Shower? Five minutes. Makeup?
Twenty minutes. Workout? Four minutes. Say what?
It might sound like fantasy, but over at Quick Gym, a new Charlottesville business, the claim is that their machines serve up 20-45 minutes of aerobic exercise, 45 minutes of weight training, and 15 minutes of stretching in less time than it takes you to find a parking spot.
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After eight minutes on the Quick gym, our correspondent felt like jelly.
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Skeptical, I tried it out (full disclosure: My usual exercise routine consists of nothing more than 20 minutes of gentle yoga). Here’s how it went down:
The machine was tailored to my size, and I hopped on for some upper body action—a push-pull rowing motion that made me stretch way out over my knees. Four minutes down, I felt good. Pumped, if you will, and kind of red in the face. The trainer was enthusiastic. I agreed to work on the lower half, making mine an eight-minute workout, and that’s when I decided that the machine lives up to the weight training and aerobic claims: It was like lunging up a mountain, and then, to stay above my target heart rate, being chased by a grizzly bear. Afterward, I wobbled out on jellified legs, panting and purple, and my heart thunked hard for almost 45 minutes. Heart workout? Check. As for stretching, however, I’ll stick to yoga.—K.C.
