# Living Exercise Equipment The Flourish Activity Weight Grows as You Workout By Michael Hines | Published 2011-01-15 | Life-Stages Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/flourish-activity-weight References: [yankodesign](http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/01/12/living-weights/) & [coroflot](http://www.coroflot.com/bradmitchell/flourish) The Flourish Activity Weight is one piece of [exercise equipment](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/equipt-movement) that I definitely want in my [home gym](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/aeke-k1-smart-home-gym) when I hit old age. Brad Mitchell's inventive [dumbbell](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/pent-x-swarovski) uses biomimicry to simulate a growing a plant growing inside the weight set. The more you work out using the Flourish Activity Weight, the more the plant inside grows. Despite sounding a little crazy, this concept is definitely one I'm interested in. The toughest part of working out is not seeing results, a problem which this weight set solves by becoming the result itself. Brilliant! ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 3.4/10 - Popularity: 38% | Activity: 57% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 10% men, 90% women - Primary generations: Millennial - Top markets: North America, Europe ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Life-Stages](https://www.trendhunter.com/life-stages) > [Seniors](https://www.trendhunter.com/seniors) ## Key Themes ### Why This Trend Is Growing - **Biomimicry Exercise Equipment:** The innovative use of biomimicry in exercise equipment offers disruptive innovation opportunities for creating interactive and engaging workout experiences. - **Growing Fitness Devices:** The growing trend of fitness devices that visibly change and evolve with use presents disruptive innovation opportunities for enhancing motivation and tracking progress. - **Result-oriented Workout Products:** The emergence of result-oriented workout products, like the Flourish Activity Weight, demonstrates disruptive innovation opportunities for addressing the desire for immediate feedback and visible progress in fitness. ### Industries Being Reshaped - **Fitness Equipment Manufacturing:** The fitness equipment manufacturing industry can explore disruptive innovation opportunities by incorporating biomimicry principles into their product designs and creating interactive workout experiences. - **Wellness and Fitness Centers:** Wellness and fitness centers can leverage the growing fitness devices trend to offer unique and engaging workout experiences that motivate members and enhance their progress tracking. - **Personal Training and Coaching:** Personal trainers and fitness coaches can embrace result-oriented workout products to provide clients with immediate feedback and tangible evidence of progress, leading to better engagement and results. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Minimalist Home Fitness Equipment](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/lifted-movement.md) - [Adjustable Workout Conditioning Systems](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/flyweight-home-gym.md) - [Contemporary Versatile Stacked Weights](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/lift-stackable.md) - [Aesthetic Dual-Purpose Weights](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/helix-weight.md) - [Space-Saving Training Sets](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/spacesaving-training-set.md) - [Digital Weight Training Systems](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/imgym.md) - [Adaptable Weight Training Equipment](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bowflex-results-series-1090.md) - [Connected Form-Analyzing Dumbbells](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/kabata-ai-dumbbells.md) - [Interchangeable Exercise Systems](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/intelligent-fitness-handle.md)