Elastic EMS Workout

Find a way to adapt common gym tools for a reduced gravity environment and design a workout routine that can minimize bone and muscular loss while being fun and easy to use during a long term mission. In doing so consider constraints regarding weight (equipment should weigh less than 500kg) and dimensions. Consider incorporating virtual reality to simulate a jog through an astronaut’s favorite Earth destinations or incorporate gaming to motivate users.

Because there is no force pulling the astronauts down we need to create it, and to do so we will use elastic bands. In our so-called Space Tube, we have strategically placed hooks so that the astronaut can make different connections in them which will create different exercises to target different muscles or muscle groups. Furthermore (as you can see in the presentation) we have created 3 different add-ons to the tube which will help astronauts isolate the chosen muscle. There are so many creative ways to connect the bands and create exercises that we can write a full book about it. For example, connecting the bottom two hooks and putting the band over the astronaut will let him do push-ups, sit-ups, back muscle exercises and much more, and this is only using one connection (on the presentation you can see other exercises targeting different muscles). Is one band not enough to provide a difficult challenge? No problem you can double or triple the connection to make a harder exercise.

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