Kotaku: Exercise

Namco Bandai Celebrates UK SoulCalibur V Launch With Fitness Classes

Mike Fahey — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:00:00 EST

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Every Tuesday evening in February London fight game fans can step away from their game console and grab a little fitness with Gymbox's SoulCalibur V: Swordsman Workout class. No, seriously. More »

Getting Fit The Skyrim Way

Brian Crecente — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:00:00 EST

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A new fitness program that asks gamers to earn time gaming by exercising is targeting fans of one of the biggest releases of the year. More »

Pac-Man Creator Wants To Pump You Up

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:00:00 EST

Pac-Man might have been inspired by greasy pizza, but that doesn't mean its creator, Toru Iwatani, wants you to turn to lard. More »

Review: Your Shape: Fitness Evolved

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:40:00 EDT

At last, I have a way to exercise in front of my TV without any contraptions (or other people) near my body but still with a way to get yelled at if my form is bad. More »

NSFW: Bald Man Humps Pillow For Android Exercise

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:00:00 EDT

Getting in shape is hard. Some people need motivation. Others need motivation. More »

Study Says Kids Likely to Play Video Game Sports in Real Life

Owen Good — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EDT

Duh, you say. Well, the usefulness of the report suggests that playing video games ain't entirely sedentary, and aren't a threat to actual exercise. Ah, now do you see? Sports games are our friends. More »

The WHO Says Games Make Kids Fat

Owen Good — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:30:00 EDT

No, not the British rock legends, the World Health Organization, which called out video games as a prime contributor to sedentary lifestyles obesifying the planet's children. More »

The World's Most Badass Exercise Video Game

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:00:41 EDT

The game you see here will include a calorie counter. Lose weight by delivering a punch to the gut, followed by a head butt. More »

Woman Loses 112 lbs., Thanks Wii Fit

Owen Good — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:00:00 EST

A 38-year-old British woman, once so large she was afraid to have sex with her husband, now parades about her home in sexy lingerie after losing 112 pounds, a dramatic change in physique she credits to a Wii Fit regimen. More »

Wii Fitness Shares Store With Dumbbells, Treadmills

Brian Crecente — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST

David Campisi's life is all about exercise and sports. More »

Wii Fit And Wii Sports Exercise Weighed And Measured

Mike Fahey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:20:00 EST

A new study has determined which Wii Fit and Wii Sports activities actually qualify as moderate intensity exercise, as defined by the American Heart Association. Are you actually exercising? More »

This Could Be The Biggest Wii Pack Shot Ever

Mike Fahey — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Here's the pack shot for Cyberbike, the Nintendo Wii exercise game that comes with its very own, full-size exercise bike packed right in. More »

Wii Helping Snowbound Schools Make P.E. Fun

Owen Good — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST

Anyone who's ever lived in upstate New York can imagine the difficulty gym teachers face in winter, when kids simply can't go outside. Many schools, however, are using the Wii to get kids some exercise. More »

Angels Donate Wiis To Soldiers

Stuart Houghton — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:40:00 EST

Nonprofit group Soldier's Angels is donating Nintendo Wiis to severely wounded veterans. More »

UK Scientists Testing The Wii's Exercise Potential

Stuart Houghton — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:20:00 EST

Is Playing on the Wii actually any good for you? Kotaku was all over this from the start - check out our groundbreaking study - but apparently the Lancet don't take papers from gaming blogs. Their loss. More »

Kids Can Burn Calories While Gaming

torif — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:00:00 EST

There's yet another study on obesity, children, and video games. Y'know, just for a change of pace. But wait! This one was done by The Mayo Clinic, making it somewhat reputable! And what makes this study different from all the others? Instead of looking at, "Do video games make kids fat? Y/N," the study looked at just how much energy kids used while playing traditional games, watching TV, playing virtual camera games placing the child on the screen, watching TV while walking on a treadmill, and playing a dancing game. The study had a small sample group, with 15 children considered in the "normal" weight range for their age and height, and 10 children considered mildly obese. More »

British Schoolkids Stave Off Obesity With DDR

Maggie Greene — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:30:08 EDT

There have been a number of new stories about US schools using Dance Dance Revolution as a way to get kids who aren't into competitive sports or their required PE classes moving - now the Brits are getting in on the act. Despite the fact that the BBC couldn't be bothered to fact-check the name of the game title, they have a short piece on the use of DDR in Bedfordshire schools - they've just done trials, targeting it's use towards girls who aren't interested in traditional sports: More »

The EyeToy Creates Real Sweat

Mark Wilson — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:00:29 EDT

After studying 16 participants playing Eyetoy: Kinetic in laboratory circumstances, Dr. Alasdair Thin (yes, that's seriously his name) proclaimed that fake sports can be just as good as real ones:

We were interested in measuring the levels of exertion from an exercise physiology point of view and compared the average heart rate that each subject was exercising at to the American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) recommended exercise heart rate range. Our findings reveal that playing these video games can provide an effective workout.

