Dubai wants to be the most active city in the world

This weekend marked the half-way point of the inaugural Dubai Fitness Challenge which sees hundreds of thousands of participants from across the city commit to 30 minutes of any exercise for 30 days.

In a huge fitness event at the city’s world famous skydive centre, Skydive Dubai, participants took part in sunrise yoga on the spectacular setting of the runway and battled it out for fitness supremacy dressed as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Thor for Dubai’s first ever Superheroes Walkathon.

Citizens, residents and visitors to the city also had the chance to try a host of extreme, adventure and differently abled sports including BMX and parkour courses, a skate park, climbing wall, kayaking, paragliding, wheelchair rugby, boccia and sitting volleyball.