If you thought that going to the gym allowed you to burn off that stress and get away from the office, think again. A new hi-tech gym means you can type away on a keyboard and do an aerobic workout at the same time. Not quite sure this is going to work when it comes to pumping the weights, though.
|
|||||
|
We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people. Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house] Authors
Arts, Tech & CultureCivil LibertiesCommentary
EconomicsSamizdatistas |
8 comments to Keeping fit at the keyboard |
Who Are We?The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling. We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe. CategoriesArchivesFeed This PageLink Icons   |
|||
All content on this website (including text, photographs, audio files, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License. |
|||||
All that depends upon the exercise regime you are on, the equipment you are using, and how rigorously you use it. Try typing while using a Concept II rower (impossible), typing while using a crosstrainer (almost impossible), treadmill (pretty much impossible) or just about any weights machinery. I’d guess the only way you can use that is on the bike or, as illustrated in the CNN article, on a step machine.
Then again if you offset how much weight you want to lose against the level of workout you want to do at the gym, then I guess you can easily work more while exercising less.
Yes Julian, but most rowers have played the piano whilst on a Concept II rowing machine. It’s a standard rowers exercise on the recovery – in order to relax your grip, you imagine you are playing the piano with your fingers (any tune will do!).
Can’t understand this boredom thing during exercise. It hurts too much to be boring the way I do it.
Jay Leno made fun of this last night on the Tonight Show. It is a pretty ridiculous concept and it really just shows that America is fat and lazy and only wants convience.
I think it was Bill Bryson who observed that Americans are so addicted to convenience that they will go to almost any inconvenience to get it.
My office (and some of its inhabitants) smells bad enough as it is without everyone sweating away on excercise equipment.
Well Rob, apropos Mr Pollard’s rant against the smell of cigarette smoke in an earlier post, perhaps your office could be persuaded to take up smoking en masse?
I have actually had good results keeping from turning into utter jello by doing Maxalding at the keyboard at work. It’s not a true workout, but enough to keep away the “I’ve been sitting too long” glakh…
“Can’t understand this boredom thing during exercise.”
I concur in the strongest possible terms! I never get bored during exercise. Even running is fine for me – It’s often about the only chance I get to daydream and think about interesting distractions. People who get bored exercising must have no ‘internal’ world of thoughts and ideas. How obvious and uninteresting life must be like that…