…cause I’m too lazy.
I’ve spent the last couple of days playing with data sets. It led to some interesting observations about myself. At least, interesting to me.
I’m lazy. Really lazy. They say that lazy programmers are the best, because they constantly try to automate tasks – making them more productive. But there has got to be a threshold. Cause I think I’m so lazy, that I don’t even get around to the task that should be automated, making me not even care about automating it…which I think in the end, is less productive.
Yeah – so I’m tired of these data sets, yet when I deal with them, they’re really not that bad (even manually)…so I think I shouldn’t be so lazy since it’s never as hard as one thinks it is and it is also rewarding to actually do stuff.
Still, I don’t think I’m going to get over the hump on my ROM machine task. The ROM machine is a work out machine (pictured above) that will give you a good day’s workout in only 4 minutes. A great device. It just costs 14k.
4 minutes. But $14,615. Still, only 4 minutes. Yeah, but it’s $14,615. This conversation has gone on for years in my head. The price hasn’t gone down much either. To be fair, the 4 minutes has been pretty constant too.
I got the video a while back. Catherine, Kevin and I watched it. It was a pretty cheesey infomercial but there are all sorts of moving parts and flywheels and resistance is going on both ways…it looked like a lot of work. It is a combination rowing machine and stairmaster type thing. And if you keep it up for 4 minutes, well, it seems like you’d be winded.
ROM stands for range of motion. Their big pitch is that you’re using more of your muscles on this machine so you’re getting a more complete work out and that’ll burn more calories through the rest of the day, than you get doing an exercise with a smaller range of motion. I’d buy that. But at 14k, it seems a bit risky.
So – it seems, that if this works, one could just make a killing by creating the “gym for busy people”. Maybe you need a better acronym. But not much more.
You just need 4-5 ROMs and a set of showers. Let people book in 15 minute intervals and they’ll get their day’s workout in 4 minutes, with 11 minutes for relaxing and cleaning up. As business picks up, the pre-work, lunchtime and post-work time slots could get more expensive. Basically, you’re renting out the ROMs, while able to sneak in your own 4 minutes every day too inbetween sets. Win-Win situation.
Anyway – when you make one of these gyms, let me know. I want to try out that ROM. Maybe you’ll comp me a membership, cause it was my idea?
My other idea will come up later, when I’ve worked more of these data sets over…