An air bike, an arm-leg exercise bike often with a fan providing variable resistance that scales with effort; e.g. Assault Bike, AeroDyne, or Echo Bike.
I skipped class because she was going to make us do rounds of burpees and sprints on the devil's tricycle.
I got thrashed on the devil's tricycle this weekend - my arms and legs are burning from the Norwegian 4x4 I did for my interval training.
The devil's tricycle taught me that no good workout goes unpunished.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”