The 10 most ridiculous health and fitness gadgets

[bijou]

Health-and-fitness gadgets that promise to create a sexier, happier, you are often tempting, but soon after they’re unwrapped that promise evaporates and they end up stashed in the garage. A 2003 NOP poll says a quarter of home-fitness equipment is used only once and a tenth is never even unwrapped. When I invited nominations last month for the Landfill Prize (an award I dreamt up to name and shame the most resource-wasting products of 2007), home-gym gizmos featured highly. The iJoy Ride, below, was voted second in the judging. So here’s Body&Soul’s top examples of strange home-fitness folly. Do any of them lurk in your cupboards?

...2. Electric chair, anyone?
The only persuasive answer to the question, “why use a WalkStation?” is that it means you won’t have to sit on the Hawaii Chair instead. Its seat cushion is mounted on top of an electric motor and oscillates in a way that makes your hips hula all day. It looks absurdly uncomfortable, and at first I suspected it to be a brilliant satire on the wacky world of fitness. But it’s coming to a shopping channel near you. If you can’t wait, try typing “Hawaii Chair” into YouTube, and sing along to the infomercial’s ukulele tune: “If you can sit, you can get fit . . .”

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9. My kingdom for a horse

The iJoy Ride is an indoor horse-riding simulator that promises to tone and trim, and even claims gives to give the “proven medical benefits” of riding, including “increased lymph flow, which boosts the immune system and help remove harmful substances from the tissues which cause conditions like cellulite”. I can find nothing in any medical research journal to support this. And the £400 device bears a disturbing resemblance to a wobbling toilet on skis. Users say that the machine’s “pitching, rolling and yawing” motions make it look as if the “rider” is enjoying an experience more erotic than equine. (www.ijoyride.co.uk )

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Hilarious, I am not surprised that so many gadgets are unused.

[Carl]

I prefer doing bicep curls using a 12 oz. can of beer.

[Chris_]

I prefer doing bicep curls using a 12 oz. can of beer.

Of course you do.    

[Carl]

I prefer doing bicep curls using a 12 oz. can of beer.

Of course you do.    

[Chris_]

I prefer doing bicep curls using a 12 oz. can of beer.

Of course you do.    

 

[Carl]

I prefer doing bicep curls using a 12 oz. can of beer.

Of course you do.    

 

[Chris_]

I prefer doing bicep curls using a 12 oz. can of beer.

Of course you do.    

 

[Carl]

I prefer doing bicep curls using a 12 oz. can of beer.

Of course you do.    

 

[Dixie*Darling]

I prefer doing bicep curls using a 12 oz. can of beer.

Of course you do.    

 

finds the bottom of her glass of homemade strawberry wine (with a straw; screw extending the pinky finger)  FTW!

[arjelyn06]

Fitness gadgets really help us to lose weights and fats in our body. Using it requires more energy.  Physical activities also give people increased energy throughout the entire day. And how about using a 12 oz. can of beer?

[thundley4]

WTH?  A zombie thread?

[IassaFTots]

WTH?  A zombie thread?

Dude.  :clueless:

[Ralph Wiggum]

WTH?  A zombie thread?

Thread necrophilia!!!!

[THA HOUSTON PIMP IS IN DA HOUZ!]

what about these electric barbells that oscillate back in forth while you're holding them?   Supposed to work a woman's triceps and other arm muscles.

In the commercials, it looks like the women are ja....ing off a ................well, you know?

 

[cavegal]

what about these electric barbells that oscillate back in forth while you're holding them?   Supposed to work a woman's triceps and other arm muscles.

In the commercials, it looks like the women are ja....ing off a ................well, you know?

 

Yeah it is funny is it not? 

[THA HOUSTON PIMP IS IN DA HOUZ!]

Yeah it is funny is it not? 

Why buy the gadget when I can provide wimmins a "similar" opportunity for that type of exercise motion?