Palatine, Ill (May. 21, 2014) – The Corsicana YMCA located in Corsicana, Texas will have their Exergame grand opening Friday, May 30, 2014. Kids will get the chance to experience the ultimate interactive fitness equipment. After attending the YMCA General Assembly last year and visiting our booth to see the state-of-the-art exergaming equipment, Terry Seth, the Executive Director of the…
SHEPHERD — The mezzanine at the Shepherd High School gym currently holds wrestling mats and softball nets and not much else. But by the time students are ready to start the school in August, the mezzanine will be Shepherd’s newest fitness center. Students of all ages in Shepherd Public Schools will become as fit as they want to be, thanks to…
NORWICH – After months of renovations,the Norwich Family YMCA is one step closer to officially opening a cutting-edgeworkout room that combines health and wellness with interactive technology. The organization’s new interactive fitness room is just one part of a larger $300,000-plus construction project recently spearheaded by the YMCA that includes a complete overhaul of the facility’s 3-story high kids’ gym…
The United States Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth at Capitol Hill was released on April 29. The report card evaluated the physical activity of the nation’s children. Not surprisingly, the report card gave the physical activity of children a D-. Why? Because as the report showed – only 1 in 4 children ages 6-15 get the…
Oftentimes, after implementing an Exergaming lab in the school setting, we seldom look back and see what the impact has been. Last fall, Motion Fitness installed an Exergaming lab that could accommodate 20 students at Lincoln M.S. in FortCollins, Colorado. Our goal in conducting a survey six months after the installation was to capture student and faculty reactions regarding the…
In 2012, North Crawford SchoolDistrict in Wisconsin was one of the lucky schools that won the Carol M. White Physical Education Program Grant (PEP)award. The PEP grant is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Schools (OSHS)and gives schools the funding to enhance Physical Education and Nutrition programs. North Crawford chose exergames as a way to keep…
Palatine,Ill (Apr. 17, 2014) – The Norwich Family YMCA in New York will celebrate Healthy Kids Day®, a national initiative to improve the health and well-being of kids. The event will take place Saturday, April 26, 2014, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. That same day, the YMCA will also be offering something unique to the community. The Exergame® room will be…
On April 2nd, 2014 the Harry Caray’srestaurant franchise opened a 22,000 square-foot complex on the seventh floor of the Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago. The complex includes Harry Caray’s 7th Inning Stretch restaurant and 8,000 square-foot Chicago Sports Museum, a memorabilia mecca for tourists and fans of Chicago sports. “We’re excited to bring this new breed of dining, entertainment and…
The problem was clear. The challenge set forth was daunting but vital. How can fitness be introduced to children at an early enough age to change the course of the childhood obesity epidemic? The answer seems simple enough: more access to fitness opportunities and healthier eating alternatives in order to instill healthy habits at a young age. But the obstacles…
School Specialty’s Sportime and SPARK Celebrate 25 Years of Honoring Top Physical Educators With Teacher of the Year Award Sponsorship Six Extraordinary Teachers to be Recognized at the SHAPE America Hall of Fame Banquet at the 2014 AAHPERD National Convention & Expo GREENVILLE, Wis., March 31, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sportime and SPARK, the premier physical education brands of School…
Success Story: Edison Elementary APPLETON — In a small room at Edison Elementary School, students pedal stationary bicycles that control what they see on a screen. The ExerGame cycles — two for lower body workouts and one for the upper body — are connected to Xbox or PlayStation video gaming systems so the students use both sides of their brain…
The article below talks about making your fitness center a lifestyle center, one that pertains to the whole family. Nowadays, parents aren’t getting the chance to work out because either the kids will be home alone with no babysitter or they’re running around with their kids for their activities. What if your fitness center was a one stop fitness shop…
