Paying to work out always strikes me as odd - especially when people drive to the gym to use treadmills. Not my thing at all!
But I like this:
"Clinefelter's other vision for the future: he says he plans to hook up the club's television sets to the human-generation system. If you want to watch TV while working on the stationary bike or the Stairmaster - you are just going to have to pump harder."
A bit of incentive to exercise harder - makes sense from a motivational point of view. It also reminds me of an article I saw years ago (early 80s?) in an Australian newspaper, about a father who hooked up the family TV to a stationary-bike-powered generator. The main idea there, though, was to discourage excessive TV watching - the kids had to really want to watch the program.
Working out to run a TV
Paying to work out always strikes me as odd - especially when people drive to the gym to use treadmills. Not my thing at all!
But I like this:
"Clinefelter's other vision for the future: he says he plans to hook up the club's television sets to the human-generation system. If you want to watch TV while working on the stationary bike or the Stairmaster - you are just going to have to pump harder."
A bit of incentive to exercise harder - makes sense from a motivational point of view. It also reminds me of an article I saw years ago (early 80s?) in an Australian newspaper, about a father who hooked up the family TV to a stationary-bike-powered generator. The main idea there, though, was to discourage excessive TV watching - the kids had to really want to watch the program.
-- Chriswaterguy (wiki homepage)