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A multi level gym with open central core .
Each piece of equipment has heavy balls of specific colour .
As the machines are used the balls are conveyed to the top level .
This transfer can be done by screws , escalators , cable lifts ( what has the most gee whiz factor )
At the core is a loverly
cascade of falling coloured balls
so one can watch all that hard work disappear .
Clever use of water , lights , and trampolines in controlled fall path could produce some exciting effects .
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Cool! Just to clarify: the work done by each machine goes to operate one of the lifting devices - so just to take one example, a rowing machine is attached to an archimedes screw, and the rower can watch his work being frittered away on lifting red balls up to the ceiling and then dropped. |
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Excellent. I think the opportunities for covert competition with the guy on the weights makes this idea perfect for gyms everywhere. |
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Pacino exercise -- "Okay, breathe down deep and flex those abs. Now, repeat after me, in your most menacing voice: 'SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!'" |
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"SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" |
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"SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!!" |
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"Much better. Now repeat that ten times, just like that, and then come meet me and we'll talk business." |
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[RayfordSteele], that's only one half of the Pacino exercise. The other half is firing a paintball gun from the hip while saying it (very stupid and hard). |
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Intresting. It seems very impressive. This isn't far-feched at all (people do many strange things to get fit). (+) |
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I was thinking the reward for the hard work was to watch your ball fall through a logic process (pachinco machine like) designed by
physics artists .
A path of water trough drops , hoop jumps off ramps , trampoline bounces , loop deloops , a chaos theory pathdivide , multipaths and billard collisions .
?? That guy that drew those pictures , you know ?? |
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Would this be the favorite machine at Goldberg's Gym? (Oooh I claim that one to bake). |
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