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Kids Can Burn Calories While Gaming


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.

The most interesting result of the study? The dancing game actually expended more energy than walking on the treadmill. Hit the jump for exactly what those results were.

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9:00 AM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By torif
3,861 views, 38 comments

Latest by kylo4: If you play drums in Rock Band you burn a lot of calories. So does the guy who goes nuts with the guitar and jumps up and down and all around like he's Angus Young. more »

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British Schoolkids Stave Off Obesity With DDR

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 »

10:30 AM on Sun Sep 16 2007
By mgreene
2,123 views, 16 comments

Latest by carrierj1: This is how you get kids that aren't into competitive sports to stay in shape. You say, "Hey you fat fuck! I don't give a damn if you're into competitive sports or not. Get your Hardie's Thickburger eating ass out more »

that's why we stink

The EyeToy Creates Real Sweat

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.
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9:00 AM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By Mark Wilson
2,118 views, 23 comments

Latest by samtech: Wii LAST for exercise, does not even make the top 5!!1. GZ Stepper - 600 cal/hour2. EyeToy (Kinetic) - 500 cal/hour - [from this research]3. DDR - 410 cal/hour4. GZ Cycle - 400 cal/hour5. EyeToy (Games) - 300 cal/hour6. Wii more »

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Wii Weight Loss Not Typical

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


hey_suburbia at WiiNintendo.net plans to spend 30 minutes a day playing Wii sports, from December 3rd to January 15th, in order to chart the effect it has on his body, tracking his pain, weight, Wii Fitness Age, etc.


DeLorenzo would later report that he managed to lose nine pounds in six weeks by playing Wii Sports for 30 minutes a day. His workout was so successful that he has now signed a book deal, The Wii Workout, and teamed up with Traineo.com to show off his workout, Time reports.

But is his story of losing all of that weight while promising to "continue ALL normal activity and eating habits" too good to be true? Likely not for him, but it sounds like he may be an anomaly.
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4:55 PM on Thu Feb 1 2007
By Brian Crecente
3,810 views, 20 comments

Latest by lazur: Weight loss via exercise is illusion in most cases, merely one aspect of positive preocupation, consciously and unconsciously influencing activity levels outside of the formal exercise program, and eating habits. It would be unreasonable to expect a person to more »

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Better Fitness Through Gaming

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 »

12:45 PM on Wed Jan 17 2007
By Mike Fahey
270 views, 16 comments

Latest by Sederien: Honestly... I loved Yourself!Fitness. Nothing to be ashamed about there. I used it every other morning or so to wake up and felt better all day. Didn't quite keep up with it as much, but I'm starting again this Saturday after more »

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The Wii Sports Experiment

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*

hey_suburbia at WiiNintendo.net plans to spend 30 minutes a day playing Wii sports, from December 3rd to January 15th, in order to chart the effect it has on his body, tracking his pain, weight, Wii Fitness Age, etc. More »

12:40 PM on Fri Dec 8 2006
By Mike Fahey
802 views, 32 comments

Latest by K-dawg: Sloth love Chunk. more »

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It Hurts When I Wii

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.
"It was not meant to be a Jenny Craig supplement," she says. "If people are finding themselves sore, they may need to exercise more."
Gamers not getting enough exercise? Nonsense! I predict that In six month's time you'll be able to tell Wii fanatics by their massively bulging shoulder muscles. Anyone else out there have Wii aches? Michael Fahey More »

10:40 AM on Mon Nov 27 2006
By Mike Fahey
1,509 views, 72 comments

Latest by alfie424: Playing wii tennis hurts more than actual tennis. And it still hurts. Ow... more »

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Step2Play Child Torture/Exercise Device

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 »

11:40 AM on Mon Nov 6 2006
By Mike Fahey
570 views, 30 comments

Latest by squigglychicken: okay kotaku is having some serious ass server problems right now. more »

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Tetris Weightlifting

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 »

8:00 AM on Fri Oct 20 2006
By kotaku.com
184 views, 13 comments

Latest by vicariousmonster: That wouldnt exercise anyone... This is most likely to hurt the muscle tissue and make the poor geek never want to exercise again... When you work out, you gotta make repetitive and synchonized movements... Doing it too fast, too slow more »

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The Obese And Out-of-Shape All Love Maya

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 »

5:00 AM on Fri Jun 2 2006
By brownlee
481 views, Comment

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

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 »

2:22 PM on Wed Oct 19 2005
By Brian Ashcraft
458 views, 2 comments

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Get Sweaty with the Drunken Master

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 »

9:01 AM on Wed Sep 7 2005
By Brian Ashcraft
282 views