seasoned athletes, or simple fitness enthusiasts can interact in the same space, creating a motivating collective dynamic. Street workout thus becomes a vector of social connection, where mutual aid and sharing are an integral part of the practice.
USB-Charging Fitness Equipment to Complement the Street Workout Area
In addition to the street workout area, GrandAngoulême has chosen to install several USB-charging fitness equipment units, bringing an innovative and sustainable dimension to the development. This equipment transforms physical effort into green energy, allowing users to charge smartphones and tablets via USB or induction during training.
Among the installed equipment, there is notably a USB Elliptical Bike and a USB Bike. This equipment allows for effective cardio training while raising users’ awareness of energy production through human effort. This fun and educational approach enhances the attractiveness of the space and encourages regular practice.
The combination of a street workout area and connected equipment creates a complete sports space where physical performance, technological innovation, and environmental awareness meet.

A Connected and Sustainable Sports Space
The integration of USB charging into an outdoor sports space meets the current expectations of users, especially younger generations. Sport becomes interactive, useful, and rooted in daily practices. This connected street workout area perfectly illustrates the evolution of urban sports equipment, now conceived as fully-fledged living spaces.
The installed equipment is designed for intensive outdoor use. Robust, durable, and resistant to climatic conditions, they guarantee optimal longevity and limited maintenance, meeting the requirements of local authorities.
A Street Workout Area at the Heart of GrandAngoulême’s Sports Policy
With this new street workout area, GrandAngoulême affirms its commitment to promoting an active and sustainable lifestyle. The facility encourages free sports practice, without time constraints or subscriptions, and contributes to the fight against sedentary lifestyles.
Accessible throughout the year, this space allows residents to train, meet, and share moments around sports. It becomes a true meeting point, fostering social cohesion and collective well-being.
A Model for Sports Facility Development for Local Authorities
This project perfectly illustrates the capacity of local authorities to offer modern, attractive, and inclusive sports equipment. By combining a high-performance street workout area and USB-charging fitness equipment, GrandAngoulême offers an innovative vision of outdoor sports, adapted to current challenges of health, ecology, and social connection.




