| ADA | The Americans with Disabilities Act is a federal civil rights law that protects individuals with disabilities by prohibiting discrimination, ensuring equal opportunities, and mandating reasonable accommodations. More information on what ADA regulations entail can be found on their website. |
| Adjustable Resistance | A mechanism in Greenfields’ Professional Series that allows users to rotate a dial to select the difficulty level of their workout. |
| ASTM | An organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical international standards. Specific to the parks and recreation industry, it provides guidelines for ensuring installations are safe for users. More information on their standards for the design, installation, and maintenance of playgrounds and other similar park amenities can be found on their website. |
| Body-Weight Resistance | Exercises where the intensity is based on the user’s body weight. This can include both calisthenic workouts and exercises using Greenfields’ Legacy Series equipment, which uses only a percentage of the user’s body weight (varies by unit). |
| Calisthenics | Exercises based on one’s body weight, such as pull-ups, dips, and push-ups, that require no equipment or basic, static equipment. |
| Critical Fall Height (CFH) | The point on an exercise unit designating the maximum height someone could from when performing exercises on that unit. This is used to determine the surfacing requirements when installing different units, so as to provide a surfacing to help minimize injury from a potential fall. |
| EWF | Engineered Wood Fibers can be used to create a fall attenuating surfacing option, often made from the inner wood of trees. |
| Fall Attenuating Surfacing | Surfaces under installations designed to absorb impact from falls, reducing the risk of severe injuries. Requirements for fall attenuating surfacing depends on installations’ critical fall heights. |
| Fixed Resistance | Exercises where the unit retains the same level of difficulty regardless of the user, without the ability to adjust it. |
| Functional Fitness | Exercises that mimic motions seen in daily life so as to improve one’s ability to perform everyday tasks. |
| Galvanize | Coating iron or steel in a protective layer of zinc to increase durability. |
| In-ground | A method of installation in which footers are dug for each unit and equipment posts are anchored in the concrete footers. See a video demo of this method of installation here. |
| Joint-Use Site | Also referred to as a joint-use area, a location or ammenity that is shared between different entities as to increase community access to different resources. One example of a Joint-Use Site would be a school opening up their fitness center to be used by the public after school hours |
| Low-Impact | Exercises that include fluid movement as to minimize the force placed on joints. |
| PIP | Poured-in-Place rubber is a surfacing option that creates a durable, fall attenuating surface underneath installations. |
| Soft-surface installation | Installation over a surface consisting of asphalt, requiring concrete footers to ensure equipment is properly anchored in the ground. See a video demo of this method of installation here. |
| Surface mount | A method of installation in which a concrete pad is poured and equipment is then bolted to the concrete pad. See a video demo of this method of installation here. |
