FF #2: Train better fitness
Martin Ødegaarden Henriksen is a friend, and a colleague (he works with Gro at Hyper Interaktiv), and he commutes everyday by train. His idea of how to combine train and training is the second to be featured on Feature Friday:
Being a copywriter, every now and than I get something I call “jackpot” – sentences. It can be described as a being textually satisfied, almost an orgasmic feeling, in a quite nerdy way. Very often these sentences have a double meaning. Like in this headline. Train better fitness.
My idea is based upon the fact that I spend a lot of my time on a train, combined with an heavily after-Christmas experience. I gained so much weight this season, that it was hard to walk five metres without breathing like a sperm whale. It felt like I had the lungs of a seventy year old Marlboro-sponsored ex-model, and I blamed it all on the eating that had been taking place during the celebration of the one and holy; Jesus Christ b-day. Or as we say in my New Age family – I Vishnu a merry Krishna.
As I´ve already told you – I often find myself sitting on the train. The ride between my home and work is a jolly-one-and-a-half-hour joyride, in one direction. That gives me a lot thinking space – something that is quite handy for a creative soul. Well. What happened this time was that my train bound life met my fear of turning fat –and gave me an instant idea that would solve two things.
A) Keeping my body (and mind) fit and healthy.
B) Making the trains even more energy saving and eco-friendly.
How to do it?
By turning one of the train compartments into a workout joint. This solves a whole lot of problems! First of all I would get a body like Arnold Schwarzenegger in a short matter of time. So would the other people that take the train every day as well. If the train was to stop because of an error, as it does from time to time, these new power passengers could help out in many different ways. By pushing the train if it stops. By running to fix problems with signals on a far away distance. By lifting the heavy rock/dead moose that is blocking the rails. And most important – by using them to keep the train running! Some fancy spinning cycles would do the trick if we “wired them up” and turned them into dynamos. (All this training would also produce endorphins and turn the passengers into joyful beings.) So roll over Einstein. Tell Stephen Hawking the news. There is a new brain in town. The Brain on the train to be exact!
Do you have an idea you’d like to share? Feature Friday will only happen when we have ideas from outside, so start submitting!
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