Spectrum Leisure Centre says that the SportsArt Green System is paying dividends in harnessing exercise power and converting this into useable energy, following its installation in 2012.

Ian Hirst, chairman of Slam, the charity that runs the Spectrum Leisure Centre said: “We were the first centre to purchase the new SportsArt Green System and can report energy savings of £600 over three months of use.”

He added: “The new SportsArt Green System has provided that technology to assist us in supporting the environment plus the community we serve."

The new power-generating gym equipment uses its members’ exertions to produce power. At Spectrum, a ‘pod’ of 10 SportsArt elliptical trainers and cycles attached to an inverter uses the power from exercise, harnessing this and feeds it back into the power grid as useable energy. This energy is then used to save money in energy costs over the year.

SportsArt Fitness designed and built the Green System, which includes recumbent bikes, upright bikes and elliptical trainers all capable of producing up to 2,000 watts an hour and which cost the same as other SportsArt machines.