Making fitness equipment by yourself from bioplastic to stimulate home fitness during the lockdown (Covid-19).
Gyms - Accessible for everyone
Rehabilitation care - Specific way of fitness with focus on a part of your body. Guided workouts.
Sports club (for example a football club) - Two or three times a week training and one match.
Fitness equipment companies - You can only exercise with expensive equipment or if you have a lot of money
Fitness equipment: Money and space.
Sports club: Closed during the lockdown, athletes are stuck at home.
Rehabilitation care: Closed during the lockdown, people are lagging behind with rehabilitation or physical complaints.
Gyms: Closed during the lockdown, people do not know how to workout at home.
What if fitness equipment was cheap and mini.
Foldable fitness equipment
What if there was a priority plan for specific patients for physiotherapy during the lockdown.
Priority for patients who have to relearn to walk for example.
What if gyms bring their equipment to you.
Renting equipment from gyms.
This week I want to create a bigger gelatin based balance cushion. I want to try out two shapes, flat and rounded. For the flat one I use my mold from the housing of the old clock. For the shaped one I use a mixing/salad bowl.
Once again I used the Bioplastics Cookbook by Margaret Dunne.
I upscaled the amount:
1L water
200 grams of gelatin
120 grams of glycerine
In the flat shaped mold I put some transparent foil so it would not leak when I cast.
I mixed everything together in a bigger pan than before and kept stirring until it became one composition and started to thicken. When it thickens i poured it in both molds.
After casting in the molds I've let it dry for two nights next to an open window before taking out.
The picture above clearly shows the difference between the flat and the rounded shape. I've tested them by standing on it with my whole weight and doing a short workout.
The rounded shape worked fine and challenging to do exercises and would like to continue with that. The flat shape didn't work out because it functioned more like a mat and you could stand on it as long as you wanted. Another application for the flat shape could be a fitness mat.