An amazing new technology that has the potential to harness the power generated while people exercise and convert it into energy has recently been unveiled by a company in Connecticut. Their aim is to produce electricity in a green and sustainable manner with no byproducts such as carbon emissions, and they plan to use an indoor cycling class in the gym to help them do it!
Indoor cycling or spinning classes are very popular in terms of Workout Equipment and can burn upwards of 600 cal per hour. Participants use special fixed bikes to work through an interval-based programme that simulates road riding — including increasing the resistance to simulate hills. Led by a qualified instructor and usually to a pounding rock soundtrack, a class normally lasts 45 minutes to one hour and certainly classes as intensive exercise which is low impact and does not put stress on joints.
The environmentally- friendly gym that intends to showcase this fitness technology based on human energy is Go Green Fitness, who intend to prove that a spinning class with upwards of 15 people in it can potentially produce more than 3.5 Megawatts of clean, green, environmentally friendly energy per year. This amount of power could run the lights from more than 70 homes for an entire month, while drastically reducing carbon emissions, so by attending one of these classes you can get fit and help the environment, all at the same time. The company behind this revolutionary idea also hope to raise participants’ awareness of the importance of going green in terms of making the planet a healthier place for our children.