Home Gyms Dormant Equipment
When last did you do an inventory of your home gym to see what items you have not used in the last two years? Being health conscious is a must, to nurse the old heart, battered and bruised from all kinds of chemical liquids, nicotine and manufactured food we heap on it.
When we work out at the gym we forget that the desire to keep fit has a twin sister: the multi-billion industry that makes barbells, bikes and everything we use at the gym. As you know, ‘industry’ means the ability to produce, produce and produce non-stop.
That is why there are always new products on the market and online ads make us believe that the new stationary bike is better that the two we have at home. I enjoy the ads, seeing all those razor thin people biking furiously, rushing to nowhere.
It would be interesting to hear how gyms decide to acquire 12 new state-of-the-art treadmills. Is it because they are more digital than present ones or because the manufacturer gives them a huge discount, for providing a perfect advertising space? We’ll think of that product when we ‘upgrade’ home gyms.
Keep moving. Doctors recommend it, but trying to keep up with all the products the fitness industry manufactures is a recipe for bankruptcy and another heavy stone on the environment.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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