Electric horse for exercise

Evidently there's a long history of horse riding simulators as exercise devices.

Electro-mechanical horse with five gaits
ranging from a trot to a running gallop.
Some of the benefits of horseback riding as a form of exercise can be obtained indoors with the aid of an electro-mechanical horse which not only provides fun for the children but sport for grown-ups as well. At a touch on the reins, the horse can be induced to break into any one of five gaits ranging from a trot to a gallop.
Source:Popular Mechanics - May 1936

A modern-day simulator — that no longer looks like an actual horse:

Update: another old time indoor horse exercise machine.

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Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 30, 2017
Category: Exercise and Fitness

Comments

If she's going to bother making a video about the simulator (I at first thought it said "stimulator"), how come she doesn't actually ride the bloody thing?

Posted by Brian on 07/30/17 at 07:19 PM

As long as it doesn't have to look like a horse, why not get a Sybian? That'll burn off those calories. https://sybian.com/

Posted by Virtual on 07/30/17 at 08:04 PM

I just watched it to see her breasts jiggle.

Posted by KDP on 08/02/17 at 07:52 AM

If you want to see people actually exercice on those things, the Koreans have just the thing for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MzzLsJEzR8

Posted by Yudith on 08/06/17 at 07:01 AM

Kind of beats the hell out of those coin operated ones outside the grocery store so many years ago.

Posted by GFinKS on 08/07/17 at 01:24 PM

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