One for the wish list

Add comment January 5th, 2009

When I read the story on HealthyRockford.com today about an exercise room designed for holding meetings, I was reminded of the reaction of Will Smith’s character in the movie “Independence Day” as he looks inside an alien space ship he has just downed in a dogfight.

It goes something like “I gotta get me one of these.”

The story, at http://www.healthyrockford.com/homepage/x1277304555/Board-meeting-too-boring-Take-a-hike-instead talks about a Buffalo, N.Y.-area health club that has opened a room in which the meeting participants can get a workout on treadmills or elliptical trainers during their discussion instead of munching donuts, falling asleep or whatever.

It seems like Rockford, which traditionally does a lot of its meeting in the early morning, would be a perfect place for this. The participants could get in a morning workout, get their business accomplished and be ready to hit the office invigorated for the day.

Of course, there would be a couple of things to work out about the workout. The meeting participants would most likely want a place to wash off the workout and they would probably still need to eat breakfast so a place that could provide the workout might also have to offer those too.

I can think of only two or three places in town that might be able to pull this off without a huge new investment but fitness trends change all the time and we can always dream.