The treadmill's dark and twisted past - Conor Heffernan
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The constant thud underneath your feet. The constrained space. The monotony of going nowhere fast. Running on a treadmill can certainly feel like torture, but did you know it was originally used for that very purpose? Conor Heffernan details the dark and twisted history of the treadmill.
Lesson by Conor Heffernan, animation by Yukai Du.
The tiny heads are immensely unsettling.
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Geff Jerstmann it’s an art style
Pine Drop Pye AJ
Thats true, its an unsettling art style
Ik i just focused on that for the whole video
Geff Jerstmann it’s a terrible artstyle
It's only a torture device if you're using it for 6 hours a day, a lot of things can be torture devices if you're using them for too long
like the cyka blyat song
arachnid14 LOL SORRY IF IM LATE THIS IS FUNNY
Like School?
like a chair
Like breathing?
I like how people in the comments are trying to frame exercize as torture, as if anyone jogs for 6 hours a day every day
Lazy fucks
Well, actually.
Seriously, even jogging for 15-30 min is draining.
Jogging around the city for 6 hours is not the same as jogging on a treadmill for the same amount of time.
@@emmanuelalagbala9590 pp
I bet those prisoners had killer legs. Literally, they could have kicked the guards to death.
Just A Guy Production you need caloric surplus to create muscle mass so no
@@captaingainzproductions1876 no, you need a duster coat and an ocular patdown to create mass.
@@JustAGuyProduction no you need steroids
They didn't have proper nutrition nor rest, their muscles were probably deteriorating
@@millennialdisposition you only need Crowtein to pack on mass.
0:24 "And you wonder...why is my face so fucking small?"
alex b LOL
alex b, this made me laugh so much
big face small head
THANK YOU. You made me laugh so hard
This tells us what we already know: "Exercise is torture"
Are you fat?
+Call me Will No, but he has a good sense of humor! XD
Call me Will Woah! You're not supposed to go around asking people if they're fat. :))
***** The sky is blue
+That Guy The sun is white
"That just sounds like slavery with extra steps"
-Rick Sanchez
-and Morty
Is cause it is
Agreed
Literally
Irok 121 rick Sanchez and Morty?
Ironic that I got a treadmill ad right before this
I got an ad for a pelaton tread. Ted-ed is subjecting us to torture
It’s called cookies
It's called ad *keywords
Fitting, or a coincidence. Not irony.
@@kukuki5000 ironic cause the video is talking about how treadmills were immoral and I got an ad telling me to by one
Your voice is my favorite out of all the people.
strawberry queen oath
strawberry queen 😏 yes.
strawberry queen Me too,
strawberry queen tru
strawberry queen they all sound the same to me lmao😐
I would love to see these dudes quads.
i know right
+Cooper Carr Considering that they got injured due to malnourishment, their quads were probably strong but not big.
Your muscles wouldn't have a chance to build up properly if you're working it out 6 hours a day.
+slugBuTtxXx bullshit
+Cooper Carr Overtraining+lack of nourishment and rest=loss of strength+muscle as your body would strip your muscles for protein to survive so there wouldn't be much to look at.
+Cooper Carr ... If they had enough food and were slowly trained to deal with that kind of exertion, it'd be impressive.
"Monotonous steadiness and not its severity... constitutes its terror". Could not have put it better than that.
What does it mean ? im not an english speaker lol
@@gregorkorosec6131 I'd say It means that it's more long and boring than dangerous to walk on.
Gregor Korošec it means that the treadmill is scarier for inmates because it is so exhausting and boring over such long periods of time Rather than because it is painful or rough
@@gregorkorosec6131 Lol same I had to read it 4 times
The american back then was more eloquent then they are now
Literally on a treadmill at the gym watching this
😂😭
Treadmill? More like DREAD-mill am I right?
I'll see myself out...
Ja
Jayden_W yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Jayden_W 😂😂😂😂
I'll open the door...
RiceTanker don't forget to close the goddamn door
this is why i love visual education so much and ted and the internet
Ayan44 u cool 🤜🤛
I understand and appreciate your artistic choice to draw tiny heads.
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I love the artstyle
Haha I find it cute and funny♡
This is really sad though, can you imagine the pain on their knees from having to take all those awkward steps. Some of these men were probably in prison simply for not bowing down to the nobility's desires, or for raising their tone against them
nononononononono
ok it's not that long ago, that's like medieval ages lol
be fair man these prisoners were either violent criminals, arsonists ,footpads etc not political prisoners (they would've been hanged almost immediately not incarcerated and put on a treadmill) also have you been reading too much dystopian stuff or are you convinced the middle ages ended in Europe in the 19th century (it ended in 1485 not 1898)
I always did tell my physical therapist that treadmills were dark and full of evil.
