A human starts up an exercise studio aboard one of the much larger stations. This place is reinforced to ensure humans can do their full exercise without harming the infrastructure, but its main focus is teaching isometric exercise routines to everyone, humans and galactics alike.
Here are some small examples of isometric training. But there are tons of others.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/isometric-exercises
https://blog.vantagefit.io/office-exercises/
https://www.vertimax.com/blog/top-20-isometric-exercises-for-static-strength-training -- Anon Guest
The Humans were being weird again. This particular weirdness involved a heavily-padded studio, and some intermittent devices of unknowable purpose. Many looked like torture devices[1]. Most peculiar of all was an entire room set aside for mats and little else.
Companion Halth toured it all in a state of confusion. "I had believed," he said, "that the CRC has banned all forms of torture."
"These are for exercise. Healthy self-maintenance with monitors and everything."
"And the mostly-empty chamber?"
"Isometric exercise. Body position and gravity make the muscles do work without much in the way of motion. Let me demonstrate." Human Quyin eagerly ran themselves through a series of poses whilst lecturing about muscle groups and what each pose did to a Human body.
Halth watched it all in growing horror. "You expect all cogniscents to be able to do this?"
"Well, not all of it. Not to start with. It's a simple enough philosophy, all the same. Stay healthy without straining yourself, sort of thing."
"What do you recommend for those who cannot move like that?"
At last, Human Quyin spotted the problem. "Ah. Right. Yes. Um. We will have to work on that. But we're starting with Humans."
[1] The link between exercise and torture is easy to find. Just look up treadmills throughout history.
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