Vita Parcours: an outdoors fitness success story

Fifty years after the first Vita Parcours outdoors fitness trail was opened, they're still very popular. The idea of physical exercise in the woods quickly caught on in Switzerland, and the 100^th Vita Parcours trail was already opened five years after they were introduced. (SRF, swissinfo.ch)

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Vita Parcours: an outdoors fitness success story

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