Good Gym Berlin

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BACKGROUND

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GoodGym arose out of a frustration with normal gyms being a waste of energy and human potential. GoodGym is a new model of voluntary action that focuses on our experiences as volunteers and runners. Because it fits into our lives it’s easier for us to commit for the longer term, it makes it easy for us to keep going. Though what we’re doing on each run may only have a small impact, our ability to easily mobilise hundreds of runners gives the project a large impact overall. Originally founded by Ivo Gomley in London, the initiative is now introduced to Berlin.

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CONCEPT

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The concept of GoodGym is explained here:

• http://bit.ly/GG_Hailo (English) or
• http://bit.ly/GG_Spiegel (German).

In principle, there are three elements:

• Weekly running exercise in groups.
• Once a month, these runs are combined with 30 minutes of voluntary work (e.g. gardening, other examples from London).
• The main goal however is the establishment of partnerships between runners and "senior coaches".