With a human powered treadmill or exercise bike, a person in decent shape can burn about 400 calories an hour and generate about 100 watts of electricity. Lance Armstrong's numbers would be closer to 1400 calories and 350 watts!
Wheels spin and belts turn, Sweat drips and legs burn, Calories becoming electricity, Gyms powered by you and me!
Burn Calories Not Oil
From Hong Kong's California Fitness to Australia's Surry Hills Boxing Gym, human-powered gyms or sustainable gyms are gaining momentum worldwide. With the inception of energy harnessing treadmills and exercise bikes, gyms have been given the amazing ability to turn energy expended by their members into useable watts of electricity.
The Human Dynamo is a revolutionary exercise bike that creates energy by utilizing the rotary motions of both your arms and legs to spin a flywheel attached to a generator.
Woodway's EcoMill is a manually powered treadmill that requires no electricity, only the exerciser's movement to re-charge its batteries.
The Green Microgym in Portland, Oregon is the first gym to install Human Dynamo machines and is setting the pace for other U.S. fitness clubs looking to harness their patron's power.
Check It Out
ReRev is a company that retrofits existing gym equipment to convert human energy into a usable form of renewable energy.
The Green Revolution, Inc. is a company that provides both eco-consulting services and human powered aerobic machines for gyms and fitness clubs.
