exercise bike
-
Background: It’s difficult to appreciate the amount of energy that is consumed by a citizen of a modern industrial economy. If we only consider household electricity, a “reasonable” amount of consumption (ignoring air conditioning or heating) can be more than 5 kilowatt-hours (~200 watts of average usage over a 24-hour period). A non-bicycling-enthusiast adult can…
-
The issue: Frequently, people buy exercise equipment but then don’t actually use it. Instead, barbells gather dust and exercise bikes are used as a supplementary clothing racks. Proposal: One effective way of encouraging a person to use their exercise equipment is to have the equipment physically block access to the owner’s bed (Figure 1). This…
-
The issue: Running on a treadmill can be quite unrewarding due to the repetitiveness and relatively long duration of most treadmill-based exercises. Fig 1: This treadmill needs to be jazzed up somehow. There are certain “gimmick”-based treadmills that connect to a monitor to give you the illusion of actually making progress toward a destination as…
WorstPlans: updated every Monday since July 2014! 
You must be logged in to post a comment.