The gym I go to has stationary bikes with TV screens build in them and handle bars that you actually use to steer. You can ride around a boring track or play the dragon coin game, the future of stationary biking. The bike has gears like a normal bike and it steers like a normal bike but you peddle around a small village collecting coins and dragons, unlike a normal bike. This is the closest I have ever come to having fun while exercising. I hate exercising.
Someone out there understood that biking can be rather boring so why not throw in a little game to pass the time, albeit not a sophisticated game but enough to peek my interest. It got me thinking, why do I dread going to this insufferable place to sweat my heart out day in, day out with no end in sight? Why can’t exercising be fun? And don’t just tell me Pilates is fun or that class my Mom goes to is “fun” exercise, no its not, not to me anyway.
The first computerized exercise bike was developed in the late 1960′s and since then all we’ve done is make the seats a bit Continue Reading
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