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Technology by the name of Gadget Universe has come up with the device that is rumored to be a hot thing in Japan.
Everyone wants a killer midsection, right? Now it can be as simple as sitting on the Hula Chair. Simply plant your feet on the ground, sit up straight, pull in your abs and press the button. The chair will start swirling, making your body twist in a sexy motion, similar to the ones you did hula-hooping as a kid. It looks pretty sexual though, so you might not want to do this when you have company over… or maybe you would! You can get it here from Amazon.com.
The owner said that Hula chair combines the best of ancient traditional Chinese medicine with 21st century space-age technology to fine tune your balance and coordination by aligning your spine and improves blood circulation. You can sit on your hula chair in front of TV playing Xbox for hours and get your abdominal trained during the process. By training the abdominal, fat around that area is expected to break and turns into muscle.
Best of all, it does not require any complicated instructions. Just hop on, set the speed and roll on. You can combine this with a piece of Latin music so that you can groove better. This is just like a regular hula hoop but transformed into a chair and armed with technology.
See a funny video about it below.
I don’t get it. Do you get the work out from trying to keep your feet planted? I just don’t see how it strengthens your thighs if they aren’t actually moving the seat. However, I do like that the company is thinking outside the box and trying to incorporate two things that don’t usually go together: Exercise and relaxation.
Watch the video. You keep your feet planted, and the seat moves and rotates.
I don’t know about sitting and playing xbox or even relaxing while being on that thing. I feel like someone could get motion sick on that thing and I would be the one to do it because circular and sometimes oscillating motions will get me motion sick. Aside from those people who could get motion sickness, I can’t see someone sitting on that thing and relaxing; that thing is moving around a lot. It is a much easier way to exercise though seeing as the machine does it for you.
I agree with Alex when it comes to playing xbox and rotating on the chair, I would definately get motion sickness. Also this reminds me of numerous other inventions such as the belt that goes around the stomach and every time you release your abs it vibrates until you strengthen your abs again. It was supposed to help you loose inches off your waist and strengthen the abs. I dont think these inventions are the best way to loose weight and I’m not sure if I totally believe them. I am a major supporter of tradition workouts such as strength training and cardio. This chair may help you trim down and be skinny but I’m not sure if it helps actually get you in shape.
this reminds me of something else that i saw back home in d.c. that was being sold by brookstone. here’s the link.
http://www.brookstone.com/store/product.asp?product_code=531707&wid=17&cid=1701&sid=170102&search_type=subcategory&prodtemp=t2
I feel as if these are people coming up with ideas that people come up with to try and get to the people who want to exercise but are too lazy to go to the gym. What better way to get in shape than by just sitting down and letting the chair do all the work? It may work if you stay completely devoted to doing it every day or something, but i still have my reserves.
Ha, i like the comic!
and why are you working on the weekends?
and why are there Hello Dolly lyrics on the update profile page?
This contraption seems to propagate the spurious notion of targeted fat loss. Ergo, if you want to see your abs, raise your resting metabolic rate.
That video was a lame advertisment, but I think people will like this because its not a real workout and so that might entice lazy people.
Re Timstown: “cheap” answer is entrepreneurs never take a day off; thus a 24/7 blog for those of you who aspire. Re Tim Watson: I added a Wordpress addin that randomly posts excerpts from Hello Dolly “just because I could.” No reason, except, “why not?” For comic lovers/likers, more to come.
The company has found a great way to target the public. So many people want to lose weight or tone up their midsection but don’t want to have to actually go and work out to get it there. It is sort of like those packs that you put on your abs and they vibrate to give you a tighter midsection. Although those devices aren’t heard of too much any more they made some money before they disappeared. This chair seems like a smart innovation and seems to target the public in a good way.
There are tons of ideas for ab workout machines and I’m not so sure that the hula chair is so much better than anything else. Also, with the amount of technology it is probably more expensive than most of the products out on the market right now limiting potential sales. A little running and some sit-ups do the same thing too and with a society becoming more health conscience, I don’t think this product would ever really last.
