It's not uncommon to see people hitting treadmills and ellipticals to get in shape, but back in the 1940s an exercise machine called the Streamliner was introduced, and it was supposed to fight the "battle of the bulge" for you
Something tells me there were more than a few “unfortunate accidents” attributed to the machines in this video, because they look like they were invented by sadists.
-Via Boing Boing