Using springs instead of weights and machines
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.
Training muscles is very important for astronauts. However, they are using huge machines to do so because weights are way less heavy in the space. My solution consists on using springs to train the astronauts muscles. The machines as you can see in the 3D picture are very small and are using springs. Those springs are removable so that users could use more or less resistant springs depending on their capacity and their goal in training. This solution is simple and the materiel used do not take much space.
