What do you make of this initiative?
A new pop-up café is opening up in London in which you can eat for free. This is provided that you do some exercise first.
The café, called ‘Run For Your Bun’, aims to encourage workers to be more active during the working day and highlight the important role that a balanced diet and regular exercise play in a healthy lifestyle.
The organisers stated that they came up with the idea following new research which revealed that the average office worker spends 90% of their working day sat down and not moving. This food establishment is giving customers the chance to ‘pay’ for their lunch with a six-minute micro workout.
Customers place an order for a lunch item from the menu at the beginning. They then complete the six-minute micro workout under the guidance of the café’s personal trainers before receiving their complimentary lunch to eat in or takeaway. The quick ‘HIIT’ (high-intensity interval training) workout includes one-minute on a rowing machine, one minute on a spin bike and one minute on a treadmill, as well as 60-seconds of sit-ups, bodyweight squats and lunges, with 30-second rest periods between each exercise.
While we’re impressed with the initiative and know that physical exercise can only be a good thing for your body and brain, it’s important to note that it’s not about working for your meal as we are all entitled to eat when we’re hungry.
This is why the café owners clarified that ”the cafe isn’t in any way about encouraging people to ‘cancel out’ calories through exercise”
”Ultimately our lifestyles are becoming increasingly sedentary and we want people to recognise that a nutritious, balanced diet and a healthy amount of exercise go hand-in-hand when it comes to leading a healthy lifestyle.” They said.
The café is only open from the 11th of January until the 13th for the moment.
You can find out more about the café here.
