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With obesity afflicting millions the Home, Sweat Home is a new standard in residential housing design:
Features of this energy-efficient design for the fitness fanatic include:
Optional, fixed, closed windows
Permanent heating ranging from 30 to 38degC or, if you want, -5degC, designed
to force you to burn a lot of energy either way.
Many devices powered by human mechanical energy
Humidity set to 95% if it's hot, or cold, to ensure heat loss drives metabolic output
Treadmill Staircase [link]
Self-powered Shower [link]
Pedal-O-Vision Home Entertainment Centre [link]
Fit For Life Kitchen [link]
Not for the faint of heart, Home, Sweat Home is negotiating with a number of elite athletes to provide residence modifications.
Fit For Life Kitchen
Fit_20For_20Life_20Kitchen
[UnaBubba, Jan 02 2008]
Treadmill Staircase
Treadmill_20Staircase
[UnaBubba, Jan 02 2008]
Pedal-O-Vision
Pedal-O-Vision_20Ho...ertainment_20Centre
[UnaBubba, Jan 02 2008]
Self-powered Shower
Self-powered_20Shower
[UnaBubba, Jan 02 2008]
Scylla & Charybdis Pool
Scylla_20_26_20Charybdis_20Pool
[UnaBubba, Jan 03 2008]
Heat exhaustion
http://www.cdc.gov/...wrhtml/00053616.htm
Some of your linked ideas have merit, but the constant heat and humidity of this particular idea is extremely dangerous. [theleopard, Jan 03 2008]
Trapeze, Shower Bath, Punching Bag Feature Gym Bed
http://blog.modernm...ag-feature-gym-bed/
The bed is a “four-poster” with an awning top. Parallel bars are set between the end posts, and they are removable to be used across the top of the bed as trapezes. A punching bag-hook hangs from the top for arm and torso exercise; using a suspended swing as a seat, a small portable pedaling device furnishes exercise for the legs. [skinflaps, Jan 24 2008]
Real Life people who actually live that way...
http://www.pathtofreedom.com
and there are other good reasons to do it as they will explain. [James Newton, Sep 18 2008]
Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee
Destination URL.
E.g., http://www.coffee.com/
Description (displayed with the short name and URL.)
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I think this series of ideas is just going to
kill a lot of people, which is the opposite
of fit and healthy, ie, dead. |
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Yep, Julie over at number 3 was dead fit. |
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Reminds me of Bikram Yoga. Actually, it's more Bikram Karma Yoga. |
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I don't like the idea of this being a "new standard in residential housing design" - it would discriminate against those of us who aren't lazy lard-arses. |
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... and incarcerate those of us that are... |
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...and kill elderly people, the obese, high blood-pressure sufferers, disabled folk, injured folk, people allergic to exercise, osteogenesis imperfecta sufferers, people with really long hair, and all manner of household pets. |
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You don't have to live there, [tl]. You can stay in your current hovel if that's the lifestyle you choose. |
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You don't have to live in a death trap to keep fit either [UB]. And if it were between living in this uncomfortable sweaty nightmare of a home and living on the streets, I'll take my chances with a good sleeping bag and a cardboard box thank you very much. Luxurious! |
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Further on't, the basic concept of standardising the torture of obese people has a certain shade of advocacy to it, n'est pas? |
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I should know, I'm overweight and I fucking hate exercise. |
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This sentence should give you all the guidance you need, I would have thought?
//Features of this energy-efficient design for the fitness fanatic include:// |
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Oddly enough, it's in the original idea text, as posted. |
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Then how, pray tell, will it banish obesity? |
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On a case-by-case basis, as quickly as the user wishes to do so. I wasn't trying to save the world, just the vain and self-interested. |
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I don't knw about you, but I stink when I sweat. At even 30C, I could do nothing but sweat. Where will these people work? |
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// just the vain and self-interested // |
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I'm on holiday and it's pissing rain, day after day. What else can I do? Spend time with my family? Watch the Australian cricket team systematically destroy the Indian cricket team? |
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Oh, I know, I'll go back to being the loudmouthed pest I once was at the HB! |
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[QED], you don't live in the tropics, do you? |
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Yes, UB, you are a loudmouthed pest, but you're OUR loudmouthed pest and we wouldn't have it any other way! |
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BTW, have you set a new record for most ideas posted during a single vacation yet? |
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I do like this idea. Both environmentally friendly and fat busting. |
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Additional suggestion (please develop an post if suitable): |
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Like "Pooh Sticks", but for heroes. |
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In Pooh Sticks, you throw sticks into a stream and see which one finishes first. |
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In Pick Up Styx, the competitors throw sticks into the River Styx. They then have to run at top speed along the bank, dodging Cerberus, Charon the ferryman wanting his two-pennyworth, and various demons and other denizens of the Underworld. |
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The winner is the one who sucessfully retrieves his stick, and manages to return to the world of the living (Hint: Don't Look Back). |
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[theleopard], there are entire nations of people who live in climatic conditions similar to those specified, without too many of them dying of heat exhaustion. |
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//Australian cricket team systematically...// |
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...bully the umpire into handing them a couple of wickets.
"Howzzat!?!? I *said* HOWZZAT!" |
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They got the result with 9 minutes to spare on day 5. |
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One dodgy decision... went against Rahul Dravid. Two noises according to Snicko but not bat on ball. |
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// I wasn't trying to save the world, just the vain and self-interested // |
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I feel your frustration UB. My sister in law has been grossly obese for 25 years. Nothing she does on her own works. If we cut off her ac in the summer she'd sweat off 10 lbs or more. add to that a bicycle veggie chopper I think we'd have a plan. or not |
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//there are entire nations of people who live in climatic conditions similar to those specified, without too many of them dying of heat exhaustion.// |
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Sweating causes you to lose weight via dehydration. Too much dehydration = dead. |
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I have left the water connected in both bathroom and kitchen. Even people who are not used to the tropics know how to get themseles a drink of water from a tap, I presume. |
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Thirsty = drinking water = rehydration. |
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People take about 4 days to die if they don't consume any fluids. Very few people wait that long before deciding to have a drink if they are thirsty, as I understand it. |
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We have become so obsessed with personal comfort, airconditioning and our sedentary lifestyles that it's just coneivable Gaia has found a way to rid herself of us. |
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You'd burn more calories if your home was really cold. |
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Contrary to popular opinion, sweating does not burn calories. High humidity would just cause the overweight person's body to shut down rather than overheat. Certainly he would lose water, but she would have to drink again and gain back the same amount of water weight. He also would feel hungrier because of the need for salt. |
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I don't really care. I guess it comes down to whether you're really an indolent, fat, sweaty couch potato, or not. |
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Actually, sweating does use energy. Or so we were told in third year animal physiology. |
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Deep thinking burn much more calories than physical exercise, with more wonderful benefits too - but it would only be effective by far if coupled with physical exercise. In my case, I like to walk to and fro in a room just to wrestle out the glitches or perfection of my designs. It compels me to think deeper and thoroughly, firing me up to explore the seemingly insignificant aspects that vastly contribute then to the ultimate solution effective to the engineering feat at hand. |
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By the way, haven't we read Einstein used to row his boat just to formulate his theories? |
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