Sounds like a Stairmaster. The blog Journl maintains everything in life comes down to three steps – of which the first is:

Action steps are the small, concrete tasks that characterise your everyday existence (the grocery shopping trips you go on every week, the bills you pay each month) and build towards a higher objective (keeping yourself fed, keeping your house warm). Though they may not be the most glamorous of tasks, their presence within a routine keeps things ticking over, allowing more time for projects of greater ambition.

Increasing Your Productivity Using the Action Method – (no author listed), Journl (7 November 2015)

Read the full piece for a touch more on this one and then the mysterious second and third steps.