When it comes to our money, there is no shortage of ways we could spend it: food, rent, gifts, medicine, clothing, education, technology, gym membership, gas... you get the picture.
The problem that eGym is looking to solve is that, whilst gyms have moved from a bodybuilder market to a mass market in the last 20 years, the technology in gyms lags behind.
Ms. Abdur-Rahim, who attends City As High School in the Bronx, is receiving math and technology credits, along with gym credits for rowing and swimming.
Jonathan Hefter, 26, the founder and chief executive of Neverware, a technology firm, recently joined the gym with four co-workers as a team-building exercise.
The gym boasts wireless technology, so, however numerous your worries may be as you submit to pulses and zaps, tripping on a cord will not be among them.
Last year saw a steady stream of press stories about the new technology being banned by companies, gyms, galleries and schools, both in Europe and the US.
So for example, we are willing to use gyms with newer technology and different medical approaches, working with more futuristic methods if you like.
GymGroups is also working with gyms to add iBeacon technology to their buildings and individual workout machines.
The hijabs aim to be gym proof by employ cooling technology and using waterproof fabrics.
Until recently, the bathroom scale, the stopwatch and the workout journal were the easy go-to "technologies" for measuring our progress in the gym.
Perhaps it is in information technology, by driving an Uber car, as a gym instructor or working in the cafe industry.
