Lets face it working out means getting hot and sweaty or at least it should if you want to get decent fat burning results. At Home Exercise is tough because it’s just so easy to put it off.
Another great reason to go to the gym comes in strange guise energy generation. Some gyms are now installing exercise machines like bikes, cross trainers and treadmills that actually convert all your sweat and hard work into electricity.
The modified equipment have inbuilt generators that produce electricity as you use them and this can then then be put back into the grid to help reduce their overall power requirements.
The only downside is that the power produced is small about 50 Watts of power per hour of use by the average individual so one person isn’t going to power a kettle (2,000 Watts) for that you’d need at least 40 people puffing and panting like crazy.
However when you consider the price of one of these machines is about $1,200 they’re no more expensive than traditional gym quality equipment and they will help to lower a gyms carbon footprint and help to pay the electricity bills.
With the cost of energy spiraling out of control anything that helps reduce our consumption has got to be a good idea. Oil is at $120 a barrel at the moment and there seems no end in sight in energy costs. Sooner or later even the small amount of power generated by these exercise machines is going to be worthwhile.
Now I just need to persuade my husband to part with $1,200 and I can use it to power my IPod 
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