NEW YORK—The NFL’s charitable foundation is awarding a grant to study how to better prevent childhood obesity. NFL Charities will provide a three-year, $1.8 million grant as part of its “NFL Play 60” campaign to The Cooper Institute in Dallas to fund its Fitnessgram program. The program will be made available to 1,120 schools in the 32 NFL markets over three…
Playing action video games on a regular basis can alter a player’s attention skills. As video games continue to permeate our culture, schools and students are increasingly interested in using video games for learning. This interest has prompted universities and neurologists to explore what makes a successful educational game, what the current barriers to adoption are, and how gaming as…
Exergame Fitness is the global leader in Exergaming products and medically driven programming. We have over 10+ years experience in the fitness industry and were first to market with fully customized room designs keeping active gaming a positive way of battling childhood obesity and inactivity. We have the largest selection of tested products in the industry backed by our 110%…
“Successful games are ones that are fun and promote one’s competence, autonomy, and relatedness. iDance is unique in that it does support all four of these elements all within a physically challenging dance game.” Dr. Stephen Yang, M.S., PhD-ABD Assistant professor at SUNY Cortland Positive Gaming™ iDANCE contains music from well known artists from the machine dance community such as G-Powered,…
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL — Fitness facilities are entering the next lap of their evolution with the NeuroActive BrainBike, a new breed of exerciser that simultaneously trains the body and the brain, Stephane Bergeron, MD, president of Brain Center America (BCA), announced today. The patent-pending bike, engineered by Dr. Bergeron and BCA’s international team of brain specialists, makes its U.S. distribution…
A combination of exercise and video games is helping some patients with Parkinson’s Disease. What was life like before 68-year-old Bob Rohrman started exer-gaming to help his Parkinson’s? “My biggest scare when I first was diagnosed with it was that I would trip and fall, but now I don’t have that problem,” Rohrman said. Rohrman took part in a study that was…
Exergame Experts wish you “healthy holidays” with Video Games The holiday season is always a health rollercoaster. We eat too much, watch too much TV and exercise too little and then make New Years resolutions that we can’t keep. This year, make a change with Exergaming. The Exergame Network (TEN) reveals five ways of getting fit with video games, perfect…
This past week Exergame Fitness USA took a road trip to the east coast for a handful of Exergaming demonstrations with products in tow such as the iDANCE Wireless Dance System, Makoto Sports Arena and the Trazer 2. This video below was taken at the Columbus Ohio JCC that had well over 500 kids in attendance for this massive fundraising…
The past week SUNY Cortland has been lucky enough to experience exergames fitness. Exergame Fitness USA is a technology based excersising program that combines video games with physical activity. In class we were able to experience the iDANCE (see youtube video below) and on Friday were able to experiment with other systems. Some systems included riding a bike that makes…
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL — Fitness facilities are entering the next lap of their evolution with the NeuroActive BrainBike, a new breed of exerciser that simultaneously trains the body and the brain, Stephane Bergeron, MD, president of Brain Center America (BCA), announced today. The patent-pending bike, engineered by Dr. Bergeron and BCA’s international team of brain specialists, makes its U.S. distribution…
Hearing on “Using School Wellness Plans to Help Fight Childhood Obesity” “Testimony of Phil Lawler Director, Exergame Fitness Advisory Board Member and PE4life Instruction and Outreach” For 35 years, I served as a physical education teacher in Naperville, IL. I’m proud to say that our physical education program evolved into one of the most respected PE programs in the country…
It is our pleasure to inform you that official MENA reigon Exergame Fitness dealer “In-Motion” has been featured in one of the most weekly read magazines, Friday Magazine. The magazine covers various topics from Health, Fashion, People, Travel, etc. In this issue, In-Motion was featured in the Trends topic as “A fun new alternative to the treadmill has hit Dubai…
