While not a complete substitute for vigorous movement and exercise, the GymyGym Exercise Chair provides an opportunity for some much needed physical activity for the desk-chained knowledge workers of the world. Gizmag reports the user sits back on a stripped bungee seating system that’s said to mold itself to the shape and size of the […]
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Jennifer Hein and Brigette Polmar first became friends while working together on a weight-loss program. They soon found that they had similar problems. How could they find the time to work in some exercise? While laughing over a moment where exercise was combined with necessary activities, the two women found inspiration reports loudouni.com. Squeeze It
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According to The San Francisco Chronicle Jim Schutz tried everything to get lifelong friend Jeff Hagen to lose weight after Hagen hit 290 pounds and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He tried encouragement, shame, humor and anger. Nothing worked until he appealed to Hagen’s love of fantasy football. < blockquote>I realized that if I
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There is nothing quite as tough as trying to work off baby weight. It’s those few pounds that seem to just want to stick around forever. Nine years ago Kristen Horler found herself in a position where she didn’t want to drop her child off at daycare and go to work. So she started working
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Corey Butcher believes if you can’t beat’em, join’em. At least that is the approach he took with his gym businesses reports Reuters. Last year, Butcher brought all of his clubs under the umbrella of Gold’s Gym, a national franchise with some 520 U.S. locations. “The problem was you’re fighting against the dollars of LA Fitness,
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According to The Morning Sentinel, it’s easy to learn, fun, and extremely popular, say those who play pickleball. Say what? Yes, pickleball. You might call it a cross between badminton, pingpong and tennis. It’s played with a net, paddles and a ball with holes in it, similar to a Wiffle ball. The game, while developed
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According to The New York Times, Super Sized Cycles, manufactures and adapts bicycles for overweight riders who are too big for conventional bikes. The five-year-old business, which is based in Vermont, had sales last year of $104,000. The challenge Joan Denizot, the founder, has been agonizing over whether to manufacture bicycles in the United States
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Cambridge News: Kenneth Roy Sherhod, 80, has designed and built the tricycle, which is operated by pedals which move up and down rather than round and round, as on regular bicycles. The new tricycle is based on Archimedes’ principle of levers. Mr Sherhod built the Archimedes Lever Tricycle as a retirement hobby and rides it,
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TwinCities.com: When Bill Eggert takes his new invention out for a spin, it looks like an elliptical exercise machine that escaped from the health club and is rolling down the streets of St. Paul. That’s what the 48-year-old inventor has essentially created: an elliptical trainer with wheels. The St. Paul resident has had jobs ranging
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Yep, there’s an app for that! TweetCalories, is a novelty web app that shows you approximately how many calories you’ve burned over the last 24 hours by tweeting, reports Mashable.com. The app works by assuming several factors. For example, it’s figured that the average word length in a tweet is about 6 characters. It assumes
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