PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE // 1818
Fun Fact:
164 BPM
BREATHING RATE: ELEVATED
Treadmills were originally invented in 1818 by British engineer William Cubitt as a prison torture device to punish convicts and force "hard labor" — prisoners walked on giant hamster-wheel-style treadwheels for up to 8 hours a day, grinding corn or pumping water, with no actual purpose beyond suffering and "reforming" them through exhaustion. It was banned as cruel by the early 1900s. The weird part? Today, over 50–60 million Americans willingly pay money to walk/run on modern versions of this torture machine for "fitness" — often for hours, staring at a wall or screen, while voluntarily inflicting the same repetitive, soul-crushing grind that once broke prisoners. Some gym-goers even name their home treadmills or refer to sessions as "torture hour" in viral TikTok/Reddit posts — turning historical punishment into self-inflicted cardio culture.
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