Gym Library

For many people gymnasiums are a part of normal life. This means that you spend a lot of time using up energy to satisfy guilt for eating. (Others may have other reasons, I really don't know). However most, if not all gym equipment involves you staying in roughly the same place, with little to do but to concentrate on working out.

The gym library would allow the patron to select a book to read while exercising. All equipment would have a stand for reading located at an easy to see and reach place. The stand would be much like a music stand, but would be attached to the equipment itself. As few pieces of equipment need the use of both hands at all times, it wouldn't be a problem to occasionally change the page.

This wouldn't work when benchpressing weights because of the angle at which one lies but I can't think of any other pieces of gym equipment it wouldn't work for.

I am also debating whether you would be able to borrow a book from the library if you liked it, or if you would have to return it at the end of your work-out, as an incentive to return often.