The Sammamish YMCA has become another member of the YMCA of Greater Seattle Association to invest in exergaming. The YMCAs from Coal Creek to Dale Turner and now to Sammamish YMCA have seen the value and benefit that exergaming can bring their kids and even their adult members. Sammamish is a brand new YMCA location and the 5th member of the…
First of all, let us say thank you to IHRSA and everyone that helped make the trade show possible and a success. It was a time to remember for all! Now that we have had some time to settle down after the trade show and everyone else has had time to let the experience settle in, it’s time to finally wrap-up…
Not too long ago we had a blog post about the City of Largo and their predicament, Correcting Mistakes: City of Largo. In this post we explained how they had invested in two Lightspace Play Surfaces that in the end were faulty and not supported by the manufacturer. This left them in an odd situation – broken equipment with no…
The Edmond Martial Arts Academy is great little martial arts school that focuses on teaching our youth, located in Edmond, Oklahoma. It always excites us having installations at less than traditional places to have our equipment, as compared to a YMCA or health club. This is amazing in that it shows people how varied our equipment is and can be. Not only…
Being physically fit means you need to engage in some sort of exercise. Achieving a healthy level of physical fitness offers a number of great benefits, so it should be a goal for everyone. Exercise comes in the form of running, walking, cycling, swimming and even active gaming. Here is what happens when you engage in regular activity. Engaging in…
At the end of 2015 we were like many others in the physical education world, saddened to hear that there would be a lack of PEP grants in 2016. As many are aware these are usually very large sums of money that go toward physical education grants, that schools can then use to fund their exergaming purchases. But we are…
The Carlisle YMCA in Carlisle, PA joins the huge family of YMCAs that have invested in exergaming and interactive fitness. They have dedicated a whole room to be made into a youth fitness center. Their Youth Room is nicely furnished with a great layout for both the products and for kids running around being active. As shown in the photo…
As always we love sharing our customers great success stories with their exergaming and interactive fitness products. This week we are taking a look at the Boys & Girls Club of Benton County and their success with their CardioWall and iDance 2 systems. Boys & Girls Clubs are a great location to see kids experience exergaming at – you can…
As IHRSA approaches closer and closer every day, we get more and more excited. One of the most exciting aspects of us attending this year is the amount of our partners and friends that will be in attendance. As a distributor of interactive fitness products we offer a wide range of products, so to be able to physically see that will…
Exercising on a stationary bike is an effective way to get into shape and stay healthy. Over the years, stationary bikes have become more sophisticated. Products like our Exerbike GS makes indoor biking fun for even kids and teenagers. Interactive fitness isn’t something that is a few years away from becoming mainstream, it is popular now and you need to…
There are a number of benefits in exergaming. Exergaming, a combination of games and exercise, is becoming an increasingly popular activity in which both children and adults are engaging. And although research into this form of exercise is still relatively new, there have still been a number of studies that show the benefits of exergaming. In other words, exergaming offers…
Fit Interactive’s Heavy Ball is a great machine that can provide a great variety of workouts from strength, cardio, functional movements, low/high intensity movements, and it just goes on. Using simple weighted medicine balls, you drop the ball into the lighted column, and repeat until the workout interval is finished. Using different combinations of different weighted medicine ball, mixing cardio into…
