A Healthy Living Room Makes Movement Instinctual
Traditional living rooms showcase stationary furniture. This was fine when most people came home from working labor jobs in the fields and at factories. Modern jobs involve sitting at a desk for many hours. The original fix was health and fitness gyms about 5-15 minutes away from home. It is time for a more convenient and modern solution to being physically and mentally fit.
Without needing a Kinesiology degree, by simply switching out traditional furniture in our homes, anyone can become healthier. Take, for example, a swing that hangs from the ceiling. It should be common knowledge that leaning forward and backward, pumping your legs up and down while gripping the support ropes will burn more calories than sitting still on a couch.
What if we stacked and offset two couches so you had to climb up one couch to get to the second couch? There is strength, balance and coordination involved in climbing to a second level even if you are just going to sit up there. But, add rings to the ceiling above you and it can make for more strength gains or even just reaction time drills by hitting the rings like a cat toy.
Say you need more stimulation than this. By turning a trampoline 45 degrees, you can toss a tennis ball at it and the physics will rebound the ball right back to you. Instant hand-eye coordination and more calories burned! Don’t forget about your feet, either. Installing a piece of finished wood onto a wall creates a good rebounding surface for a soccer ball.
Flexibility is an important aspect of fitness but often forgotten about. With stall bars on your wall (think wide monkey bars that go vertical), it’s hard to walk by without reaching up to the top for a little cat stretch. Many stretches can be done with stall bars especially while you are talking on your handsfree device or streaming online. Flexibility is very important for injury prevention.
Your base of support are your feet. Much of our time is spent on flat surfaces which does not challenge our feet to stay strong and flexible. With cobblestone floors (companies make artificial mats) to walk on, we can maintain independence and continue our health journey much longer. This is the ultimate goal in redesigning our living space. You do not stop moving because you are old, you get old because. you stop moving.
A good marketing plan can sell this healthy living room to residential homes, commercial buildings, retirement communities and even resorts. Lets work this together and change the way humans stay active in 2025.
