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Can Fitness Gadgets Help You Build Muscle and Lose Weight?
Losing weight and staying fit is a goal for many. New technologies are always coming along to help us with our goals. With so many fitness gadgets on the market, the big question becomes which are good (because they can actually help you build muscle and lose weight), which are bad, and which are just plain crazy. Let's have a look at a few fitness gadgets these from each category.
The Good
The good can help you build muscle or lose weight. Some can even do both, depending on the gadget.
Nintendo Wii - If you though the Nintendo Wii gaming console was just another game machine you'd be wrong. This revolutionary game console offers some terrific fitness programs, including Cardio Boxing, Wii Fit, and Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum to name just a few. Yoga, Pilates, cardio, strength training, and sports are all just a disc away in your home. Many a couch potato has become a fitness buff since the Nintendo Wii.
Walk Vest - If you haven't heard of the walk vest, it's a heavy black vest that comes with eight pounds of weight up to sixteen pounds in the biggest vest. You increase the weight of the vest by placing weights in the pockets. It also includes a workout CD. It may not be pretty but it definitely makes your walk more effective.
IPod Shuffle - If you don't consider the iPod shuffle a fitness gadget you'd be wrong. It's a great way to take your mind off your taxing workout and keep you pushing on. After all listening to your favorite music can be energizing in itself.
The Ab Wheel - The ab wheel has you grab the handles located on each side and then you roll it along the floor as you stretch out. It's a simple idea. Whether there's any real value is debatable since the same benefit could be enjoyed from a crunch, but it may get a beginner going who might otherwise not get a great ab workout.
The Bad
While they may work, they just seem like a bad idea all around.
The Fitness Cube - The sales pitch is around how it will transform your body and take up little space in your home. It can be used as a chair, and hides a variety of accessories. Whether it's got any real value appears to be a negative, although the infomercial is pretty funny.
The Perfect Pushup - If you thought the pushup was above being improved, you'd be wrong. The perfect pushup is a device with rubber bottoms and swivel handled mounts. The grip rotation lets you take your pushup to a new level. The question is whether there's any real fitness value and the answer is no.
The Crazy
What fun would it be if we didn't mention a couple of the crazy fitness ideas that have come to be.
iGallop - The iGallop is designed to simulate a horseback ride, working the thighs, lower back, and abdomen. That said Pilates are a much better workout.
Shake Weight - The object to Shake Weight is to have inertia tighten and tone your arms using vibration. Whether it works or not is really unknown but logic would say no. It is however one of the craziest devices we've seen.
There you have it. The good, the bad, and the crazy. It would seem that while fitness gadgets can certainly help build muscle and lose weight, they can also do nothing. Before wasting your money on something you won't use--or that will break the first time you try it--it's important to do some research. Read reviews online and follow your favorite health and fitness blogs. If you choose your fitness gadgets carefully, you might have a tool that can help you reach your goals; if you don't choose carefully, you'll just end up with more clutter that will end up in the garage.
About the Author
If you like to read about fitness and sports gadgets, check out the author's blog. Daily posts highlight the good, the bad, and the crazy (hey, we have to be able to find entertainment in the workout world, right?).
Crazy Patents: Inventions That Never Made it
The patent office is bursting with documents depicting bizarre contraptions that were devised by mad professors and bedroom boffins - but the vast majority of them never even get to prototype stage, let alone reach the mass market - and for good reason.
Inventors are so worried that someone else may copy their creation and then reap the rewards that they will pretty much patent anything, for fear of losing out on potential millions; as a result, there are some very odd inventions that get patented.
Take the 'Burp Gas Filtering and Deodorising Device'; an pen sized invention through which the user burps, and the burp gas then gets de-odorised via a charcoal filter, eliminating any awkward moments at the dinner table. Needless to say - the inventor of this device is still waiting to get a manufacturing deal.
Or how about the 'Hijacker Injector' invention designed to combat the modern terrorist threat? The concept is that every passenger seat on a plane would be fitted with 'passenger disabling apparatus' that is mounted in and under the seat. The disabling apparatus is comprised of a seat belt buckle lock (which would hold the suspected hijacker in place - as long as they are wearing their seat belt) and hypodermic needle injection apparatus that would 'instantly sedate or kill the passenger'. This would be operated remotely by the pilot or a crew member. Though we are seeing aeroplane seats get more advanced with the addition of TV-on-demand, interactive gaming systems and built-in phones, we're yet to see the lethal injection add-on as standard - and let's hope it stays that way.
If you have a problem with excess bird droppings, then perhaps the 'Sanitary Appliance for Birds', could be the answer. Patented in 1959 this avian nappy is attached to a bird via a leather thong, which would presumably be emptied on a regular basis and then replaced. The target market for this product was never made clear; a pet budgerigar? Or maybe a battery hen or wild pigeon? The fact that bird droppings are still raining from the skies suggests this item never went into production.
Entrepreneurialism and inventiveness are encouraged by most governments around the world - after all, successful ideas lead to the creation of jobs, wealth and prestige, and this means that for the foreseeable future at least, creative minds throughout the UK, (from bedrooms in Birmingham, to serviced offices in London and desks in Durham) will be alive with the sound of inventors brainstorming ideas for the next big thing.
About the Author
Andrew Regan is an online, freelance author from Scotland. He is a keen rugby player and enjoys travelling.
