Fitness - Power - Balance
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Concept
Fitness is our natural power - the source of our strength, endurance, speed and mobility. Self-control and willpower are the mental attributes to our fitness and vital for accessing our physical power in effective and efficient ways. Any fitness attribute can be trained through regular exposure to challenging work-tasks and the goal of fitness training is to obtain a performant and well-balanced set of fitness attributes. Why? Because a trained mind and body can get us places an untrained one would never dare to go, and in the end, those are the places worth discovering and remembering.
Humanity’s biggest problem Almost everything created by nature does its best to adapt to its environment. However, there seems to be one thing eager to disrupt this natural balance and that is our powerful mind - humanity’s biggest gift and biggest curse at the same time. It all started ages ago, when humans decided to cut down trees to get to the fruits instead of climbing them, choosing short-lived comforts over sustainability. Today we find ourselves trapped within our own systems, where cutting corners and striving for comforts on nature’s expense has become the norm for society. There isn’t even a feasible or respected option for a self-supporting life-style anymore. We only get to consume, which of course increasingly leads to environmental destruction and a depressing life-style. But there is a way to change that.
Fixing our mindset In theory, the solution to our problem seems simple: We just need to change our mindset and stop choosing comforts over sustainability. First, we have to realize that happiness in life naturally comes in waves, meaning that without a hardship there cannot be a feeling of relief, a feeling of success, a feeling of happiness and joy. That’s why a meal after a day of hard work tastes so much better and why instant gratification leads to depression. Continuously getting happier is just not possible within the balance of nature. So in order to avoid a deep emotional downfall, we should ground ourselves regularly by taking a little step outside of our comfort-zone into a healthy hardship. And once we’ve learned this lesson, hardships will feel less painful and more like a beneficial way of life and a passion. A workout for example can feel painful, but as soon as we finish the workout, there instantly is a wave of good feelings simply because the pain stops and we’ve done something good for our health. So good hardships are like a tool to stay balanced, happy and fulfilled.
Fixing modern society This Workout-Power-Station is great, because we can train all aspects of fitness with it – strength, endurance, speed, willpower, flexibility, coordination, strategy, ... . But we could also achieve that by simply climbing trees, or by just working with our bodyweight in various ways. However, this Workout-Power-Station isn’t just a fitness-machine. It’s also the key to a self-supporting life-style within our modern society, because it allows us to transform healthy workout-power into something that modern society desperately needs - clean energy. There are parts of modern society that we all enjoy, like having machines that take uncomfortable and unhealthy work-tasks off our shoulders. And of course we are humans, not apes. We don’t want to climb trees all day long. We love individualism, variety, culture, new ideas and the ability to express ourselves in different ways. But in order to become more sustainable, we have to start carrying ourselves through life. And that doesn’t have to feel like a hardship, if we contribute some clean and healthy workout-power to do so. Because there is certainly no energy more sustainable and healthy for the planet and ourselves, than our own. So why not give humanity a chance by giving them a healthy and beneficial way to contribute their workout-power?
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Mission
Fitness - Power - Balance The goal of this enterprise is to provide fair access to a self-supporting way of life within our modern society. In fact, this option should be treated as a basic human right, as it serves our sustainability and our quality of life. The Workout-Power-Station offers the best compromise between versatility, usability, space-requirement and cost-efficiency. Everybody can find beneficial ways to work with this machine - from young to old, from thin to fat, from handicapped to crazyfit – this machine gives opportunity to work on one’s weaknesses and to capitalize on one’s strengths. Workout-power doesn’t discriminate - whether you are a hard worker, a heavy lifter, or a strong sprinter. Let’s all have a go and see what comes out! Let's start to re-balance ourselves and our modern society.
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Story
2013 - Idea of a Workout-Power-Station 2015 - First Prototype 2018 - Second Prototype 2020 - Third Prototype 2021 - Fourth Prototype 2022 - Fifth Prototype 2023 - Sixth and final Prototype