Earlier in the week Senior Editor (Health/Medicine) Katherine Hobson from US News & World Report interviewed me by phone. Here is the online article titled “The Power of Wii: Getting in Shape with Video Games?” What if you could turn video games, criticized for everything from their obsessive hold on users to their purported role in childhood obesity to their…
Popularity of video game workouts takes Y by surpriseCARTER HAYDU The Moose Jaw Times Herald Jessica Sorowski, 12, poses with the video boxing game at the YMCA on Thursday. The YMCA has incorporated physical activity and video games as a way to keep kids active. Colin Dewar photographA happy surprise from the local YMCA’s summer video game fitness trial program…
When it comes to casual gaming there is one games console that’s miles ahead of all the others, and that’s the Nintendo Wii. The Wii Fit has brought people onto the Nintendo Wii that may never of owned an Xbox 360 or Sony PS3, and there are many more accessories on the way to the Wii. This is one such…
Looks like the pensioners are here to battle it out with the younger generation and fair play to them, pensioners and teenagers love the Nintendo Wii because is mimics real life motion plus it keeps you active. Well whilst visiting Times Online they have some interesting news that we thought you show read, pensioners are basically saying no to bowls…
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After sending out our Exergame Fitness press release for the new and exciting Gamercize products we are selling, I was sitting at home tonight and figured I would do a simple search online looking for someone that has documented Exergaming products back to the 1980’s where I remember seeing similar products out today like the Wii Fit etc. After about…
Pedal to Play! It’s really that simple. The all new USA Made eXerbike designed by eXergame Fitness and Hoggan Health Indiustries is a commercial grade game bike designed to bring competitive fun and stunning Playstation graphics back into kids interactive fitness. Using the superior power and technology of the Playstation 2, users can play their favorite racing, boating, motorcycle and…
Shigeru Miyamoto turned us all into button-mashing couch potatoes with “Donkey Kong” and “Mario.” His latest creation aims to get us fit. Shigeru Miyamoto doesn’t just work for Nintendo, one of the world’s leading game makers. He is Nintendo. The most successful game designer in the world, Miyamoto is responsible for blockbuster series like “Zelda,” “Donkey Kong” and “Mario.” More…
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The path to fitness begins with a single step. Nintendo’s new Wii Fit combines fun and fitness in ways that will have people getting up off their couches, moving around, having fun and maybe even breaking a sweat. Wii Fit gets everyone pumped up about making enjoyable physical activities a part of their daily routines. Wii Fit even tracks users’…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Injured athletes may find themselves playing Nintendo’s Wii Fit as part of their rehabilitation. This and other fitness-oriented video games have “great potential” for core strengthening and rehabilitation and may boost compliance with rehabilitation exercises, Sue Stanley-Green, a professor of athletic training at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, told Reuters Health. “We are looking to…
