Across Switzerland, around 500 Zurich vitaparcours are provided and maintained by local organizations. The VITA Parcours Foundation ensures quality assurance and is launching a new app in collaboration with Zurich. The app is designed to encourage people to keep fit by exercising outdoors and to do something for their health and well-being. The new Zurich vitaparcours app is a course finder, training aid, and tracker all in one. It brings more variety to training on all 500 Zurich vitaparcours courses in Switzerland:
✓ Find Zurich vitaparcours ✓ Personalized training plans ✓ New exercises and tips & tricks ✓ Tracking and analysis ✓ Share with friends and motivate each other
Find Zurich vitaparcours
Find the Zurich vitaparcours near you. Whether it's where you live, work, or are currently on vacation.
Individual training plans – developed by BASPO
What do you feel like doing on your circuit today? Do you want to do a full-body workout? Train your strength or endurance? Or would you rather do something for your flexibility? Choose what suits you today and decide how intensively you want to train depending on the exercise and number of repetitions. Save your plan for future workouts or share it with your friends.
New exercises and tips & tricks
With around 100 exercises – ranging from easy to difficult – your training on the Zurich vitaparcours will be even more varied. All exercises have been tested and approved by the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Management in Magglingen (EHSM). And the many tips and tricks about training, the forest, and safety show you what constitutes a good workout and provide you with useful information from the BFU, the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention.
Tracking and analysis
Get started and do your workout on the Zurich vitaparcours with your chosen training plan. Track the distance of the course, the duration, and the number of exercises you have done. After your run, compare your pure running time on your course with people your age. An overview of all workouts shows you your training successes and completed training runs in your chosen time period.
Share with friends and motivate them
Those who train a lot with the app will be rewarded. Collect awards and receive a gift. After your run, you can also share your training moment and training plan with friends. Maybe they will accompany you on your next training session on the course?
The Zurich vitaparcours is accessible to everyone, anytime, anywhere, free of charge.
