This Korean infomercial has sat unloved on YouTube for a year and a half, then suddenly galloped to fame this week. It pushes a product meant to simulate the great full-body workout that you get from riding a horse. “Horseback riding,” however, is not the first activity that most viewers think of while watching the product demo. [More]
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Has The Free Flexor Replaced The Shake Weight As The Most Suggestive Exercise Device?
By 9.29.11
Consumerist reader Peter was flipping through YouTube when he came upon the Free Flexor, a handheld workout device that may give the notorious Shake Weight a run for its money in the race to be the most, um… self-stimulating workout device on the market. [More]
Consumer Reports Tests The Ninja Blender, Shake Weight, And Mr. T Flavor Wave
By 5.21.11
Our nerdy cousins over at Consumer Reports had their technicians put some “as seen on TV” products to the test as part of yesterday’s edition of the ABC News magazine “20/20.” Among the tested products were two designed to get you in shape (Belly Burner and Shake Weight) and three aimed at making cooking easier (FlavorWave Oven Turbo, Magic Bullet Express, and Ninja Master Prep Professional QB1004). So how did they do? [More]
Thousands Of Fake Shake Weights Seized
By 1.4.11
On Monday, U.S. Customs in Savannah, Georgia intercepted a shipment of 1,783 pieces of counterfeit exercise gear imported from China. The 764 cartons included Shake Weights, Body by Jake, and Total Core. The gear sported counterfeit logos. So not only would you get the normal benefits of a fake exercise product, the fake exercise products themselves were also fake. [More]
Shake Weight Inventor Doesn't Think It Really Looks Like You Know What
By 8.18.10
The inventor of the Shake Weight is actually a pretty casual guy and in a recent Q&A with Inc. mag he really downplays the innuendo-factor. “it depends how you shake it as well,” says Johann Verheem. “If you do it based on the three exercises that we have laid out, it’s not that suggestive.” See, you’re just doing it wrong, you pervy-pervs. [More]
We Have No Comment About This Exercise Device, Either
By 10.25.09
Not content with their stranglehold on the creepily suggestive fitness equipment market for women, the people behind the Shake Weight are now marketing the same product…for men.
We Have No Comment About This Exercise Device
By 7.29.09
A friend of ours has just shown us this video for an allegedly real exercise device called the “Shake Weight.” We have no comment about it.