Mikhail Taufiq Indonesian
For the treadmill is dark and full of terrors
😂
Why are the heads massively out of proportion....
why not?
+Commenting Otaku bc it's creepy af
+Yusuf A lol it`s the style
cuz the editor has a small out of proportion dick
+Yusuf A What do you mean? That's how everyone looked in the 1800's.
Treadmills should at least produce energy, people would exercise more if it meant to have water and electricity
15 million merits
You could attach a generator to it for electricity
They exist
Legend has spoken.. This is the way
Jin 😹😹😹😃👌
Say whatever you want about the heads, the art style is freaking amazing!
i agree! i was looking through the comments to see if someone thought so too lol
@@heart4brainzz IKR! Lmao
I think this is still a great idea, that should be used in prisons to generate some electricity. Maybe instead of 6 hours straight you could do it twice a day for one hour.
+ThePikmania Agreed.
+ThePikmania Oh yeah, that's a great idea. Hell, why don't we throw prisoners into a giant blender and serve the resulting smoothie to the owners of the private corporations that run most of the prisons in the Western world?
+ThePikmania This would not generate any significant amount of power. Human generated electricity is not realy a viable alternative energy. 300 prisoners could power 300 60 watt lightbubls in a dim low power state for... however long they peddled for :/
there are some prisons that have bike that generate power obviousley not a lot but its better than nothing
Dominik David cites? also its still dumb
I like the music in this video
+doc hendrix I really want to get the beat sample, so bad
Some of its creepy though
avie smith Yeah exactly, that's what makes it good I think
+doc hendrix yep this is why I can't stop watching it😂
I agree.
Me: I wanna get healthy, let me find some good fitness videos on CZcams
Nobody else:
TedEd: *DID YOU KNOW THAT TREAMILLS ARE TORTURE DEVICES?*
Are you always like this?
Practical Experts what does that even mean
Were
@@isaiah3861 what?
Xd
that last line. chilling. “just be glad you can control when you hop off”.
This was so fascinating! I never knew. :)
+Xolette Fancy seeing you here ;D Love your videos too! //awk
Andrew Tse Thanks, Andrew!!
+Andrew Tse kiss ass
+Xolette I could have guessed
You can tell by clicking into the channel xD
The treadmill returned with a vengeance?
...
Jogger: Ugh, my thighs are burning.
Treadmiil: Yes, feel the pain. Your pain gives me strength.
U ever run a mile on a treadmill and then get off and feel like ur 50% faster
Yeah for 3 whole minutes
Always
*As fast
It is very disorientating, but it is hard to tell if I feel like I am walking faster or slower.
When I get off my treadmill I feel like I’m going backwards when I’m standing still
The music that started playing at 0:57 was so utterly satisfying to me idk why but it is. Just sounds like constant popping
It’s a really cool groove
and now you pay to torture yourself on that device... I wonder if water boarding will be some kind of treatment in 2115.
+Krzysztof “Kotu” Kotarba Increase the time you can hold your breathe for.
SWIMMING PRACTICE EVERYONE
Bruh
They will be breathe training devices
The real torture are the ridiculously insensitive buttons that get harder to press the longer and more intensely I run.
I wanted to bring the speed down to 6.5 not 0.5!
When I was 10, I was obsessed with the treadmill. I tried running a mile, and got super lightheaded afterwards. So thanks for clarifying the history of that torture device!
When he said how long they did that for, my knees started to tingle in discomfort
I love the whole Ted Ed series, but this was (even by such high standards) a real gem. Great job to the entire production team. What software are you using to animate with?
I come back to this video every few months just to see the animation and music. this is just a work of art to me
Or ya know? Go outside and run
You get the added bonuses of sight seeing, meeting people and generally just having a wonderful place to let your mind exercise with your body
Too hot
Ray u live in the Phillipines bro?
They were in prison they didn't have the "go outside" choice
We social interaction and it’s too hot plus all those insects like mosquitos
Maybe it's not "cool" enough for them.
God I can barely last 6 minutes on a stair machine and those guys had to do it for 6 hours?
Stair machine can be far more intense than a treadmill. Used by firemen to build immense stamina
Yeah i cant even climb up the stairs without running out of breath
@@clarkalarcon4057 well that’s because you’re extremely out of shape
6 hours climbing 1 - 2.5 miles uphill? I'd rather get guillotined.
same
easy to say that now and where you are without actually experiencing the situation first-hand for yourself.
I wouldn't, you see sometimes the guillotines blades went blunt and it even used to take 2-3 tries to chop the head...
