25 Fitness Gadgets From the 1980s That Failed Completely!

The strap is buckled across the back of your thighs, the motor is humming under the platform, and you are standing in the basement in your socks letting a machine shake you while the evening news plays upstairs. Fifteen minutes on this, the box said, and you would not have to walk the mile. In this video: ✓ The twist board ✓ The spring loaded doorway chin-up bar ✓ Toning tables ✓ The hydraulic rowing machine ✓ Gravity boots ✓ The sit-up board ✓ The clip-on calorie counter ✓ The roller massage machine Add up what one house spent on all of this and it comes to real money. Never at once. If one of these was in your house, tell us in the comments which one it was, and tell us how long it lasted before somebody threw a towel over it. Every one of them was a promise that the hard part could be skipped. FitnessGadgets #1980s #80sFitness #RetroAmerica #Nostalgia