All Entries Tagged With: "exercise"

Ciclotte Exercise Machine That Won’t Destroy Your Room’s Aesthetics

Want an exercise machine that’s prettier than most of your decorative home pieces?  Get your cardio without ruining your décor with the Ciclotte, a refreshingly elegant-looking stationary bicycle that could easily pass off as a modern art sculpture.
First shown off months ago as a proof of concept, the stylish exercise bike from designer Luca Schieppati is now available for discerning fitness buffs.  Minimalist in make and extremely modern in operation, it easily offers the best option for living room or in-office exercising, giving you all of the calorie-burning benefits and none of the eyesore.

The Ciclotte is made from steel, carbon and glass fiber materials that combine into a sleek and original monowheel form.  Plop your crotch on the saddle and begin pushing the pedals to get the dual satellite epicycloid system going.  If that sounds scary, don’t worry – it’s just an unusual set of gears that spins the magnetized [...]

Treadmill Bike Puts Your Jogging Machine On Wheels

As functional as it might have been, last year’s Rollator was admittedly a quirky idea implemented with a lack of polish. The Treadmill Bike, which works much the same way, brings a little more style to go with your part-exercise, part-personal transport machine.
The name says it all: it’s a a bike that’s also a treadmill. Instead of pedaling to put the wheels into motion, you run on the treadmill tracks to get it moving. Yes, just like jogging, except you burden yourself with a large bike that you’ll have to find a place to park.   Insert facepalm here.

Why not just jog instead of taking this thing out? We’re not really sure. Creator Bicycle Forest doesn’t list any speed benefits, but we’ll just assume it will help you get from your house to the corner grocery marginally faster without exerting as much effort compared to making a run for it.
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Bandai Pedometer Includes A Samurai Adventure To Encourage Gamers To Exercise

If you can only do one of two things today, which one would you rather engage in, a jog around the park or a handheld video game?   Count me in for the video game crowd – all while downing some chips and a soda at that.  For folks like us, Bandai is hoping they have a solution – a pedometer/calorie counter that integrates a game with your calorie burning.
Who are we kidding?  A pedometer that uses the distances we travel as input for an integrated game won’t exactly make us want to exercise.  Unless the game is good and has a compelling storyline, that is.  Now, does it?
According to the press release (which I don’t understand since it’s in Japanese), the pedometer casts the lazy exerciser as a 16th century Samurai with his eyes intent on taking control of Japan.  You can choose any of three famous daimyo characters [...]

The Avatar of Exercise

If you are the type that strives to be in shape but find it hard to achieve results, you need to hear about this.
Perhaps you want to slim down. Perhaps you want to bulk up. Or perhaps you want to maintain your current state of physical well-being. But now that you’ve started working out, you see few results. This is because many people exercise, but few do so with the right form. Any exercise without the proper form can at best leave you as weak as you started, despite a regular workout that leaves others with consistent results. At worst, not using the proper form can cause painful damage to your body.

But if we are so dedicated to exercise, how do we then ensure proper form? Books may offer images, but they can only give so much instruction because, at the end of the day, it’s based on your own [...]