Finding humor in exercise... or, at least, in the gadgets!

Canada
January 22, 2007 10:17am CST
'Round about this time in January, you can hear the audible clatter of New Year's resolutions falling by the wayside... or "WEIGH-side" if we're talking about diet and exercise. My question today is about exercise "gadgets." We see them everywhere... on infomercials, in department stores, we even eyeball them in OTHER people's homes and wonder if we should be using them too! What's the most useless exercise gadget or piece of equipment you've purchased? What made you buy it? The advertising? The promises of miracle results? The guilt of feeling that you needed to do "something," rather than just sitting on the couch with the Cheez-Doodles watching OTHER people exercise on the commercials? LOL Or, like many people I know, were you lacking in closet space and thought a treadmill would make a grand place to hang your extra laundry? Keeping up a healthy lifestyle isn't an easy task for a majority of us so please share your funny stories and we'll know we're not alone! ;)
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@BittyBiddy (2903)
• Ireland
22 Jan 07
The most useless gadget I've ever bought had to be the "Gut-Buster". When I look back at it I must have been so daft. I suppose it was like an elasticated rowing machine that hooked around your legs. Within a month i'd forgotten about it and abandoned it under my stairs.
• Canada
22 Jan 07
OH! I know the one you mean! We didn't have that one but, when I still lived with my parents, my dad bought this rope and pulley contraption that you hooked over a doorknob. Then, you laid on the floor and it basically "assisted" you with doing leg lifts. It was a very undignified thing, at the best of times and, at the very least, you looked rather like a puppet! LOL
• Philippines
22 Jan 07
lol.. you know what we have this lots of gadgets my mom is so fun of buying this stuff. then just this friday i heard one kid from our neigborhood said a joke. "wow! this almost look like a gym... but the problem is whose gonna use it?
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• Canada
22 Jan 07
LOL! I know people like that... they have a great set-up and it gathers dust because no one is using it. Such a shame really!