Weird and Wacky Keep Fit Gadgets

11:01 AM Posted by Deepak

Although deep down all of us know that the only way to lose weight, get fit and most importantly keep the weight off is to eat less and increase our activity levels. But many of us are intrinsically lazy, and there is a huge market for gadgets and gizmos which promise to help us keep fit with the minimum of effort on our part. Many of these items will turn up regularly at car boot sales or second hand shops, but what are the strangest keep fit ideas out there?

Ropeless Skipping Rope

Skipping is not just a popular playground game, it’s one of the best ways to get a cardio-vascular workout when time is limited and you only have a small space to exercise in. A new product on the market, called Jump Snap, has taken the rope out of the equation by providing users with two handles only. Skip and jump as usual, but without the need to worry about tripping over the rope. The device does monitor the number of jumps and calories burned, but quite why anyone would spend £20 when you can get a skipping rope for less than a pound is a complete mystery.

Rocking Horse

Riding is a great way to keep fit, as galloping through the countryside on the back of a horse tones up muscles and provides a whole body work out. In 2008 a riding simulator costing upwards of £40,000 was launched on the market, with the aim of providing people who live in the city centre and have busy lives with a true to reality riding experience. Users sit on the back of a mechanical horse which is linked up to a computer monitor. A horse riding helmet is optional. Riders can practice the different forms of riding, or even train in the art of dressage. The company manufacturing the simulator also states that even though users may feel they have to go out and buy a horse riding helmet and other clothing to feel the part, they will not have to shell out for stabling fees, insurance or food for their “horse”.

Hawaii Hula Chair

We’ve all seen the image of the beautiful Hawaiian woman with the slender figure, and one American company is cashing in on this image by marketing a Hawaii Hula Chair, which promises to bring you that slender figure with very little effort. Users sit on the chair and then rotate their hips in a circular motion, as if they were using a hula hoop. The gadget claims to tone up stomach and abdominal muscles and burn fat too. If that wasn’t argument enough to rush out and buy one now, they also claim it will improve your circulation and cure your hemorrhoids. As with the other gadgets, the Hula Chair isn’t cheap at around £150, and when you can get a plastic hula hoop for a fraction of that, it is difficult to see just what the benefits are.

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