ClimbStation $42k Home Gym
By Rocky Thompson on July 20th, 2009
Campus boards and training boards are cheap and practical but no one uses them after the first week. Now you can spend $42,000 and get a tiny garage gym that offers very long, repetitive routes. This gigantic treadmill called the ClimbStation uses motion sensors to keep you in the middle of the wall so that it spins as you climb. You can adjust the angle of the wall and set your own routes, and the wall can spin at up to 17m per minutes. For the price tag you could put a climbing gym addition on your house or get lifetime memberships at climbing gyms all over the country, but this way it’s right at home and easier to neglect.
This would work well as an American Gladiators training tool. Now the inventor just needs to add a robot arm at the bottom that grabs your ankles if you get too far behind.