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It’s day 11 and I’m still going strong, spending at least 30 minutes each day exercising with the Nintendo Wii. Most days I strap on the wrist weights and do various activities in Wii Sports and most days I really enjoy it.
It turns out that all this video game exercising stuff has now been “proven” to be good for you. The Mayo Clinic has just completed a study claiming that moving with video games can be an effective form of exercise. This “study” compared the energy expenditure of a group of people who sat on the couch and played traditional console video games with people who stood up and had to move around to play the game. This isn’t stated, but one can guess they used a Sony Playstation 2 EyeToy or something similar. The group that had to move around burned more calories. Is this amazingly obvious? Yes. However, it is good to see that even professional organizations like The Mayo Clinic are now taking video games and exercise seriously.
If you really want to see a mix of video game exercise ideas from homemade to professional to one-of-a-kind prototypes, head on over to VideoGameWorkout.com. I’ve been reading it since it started and love to see some of the great stuff coming down the line.
Of course, you can also keep checking back here because exercising and losing weight with video games is one of my interests as well and I’ll try to bring to light some ideas that haven’t been seen before.
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One Response to “Wii Exercise Experiment - Day 11 - Exercising With Video Games”
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Wii and Good News at buttonmashing.com says:
[…] But what really caught my eye was a link he has on his latest update, a link to a studio by the Mayo Clinic (a rather reputable source) that basically says that video games (of the physically interactive persuasion, like DDR and Eye-Toy games) can be beneficial. The study was of a small group of children, but showed postive results. What surprised me the most was this: Screen time (both TV and video games) now averages eight hours a day among children. […]
January 11th, 2007 at 10:33 pm