Women walking against Covid - two years Urban Zone experience

The two-year follow-up as participating observer at the Urban Zone training group and what’s up related platform, took place in Roseto degli Abruzzi - a small seaside town in Abruzzo - Italy, during the pandemic crisis for Covid-19. It has been a way to keep training despite the pandemic confinement, but it has also become a kind self-help and therapeutic group. The conditions for its implementation are linked to the impossibility of any indoor sports, so that the sport trainer Mafalda Suppa start studying how in the United States sport trainer practiced an activity called Urban Zone, since it is an outdoor activity that can also be carried out in the urban context - also found that the online lessons were not very successful (internet connection problems, poor motivation, etc.). The peculiarity of this experience is the opening of the gyms training to the urban or natural outdoor space, through wireless headphones (so people can respect the 2 mt. social distancing implied in the prevention measures for Covid-19) in which to hear music and the trainer instruction. The participant were almost women, for whom this experience has represented a way to go out of their houses for a while, to train, to listen to music, to sing, to dance and sometimes also to talk a little with other women in the same conditions. Then, the group has been also therapeutic for it gave to many women the possibility to share a difficult condition together.