英国健身房推出"真人沙袋"

      英国伦敦市中心一家名为Gymbox的健身房日前推出一种“真人沙袋”，平日里供顾客击打的沙袋里面站了一个真人，他可以模仿某些“毒舌明星”用讽刺和侮辱等方式对顾客进行挑衅，以让他们充分发力，消耗更多热量。充当“真人沙袋”的人则可以整天奚落人而无需担心被打伤。率先提出这种健身理念的人名叫安迪．蒙克，他表示这个想法是从“报复观念”中获得灵感的，报复被认为是驱动人类身体动作的十六种动机之一。他所在的Gymbox健身房还通过调查评选出十大“最欠扁的名人”脸孔，被称为选秀节目“毒舌评审”的西蒙．考威尔名列第一。目前，该健身房已招募到首位职业“真人沙袋”，并继续在网上征集与欠扁名人长相相似的人，为顾客充当“真人沙袋”。

      Gym-goers take a swipe at Simon Cowell look-a-like Andy Monk to mark the launch of the world's first human punchbag.

　　He is the music industry's Mr Nasty and isn't afraid to give wannabe pop stars a good dressing down, but imagine if you were faced with the wrath of Simon Cowell in the gym?

　　Andy Monk, a look-a-like of the famous media mogul, stepped into the first Human Punchbag at Gymbox in central London which 'goads' fitness fans to throw jabs and hooks at someone inside the custom designed bag.

　　The concept is being piloted by the gym in Holborn and aims to help fitness fans burn more calories by egging them on with a series of taunts and insults.

　　Mr Monk was on hand to launch the new concept as the pop supremo has been voted the 'most punchable celebrity' according to a poll by Gymbox.

　　The science behind the idea, dubbed 'Goad-tivation', is inspired by the concept of vengeance, one of the 16 identified motivational desires that drives that human psyche.

　　Unemployed Londoner Adam Bant, 30, from Harrow, has become the world's first professional human punchbag by taking on the role.

　　The gym hopes to recruit more fearless members of the public via Facebook to be its human punchbags.

　　Mr Bant said he had been looking for work for about eight months before taking the job at the gym.

　　He said: 'I couldn't find anything. But when I saw the Facebook ad looking for people to work as a human punchbag I thought 'Why not?'.

　　'Not only am I the world's first human bit of exercise equipment but now I get to spend the day winding people up without getting a scratch on me.

　　'The suits are really padded so I don't feel a thing when they hit me'.

　　Richard Hilton, of Gymbox, said: 'Our members expect us to bring them the latest in extreme workouts but they also have to work from an exercise point-of-view.

　　'We took inspiration from the likes of Muhammad Ali and Chris Eubank on how they goaded their opponents and added our unique piece of human equipment to provide the motivation.

　　'It's not every day you get the opportunity to punch someone without ending up in hot water so we think this will be a big hit with members.'

　　X-Factor mogul Cowell pipped former newspaper editor Piers Morgan into first place on this list of 'most punchable' stars.

　　Model and reality star Katie Price was voted third most punchable celebrity, whilst one in twelve want to take a swipe at her cross-dressing former boyfriend Alex Reid.

　　Mr Hilton added: 'It's no surprise Simon Cowell was ranked most punchable celebrity after his unceremonious dumping of national sweetheart Cheryl Cole from American X Factor earlier this year.'