OH MY GOSH!

Look at what I found! So ironic that this is my next post after the last one where I talked about "little people" (midgets, dwarfs, whatever.)

British Gym Replaces Dumbbells With Human Weights

Friday, January 23, 2009 | FoxNews.com

Reuters- A gym member does some exercises for photographers using human weights at a Gymbox gym in London.

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A British gym is trying to add human interest to otherwise dreary workouts by replacing traditional dumbbell weights with human ones.

The Gymbox chain gym in central London says fitness enthusiasts can now swap their usual lumps of metal for human beings in a range of shapes and sizes.

According to the gym's owner Richard Hilton, it's all about visualizing strength.

"Creating a mental image or intention of what you want to happen or feel is proven to improve physical and psychological performance," he said in a statement. "The human weight lifting apparatus ... is the ultimate embodiment of visualization theory.

The human weights range from the "Dainty Dwarf" 32-year-old Arti Shah, who weighs just 66 pounds up to the "Super Human" weight of 37-year-old — and 342 pound — Matt Barnard.

Are you kidding me?! What the heck?! Also, this is not the only news story on this thing...I googled this after I found this story to see who else did an article on it and found more! Nothing like a "little person" to brighten that workout. One of the other articles I read said that they sit there as your weight, but they also say encouraging things to help you along. Talk about some motivation to go to the gym - seriously, if ANY gym here had this, I'd join immediately.