I must admit, going to the gym is definitely not the highlight of my day but I get myself to go nonetheless. I was noticing that when I use the weight machines, I lose track of my rep count when Im really tired. In some instances, I was just cheating and wanted to go from 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10. Obviously if I had a trainer barking orders and counting for me, I wouldn’t skip a beat but sometimes its tough near the end of a workout. I was thinking that it would be a great if weight machines had digital counters for each rep and perhaps a timer for time in between sets (60secs or so). The counter would be really basic and would be linked to the weight stack each time it goes down.
My idea is pretty simple, but what about thinking bigger. The gym of the future…I imagine one day instead of people carrying around workout logs, they will touch their gym ID to a reader attached to the each machine (running, weights) and it will digitally record time spent, distance, reps, weights or anything regarding the workout. At the end of the day, week or month, you can print out a log of your progress.
For example, Wednesday showed you spent 45 mins at the gym and spent 10 mins running at a speed of 6.0MPH covering 1.2 miles and burning 120 cals. You used a bench press machine and did 4 sets of 10 at 90pds. You spent 18 mins resting during your workout.
You can see if you have been getting stronger, faster and use this as motivation for the future.
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plus it would be great for the environment!
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