Category — Exercise

The other day I learned that the discovery of Bubble Gum was by accident.

A fellow, who worked at the gum factory, was trying some different formulas and discovered quite by accident that his formula (a) allowed bubbles to be blown, and (b) when they burst, they were dry on your face and didn’t leave a mess.

The first version was clear colored. Boring. So he decided to add some food coloring to it, and the only color he had on hand was pink. Voila! Double Bubble brand bubble gum was born. And to this day, bubble gum is traditionally pink.

ACCIDENT BECOMES SOMETHING NEW

There is a saying that “It Steam-Engines at Steam-Engine Time.” Meaning that a thing appears when its time has come. That when conditions are right, the new idea emerges. And we see examples of this throughout history. Marconi and Tesla were both busy inventing the radio at the same time on opposite sides of the globe.

Maybe the time was right, but I stumbled onto the Three Minute Gym quite by accident.

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The Three Minute Gym is a simple way to exercise which fits into the schedule and workday of almost anybody.

::: WHO CAN USE IT?

If you’re already going to the gym every day and spending long hours on treadmills and pumping iron, then the Three Minute Gym would be a simple way to stay fit when on the road or away from your usual gymnasium.

If you’re not a gymnoholic, and can barely find time to wash your nose in the morning, then the Three Minute Gym is a way you can begin to get back into shape, so you can feel the way you did when you were a kid — active, playful, energetic, and alive!

::: WHERE IS IT?

The Three Minute Gym is not a real gym where you have to pack up special gym clothes and drive to get there.

It’s simply a virtual gym — a little time you set aside for yourself — to ensure your health, enhance your energy, and improve your looks. It requires no special clothes, though it’s easier in pants and flat shoes (or barefoot) than in a dress and high heels. (So you guys wearing dresses and high heels will have to change. Sorry.)

The Three Minute Gym is a short set of routines that will give much of the benefit of exercises such as “resistance-training” (weights), “aerobics” (running and jogging), and “flexibility exercises” (like yoga).

But it can be done in a very short amount of time.

::: HOW IT WORKS

As with all things that actually work, the Three Minute Gym is very simple.

The first and most important core fact of the Three Minute Gym is this:

Surely you can find Three Minutes for exercise.

(If you can’t find even three little minutes, nobody in the room believes you even a little bit, and everybody including you is becoming completely disgusted with your shameless behavior! Bad! Bad boy!)

And so, on the theory that each day you can find a measly three minutes for exercise, we can begin.