1. Barlow describes that people pay a great amount of money to do exercise in the health club and they don’t even enjoy it. However, they can get the exact same result by climbing up stairs in their own houses or offices for totally free. This kind of exercise mania is not only conflicting but superficial. People pursuit something blindly and neglect the essentials of consuming energy is to use it effectively with proper purpose.
2. In paragraph 5, the author reveals that because of the exercise mania, we are running out of energy while at the same time polluting the environment with our waste; and in paragraph 6, Barlow compares people in the past with people in the present. He mentions that people nowadays waste their energy merely to fit into new pants or develop biceps rather than to get somewhere or to meet the needs of fuel. Finally, in paragraph 7, the author says that people abandon the natural way to do exercise but deeply believe that fitness machines can lose their weigh effetely that they even willing to pay to do this.
3. The author uses a humorous solution: Let people on the machines create useable energy to generate electricity or sell this excess energy to the shops near the health club. Better yet, create health clubs whose sole purpose is to generation of energy that supply to every family. Let not waste energy but to use it to benefit mankind.
4. I think the main subject of this essay is “waste” which can be fond in the title of this essay “Sweating for Nothing”. Also, the author uses the concept of entropy, the measure of waste, to support the idea of waste in almost every paragraph and discusses humorously how to solve the problem of wasting energy.
5. I agree with Barlow’s thesis. I used to think that doing exercise with fitness machines in the health club is the only and effective way to stay in shape and therefore ignore the natural way to do exercise. Because we pay to do exercise in health club, we are unwilling to waste our money and thus force ourselves to waste energy. However, it is just like “putting the cart before the horse”; if we are still trapped in this kind of trend and lose our mind, the idea of transforming our excess energy into electricity can be a good one to solve the problem ideally and at the same time benefit others.
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