As a personal training major this product obviously falls into the category
of quackery. “By training the abdominal, fat around that area is expected
to break and turns into muscle” is not only dumb but impossible. Fat can
not turn into muscle. There are hundreds of this product in various forms
floating around. Tune into cable television anytime after 1 A.M. (infomercials)
i could use one of these in my room!! it would help me fight those freshman 15, while remaining lazy like all teenagers should be
SEX SELLS! haha, I think this could be a great product because of the fact that they say you can use it while doing other things. Other ab machines require you to be lying down and focusing on working out your abs which can be pretty boring. But, with this machine you can be “playing xbox for hours” or working on other things while working your midsection at the same time. It would be interesting to see how it would sell here if advertised more heavily.
Yet another weight loss machine that is designed for lazy people.This is the same concept as one infomercial that i saw not too long ago about a belt that was supposed to get your abs ripped. It was supposedly discrete and you could wear it anytime, even at work. Joey was right when he stated that this is basically bs. I’d sell it if there was interest, but I’d just have somebody else market it.
Ok, so the first thing that caught my eye is that it was first a hot thing in Japan. Now I’m thinking, what the hell! what makes Japan be the place where they are setting new trends or coming up with innovative ideas? My first thoughts were that maybe Japan focuses in more on the Target Markets of the population. Maybe they have a more entrepreneurial mindset on what the people want. Whatever the case be, this hula chair idea is yet another piece of equipment people will buy, because everyone wants to have those sexy abs.
Lets face it, the obesity rate in America is going up. Usually it is the cause
of over eating or pure laziness. These obscure “at home” work out machines are
focused on the people who would rather play xbox for 5 hours than go to the gym.
These machines and diet pills sell themselves by saying that they help people lose
weight fast with out changing their diets or life styles. I’m thinking the next time
we see this product is at 2am on an infomercial or on the last page on a gossip magazine.
This is a crazy idea….. and just how would continued use on this thing treat a person’s spine. And as for playin xbox on this thing forget motion sickness, gl on just focusin tha game.
THis like every other get slim quick scheme can potentially make millions with a third of the american population over weight. Everyone wants to be slim but no one wants to work out because of the time that it takes and the efort for that matter. This is a great development that can be marketed to the lazy population, which is a vast market. This give the core workout an easy appearance that consumers will love. I would invest in this product and even do a video on it that can be played late night right after the Chuck Noris infomercial about some other random workout machine. I am jumping on the band wagon, since I regret not jumping on the TAE BO multimillion dollar wagon.
People are lazy…not saying I’m not one of them but if you want to have some abs then work out not sit there on a moving chair. I personally wouldn’t want anyone to see me actually using one of those things, sure you may have a nice stomach afterwards but it doesn’t look the like the most comfortable way to exercise. It is an innovative idea but i don’t think this will actually sell other than during those late night infomercials.
This product is targeted for our overweight, lazy population who want to get thin quick without actually making an effort. If they really cared, they would just go to a gym like a normal person, and work out all of their muscles, not just the ones this crazy chair decides they need to use so they won’t fall off.
I am reminded of those electronic ab shockers and other gimmicks. However, people really do want to lose weight, they just don’t have the will power to go to the gym three days a week. They know this. However, they might be convinced that they would use this and it will help get them in shape. I don’t think that they will actually use it, but they will buy it.
Wow! Just when I thought I have seen it all. This product has its ups and downs. Yea it helps you physically but i honesty dont think one could talk sitting in that chair for too long with out getting sick to the stomach. But hey thats just me. I must admit though it is a creative idea and if it launches and becomes successful I would be at some what of a shock.
Just when you thought that innovation had reached its peak, they come out with something like this. I don’t think that machine doesn’t work, I just have doubts that someone would seriously buy a machine like this just to get a core and innerthigh workout. I think this product didn’t take into consideration the human thinking process when they created this. I don’t think that this product has real value simply because I don’t think it does enough for the feeling of retardation that it gives someone. Maybe a little more research should have been done here.
alls i can say is the fitness and dieting market is huge in the U.S. and i could see a lot of fat people going for this simple solution(if it works) i mean hell they’re always setting anyways, why not hula.