The Government’s targets on obesity and physical activity create a massive opportunity for the health, fitness and educational sectors. From birth onwards, movement is essential to developing and maintaining health and emotional well being. But baby seats now move from car to pram, to highchair, limiting neurological and muscle development and flexability. And computer games and television provide a ‘safe’…
Wii Fit Already Sold Out at Major UK Retailers By Tom Ivan Print | Send to a friend | Email the editor UPDATE – Nintendo may be unable to satisfy UK launch demand for Wii Fit, as numerous high profile retailers appear to have already sold their initial allocations of the ‘exergaming’ title. UPDATE – added Nintendo statement As spotted…
Exergaming | exergaming noun “The activity of playing video games that provide physical exercise” “A push for new frontiers in the fitness market, an aging gamer population, and increasing rates of obesity among the young are all fueling the trend toward exergaming. ” PR Web 18th August 2007 “…And the strategy that many developers are pursuing involves the new genre…
Exergaming Fitness Products at Two Rivers YMCA Moline, IL – Two Rivers YMCA in Moline, IL has recently installed a complete line of Interactive Gaming and Fitness products to create a Virtual Gym in their Teen Center. With the growing concern of inactivity and obesity – Interactive Fitness is a welcome solution to any club. “We are expecting a…
Fun figures in fitness plan at Palatine YMCA (Buehler) Make it fun — and make it active. That was the theme driving “Healthy Kids Day” Saturday at the Buehler YMCA in Palatine. The national event is designed to help families teach children to adopt healthy lifestyles. “In light of all the recent studies pointing to obesity in our children, we’re…
Exergames: Video Games That Keep Players Fit! By Marilyn Ferdinand RELATED ARTICLES Video Game Ratings Systems Video Game Safety Many parents are looking for ways to wean their children from video games and get them interested in pastimes that exercise more than their fingers. But not all video games are created equal. One type of video game that parents may…
Exergaming a.k.a. active gaming Health Games Research Posted on December 17, 2007 by pnmartinez Recently announced: from Robert Wood Foundation Site Health Games Research is an $8.25 million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that supports outstanding research to enhance the quality and impact of interactive games used to improve health. The goal of the program is…
PS3: the console with Exergame built-in At this week’s E3 show in Los Angeles, Sony’s PS3 has succeeded in being one of the major show breaking news. The console will be released in November 2006, Worldwide… What’s the link with exergames? The controller!! Sony will integrate on all its PS3s, through its standard controller, a motion sensor, allowing for far…
Wii: the success of exergames Yes, if you watch news, if you haven’t cut yourself off this world, you’ve seen it. Wii has emerged. Exergames are now Worldwide famous. While Sony and Microsoft played the same old game with the evermore graphics, Nintendo thought : “what don’t we upgrade this so-old-fashioned gamepads”? And Nintendo, with its Wii, was right. People…
Serious Games Summit: ExerGaming + EduGaming = ExerLearning 9 Comments by Kyle Orland Oct 31st 2006 7:30AM Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Rhythm, Exergaming It’s a no-brainer that games like Dance Dance Revolution can do wonders in combating our country’s growing youth obesity epidemic. But can rhythm-action games also help children improve cognitive skills like reading comprehension and concentration?Former…
Is Exergaming The Next Trend in Fitness? Mon, 05/07/2007 – 9:00am by geeksugar 5,621 Views – 12 comments From the Wii weight loss challenge, DDR busting a move in PE classes across the nation to substituting traditional workouts and sex to a little Wii tennis time, the media can’t stop talking about whipping the fat video gamer stereotype into a…
Health and fitness: Getting a Wii bit fitter? Last Updated: 12:01am BST 07/04/2008 Combining computer games with exercise is the latest way to improve health. Glenda Cooper tests the Wii Fit Watch: The Gadget Inspectors test out the Wii I am unbalanced. It’s official. This is not news to my family or, indeed, to any neutral observer, given that I…