I used to hate running to try and lose weight because I always ran on a treadmill. Ever since I started going to the park trails to run or bike, I've been in love with it
Always despised them, avoided them at the gym despite everyone else’s indifference to their torture.
Thanks for the historic validation TED.
tread mill - fascinating and entertaining - you guys are soon getting to the top of my most watched channels.
This is my excuse to my PE teacher now
+Goastly Productions
Obviously bad.
I am triggered by treadmills. My ancestors use to be tortured day by day by this cruel and unusual punishment. All I see in my head are flashes of them in pain and screaming saying "mercy, mercy, PE teacher!"
@@homelessdiaries3950 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You guys use treadmills in gym??
Nobody gonna mention the unusually small heads?
EDIT: This was a joke.
Missile almost everybody mentioned it.
honestly, it's just the artists style.
Missile to show you the body comes to a fit shape, by the end of the video :)
Watching this while running on my treadmill. Mind blown!
Peter Powers I feel like u tried to pull a sneaky on us
Thank you teded for letting us know all these stuff! Thanks a lot for all your effort!
I have a bad history with treadmills.
When my mom had divorced my dad she moved into an apartment. They had a small gym and a pool. My mom's friend is was really nice to me and we had nicknames for each other was with me and my mom at the gym. While I was running on one of the treadmills somehow I got too close to the edge. I cut my pinkie toe. the machine kinda grinded up the skin of my toe. They had to carry to me back to the room to patch me up. I somehow don't have any scarred tissue from the wound, but I remember exactly how bad it looked.
ouch
+Gatorade Fanta that's how I got a huge scrape on my back when I was 7
A treadmill killed my parents.
LostTranslation85 Its alive!!!
Ugh, I am not gonna lie that is worse way to hurt yourself.
This is my favorite TED-ED so far. I use the treadmill all of the time and had no clue of its history.
When he said "just be glad you can control when you'll hop off", I felt that. Prisoners had no control over it
Another thoughtfully constructed video with beautiful animations and a lucid explanation style…Looking at a treadmills..I would have never guessed that they were once used to keep prisoners in shape and power treadmills.
That original version was in Mad Max!
The animation, the music, and of course (as always) Addison Anderson's animation = phenomenal!
This raises another interesting discussion: In my opinion, causal workout machines that replace normal actions like walking and biking are an incredibly American way of staying fit. The reason so many people are unhealthy and never seem to resolve to get better is pretty much entirely because everything you use to get everywhere is a car. I find it almost amusing how much culture is dedicated to slandering both the annoyance of exercise and traffic, yet no group large enough has come to a solid consensus to eliminate both the problems by just building new things closer and safer for pedestrians so you can finally walk there.
Really interesting story and cool narration too, but what engaged me on this video was the animation and the SUPERB MUSIC! Loved it!
As always, great info.
Presenter sounds like his kids are sleeping and he's trying not to wake them, though.
Maybe his day job is golf announcing.
But seriously, I have seen documentary shows portraying slaves in ancient Roman times walking inside a large wheel, hamster style, to lift stones and do other construction work. So the idea of the treadmill goes back way before the 19th century.
If I was one of those prisoners, I'd just hold onto the railing and drag my feet over the rivets while saying "noooooo my feet hurt... Noooooo I hate you all..... Noooooo this is too much...... What'd I do to deserve this? Oh right, I killed moriarty instead of sherlock...."
I like you ^.^
Laughing out loud
Heheh H /eg
*Sherlock instead of Moriarty
Moriarty is the villain btw
Moriarty is da villain Sherlock is da Hero
I just want to thank ted./ted ed/ted talks/whatever it's called. The whole thing is just so good. It's like finding a gold nugget in the miles of carp on CZcams.
Historically interesting content aside, the animation is phenomenally good! Nice job.
No wonder I hate using treadmills. They're literally torture devices.
Everyone's heads have been stuffed in a jam jar
Now I feel less isolated. I can jog for hours; however, the first time I stepped on the damn treadmill was also the last, and for the exact same reasons this video explains. Thank you. I had a point all the time and I didn't know it.
LOVE the music in the video!
"Who you callin' pinhead?"
small heads
I read it in Patrick's voice LMAOOOO
@@user-zx9xi1mg2k Sameeee
I knew there was a reason I hated that thing.
I would like to see a reference for treadmills being used to power windmills and that being why treadmills were so named. A "mill" is a machine that rotates and a windmill is a machine that rotates when the wind pushes it. A treadmill is something that rotates when a person or animal treads (or walks) on it. They may have been used in British prisons in the 1800s but they were around in Roman times and never disappeared completely.