Wii Weight Loss Not Typical

Brian Crecente — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:55:12 EST

We first wrote about Mickey DeLorenzo back in early December when he set out to lose weight by playing Wii Sports. More »

Better Fitness Through Gaming

Mike Fahey — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:45:26 EST

Ben Kuchera has an excellent article posted over at Ars Technica, in which he tackles a subject that has been on everyone's mind since the release of the Wii, that being gaming and fitness. Unlike the Wii Sports Experiment, Kuchera avoids the Wii itself, opting for more fitness oriented games like Dance Dance Revolution, Yourself Fitness, and to a lesser extent, Eyetoy Kinetic. He adjusted his diet and worked out using the games for 45 minutes a day, 4 days a week, for two months. I don't want to spoil the result, but let's just say he did not gain weight. More »

The Wii Sports Experiment

Mike Fahey — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:40:45 EST

Since the release of the Nintendo Wii, we here at Kotaku have wondered how much of an effect playing Wii sports actually has on the human body. How would it effect weight, heart rate, and overall general health? As we gathered our resources together, ready to hire a massive team of scientists, nutritionists, and computer specialists to do just that, someone else beat us to it. *sigh of relief* More »

It Hurts When I Wii

Mike Fahey — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:40:17 EST

I woke up Saturday morning after a Friday filled with at least 10 hours of playing Dragon Ball Z and Raving Rabbids on my Nintendo Wii, and my shoulders hurt like hell. I was sure I had slept wrong or something, since the pain felt similar to a stiff neck. It wasn't until later when I pulled out the Wiimote for some more crazy-haired fighting action that I realized where the pain was coming from. A day of holding my arms out and swinging them around had taken its toll on my poor, neglected muscles. Apparently I am not alone. Wall Street Journal, world renowned for its video game coverage, posted an article on Saturday related to the Wii-pain phenomenon, in which Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan addresses the issue. More »

Step2Play Child Torture/Exercise Device

Mike Fahey — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:40:28 EST

UK Company Gymkids unleashes a new weapon in the war against a global epidemic - fat kids. The company is releasing the Step2Play, a stair stepper device that hooks up to any Playstation 1 or 2 system, allowing your child to play only as long as they continue walking, an idea I believe they stole from Dante's Inferno. They stop walking, the game stops playing. It features an adjustable exercise rate sensor, allowing you to set the machine to a slow pace, for when you are feeling merciful, or a quick trot, for when you are overcome by feelings of parental failing and want to take it out on your overweight children. More »

Tetris Weightlifting

kotaku.com — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:00:27 EDT

This meat puppet I walk around in? Not only do I want a refund, but I can't believe the amount of upkeep it requires to work properly, including exercise... something I hate doing because it's just plain hard. As far as I'm concerned, the sooner science can extract my brain with a mashed-potato scoop and slap it into a super-sexy, non-degrading cyborg body with a prehensile penis, retractable machine gun turrets growing out of triple-D breasts and a Wii disc slot directly interfacing with my brain, the better. More »

The Obese And Out-of-Shape All Love Maya

brownlee — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:00:17 EDT

Game Set Watch has a great post up summarizing the personal connections a lot of people feel towards Maya, the peppy virtual fitness instructor from Yourself! Fitness. A lot of people tend to think of Maya as a real person. Although I would normally consider such people out of their fargin' gourds, I actually understand this, because Yourself! Fitness helped me get in shape. More »

HANDS (FEET) ON: Dance Dance Revolution Jackie Chan Style

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:22:31 EDT

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Jackie Chan is swinging his hips at me again. I'm trying to keep pace, but finding it hard. We've only been at it five minutes, and I'm already starting to feel the burn. Jackie makes big gestures with his hands. I wonder if I should do the same. Ah, what the hell. More »

Get Sweaty with the Drunken Master

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:01:14 EDT

Jackie Chan wants to pump you up. The Hong Kong star has been roped in as the spokesman for the XaviX Port, which is an external exercise device. This isn t the first marriage of gaming and exercise, but it does have to be one of the first game consoles designed strictly for exercise. More »