Whilst the energy producing gym won’t immediately solve the energy crisis, it does at least require its members to physically engage with the issue
Two great challenges facing western society are the looming energy crisis and the alarming increase in obesity. But if technology has developed to a point where we can efficiently trap kinetic energy, then could green gyms become little power stations burning human energy and sequentially running it into the grid?
As more health clubs install energy-producing exercise equipment it’s becoming a prospect that burns ever more brightly. The Club and Spa at Cadbury House, just south of Bristol, is one of Britain’s largest independent gyms with 4,000 members. It was the first health club in the world to install the Artis Renew range of sustainable exercise machines. Designed by the Italian company Technogym, they comprise bikes, resistance machines and cross trainers. For Horton this is a glimpse of a future that includes sustainable gyms powered by their users.
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