Chair that exercises with you

The chair allows the user to hold and brace against different parts to exercise muscles.

Many people want to exercise, but are just unable to conjure up enough energy to hit the gym. The TAO Chair is exactly what they need. This chair has been designed to provide a dynamic workout for your primary target zones in the comfort of your living room.

TAO Welless is building a TAO Chair as a follow- up to its debut prototype, the TAO WellShell. This sleek, smartphone sized portable looks like a set top box, but is an exercise gizmo you can carry anywhere. Instead of tracking your exercises, as most devices do, the TAO Chair actually exercises with you – at home, work, and while on the move.

This chair continues TAO’s mission of combating sitting, calling it the “enemy of good health”, and makes exercising more accessible as women and men get increasingly busy. The heart of the chair’s design is the arms. They have been crafted from aluminium and look like metal ribbons that have been twisted, bent, and pinched for extreme ergonomics.

These arms actually provide various holds and supports for working the main male and female target areas – core, butt, thighs, and arms. You can hold and brace against different parts of the arms of the chair, or push and pull them until your muscles tense up, and then hold to get a simple, hassle – free workout while you watch TV, or do whatever you do to unwind at the end of the day.

The makers point out that this chair is not meant to be a replacement for the gym and neither is it meant to jack your muscles up.

What it does is give you a means of exercise that does not need the time and energy that a gym does, or running.

The chair will teach you through exercises on the accompanying mobile app and its in – built, battery – powered display that shows the calories you’ve burned in your current workout and the total number of calories you’ve burned since you set the chair up.

The TAO Chair is not the only exercise furniture about to hit the market. It has a long line of predecessors that includes the GymGym exercise chair, and the GEWOS armchair.

Deviating from most of the designs out there, this chair takes the seated workout out of the office and places it in a more relaxing space. It also looks like it is going to be a lot less conspicuous than other exercise chair designs with their mounted rowers and elastics.

The company also launched its production version of WellShell at Consumer Exhibition Show, 2015. They are calling the design WellShell 2.0. the tiny pocket gym works with a free app that prompts you to vary pressure on the device in different positions in order to tone your muscles with the same underlying principles of pilates and yoga.  http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/fitness/chair-that-exercises-with-you/article7151199.ece