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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on June 29, 2010, 01:22:37 PM
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Ever feel like you’re surrounded by zombies with all the repetitive, boring exercise options available at the gym?
An exercise program
in Chicago takes the whole internet zombie fetishism thing a step further, with a more compelling twist on fitness than elliptical machines and treadmills. It’s marketed as a way to keep fit for a zombie apocalypse, and the Chicago Tribune spoke to the course’s creator Rich Gatz about the almost viral (ha!) popularity of the program:
And so, two nights a week in a gymnastics studio in St. Charles, five to a dozen people gather to run, jump, climb and vault up, over and around obstacles that stand in for the features of a city in the grip of a zombie infestation. They also undergo strength and conditioning training because zombies are relentless.
There are no actual zombies or zombie stand-ins, though Gatz says they are invoked for inspiration. A precision jump, for example, requires participants to land in an exact location, much as they would have to do if fleeing a zombie from rooftop to rooftop.
“You’ve got to land that, or the zombies are going to get you,†Gatz tells students.
Indeed. The program has a website where you can learn about the program more, and it expounds on the necessity of physical fitness if you don’t want to be zombie food: ...
http://www.inquisitr.com/77306/zombiefit/
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This sounds awesome :-)
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This sounds awesome :-)
It's essential training for the modern woman (and man).