You are good explanator than all other
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@@sporkipine2947 They look fine. Just an artistic choice...
Can someone explain to me why you would rather run on a treadmill than running outside in a forest or so?
Right the only thing I can think of if its raining or supper cold outside.
Two words: air conditioning.
Sam Mitchell I take that for an answer
+Matt Fischer 1. Not everyone has access to run outside in a forest with clean air around. Not everyone wants to go alone in a forest, RE: Every horror movie ever. 2. Insects. 3. Watching TV, chatting, while exercising. 4. Having kids. 5. Having breathing problems.
+Kamel, K when you say having kids do you mean giving birth? Because that should be done indoors for sure.
The music in this video is stellar .
That was really cool! Loved this.
Its still a cruel and unusual punishment. Go hiking outside and see nature and all its wonder.
That's such a boomer thing to say
Why don't they use those cycles, treadmills connected in a way, to generate power, in the modern gyms? Atleast to power up the TV in front of you..!
Modern treadmills actually require power for them to move, so they’re possibly using more power than the tv...
Why not a similar device that was used in 1800? I'm pretty sure there's a way to generate power without using power to power the treadmill. or use the cycling thing for power
Power-generating stationary bikes do exist, but the amount of electricity they produce is so minimal that it is barely worth any additional cost or effort. I've seen estimates of average production being around 100 watt/hours. Badically, you can produce enough electricity to power a lightbulb for the duration of your exercise. The energy savings would be measured cents (not dollars) per month.
When people talk about electricity being expensive, what they really mean is that you need a large amount of electricity to power all the devices people in developed countries use in their homes, so therefore you have to pay a lot of money. Electricity itself is relatively cheap. It's not like gold where a small amount of it is worth a lot of money.
Because you might wind up with people exercising to death.
There is a video on CZcams, I’m struggling to remember the name, “cyclist makes toast” or something along those lines. A normal person will put out 100-150W over an hour, a trained cyclist can do 200W for an hour, a larger professional cyclist might be able to put out 400W for an hour, but one half of a toaster requires 700W of electricity.
Sadly, I don’t think most people would be able to power the TV they watch.
Interesting video. Really loved the art especially
the music in this episode is great
“Celebrities like Charles Dickens”
They had us in the first half
Literally everyday is leg day. Monday, Tuesday Wednesday. Thighs calves all the way. Thursday Friday Saturday. Sunday is the one day I should be on the runway. But it is still leg day, everyday is leg day.
Love this animation style.
Thanks for the idea
Why does the ‘music’/beat in the background make me feel immensely anxious?
You can't compare this two, the first one is going uphill and trying to push huge aas iron down, with the risk of falling for 6 horus everyday...the second one is flat, you can do it for 10 mins and no-one gives a shii, the only risk is getting hurt if you are too weak for your exercise time
@TED-Ed it became my favorite TED-Ed Video!
Love your videos!
So those bastards for free energy. I can only imagine how many innocents were thrust into the prison just to keep the numbers.
Probably not many.
@@ImNotJoshPotter during this time people could very easily sent to prison without really committing a crime, if a rich person didn't like them
@@millennialdisposition Yeah a lot like today. But that's for other reasons than building up hamster wheel energy.
But yes, even now if the powerful don't like you they will make up a reason to take you down.
Man.. Those guys really must've had really buff legs.
I really love the art style
love the music!
i thought the heads where tiny enough but at 0:51 WJSJSKJAJA
Alternative title: Me trying to find excuses and convincing myself that I don’t need to exercise
my favorite ted art style
Omg u litteraly smoothly ran me through that!
0:48 haha such small heads 😂
I loooove the illustrations
That's a great way to stay in shape.
I don't understand why people don't run in the fresh air to even release more stress. It's best for the human mind.
Because it may below zero outside, ice covering the ground, severe thunderstorms, someone may live in a very dangerous part of town, or an infant taking a nap in the next room so you can't just leave, etc. Lots of reasons.
They do, it depends on where they live. Some places don't have areas where running is possible
Because it’s 118° outside and if I breathe the air I’ll get valley fever
oh god so thats where the things on playgrounds are from
I am in love with your voice.😊😊
The beginning of this was very truthful for me. One minute in and I expect abs
*"Did you know that the treadmill was originally designed to be a tortured device?"*
Still is, buddy... 😒😏😏😒
It would seem like prisoners who litterally spend 42 hours per week on treadmills would be able to outrun the guards pretty easy if they escaped.
A little food, a lot of exercise =little power.
You don't eat, you don't grow.
Love the animation
Interesting. God bless and have a wonderful day.
This should be an episode of Adam Ruins Everything.