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the tomb raider workout

Former Lara Croft, Fitness Guru

Nell McAndrew is apparently launching her own "lifestyle companion" mobile fitness application in the UK, used to create workout routines from a database and develop a meal plan. Who's Nell McAndrew? 1998's model for Lara Croft, of course.

McAndrew seems to have left her Lara days behind her, though, as the announcement makes no mention of her role as one of the first Tomb Raider models. Shame, because I'd love someone to promise me I can look like Lara Croft. I mean, Nell McAndrew is pretty and all, but come on! Lara Croft!

Anyway, for those who might've been wondering what McAndrew has been up to lately, full announce after the jump.

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5:20 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By Leigh Alexander
9,809 views, 35 comments

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Xbox 360 Sponsors National Family Fitness Day

Microsoft is teaming up with the Boys & Girls Club of America to help kick-off the inaugural National Family Fitness Day on May 12.

The event will take place at the Children’s Aid Society’s Dunlevy Milbank Center Boys & Girls Club, New York and inclide a chance to play DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE 2 on the Xbox 360 for free. Supermodel Christie Brinkley and health expert and physician Dr. Carlon Colker will both be on hand to kick things off.

Boys & Girls Clubs in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Seattle will also be hosting similar Family Fitness Day events, though none of them will be getting a super model on hand.

“Making sure that my children stay active and healthy is my top priority,” Brinkley said. “My children and I love to find new and exciting ways to get up and get moving, and playing games like ‘DanceDanceRevolution’ on Xbox 360 lets my kids have fun and get fit at the same time. And I have to admit, I have a blast playing it too.”

The event is happening the week before Wii Fit takes over a part of Central Park with their own fitness expert: Ashley Borden

Hit the jump for the full Microsoft release:

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4:00 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Brian Crecente
1,601 views, 46 comments

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Wii Fit Invades Central Park Later This Month

Nintendo and celebrity trainer Ashley Borden will be taking over a chunk of Central Park on May 19 to celebrate the release of Wii Fit.

Nintendo plans to have a slew of Wii Balance Boards on hand to do live demos and for everyone person who goes through the demo, Nintendo will make a $5 donation (up to $25,000) to the American Heart Association.

The event will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Merchants' Gate in Central Park, at the intersection of Central Park West, Central Park South, Columbus Circle and Broadway.

The Wii Fit party will also double as a celebration of National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, which happens to be in May.

12:00 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Brian Crecente
4,348 views, 51 comments

fitness

DDR Workout Benchmarked, Found Healthy (Again)

DDR might not still be all the rage with Wii Fit around, but its health benefits are legitimate according to the American Council on Exercise (ACE). We just came across and interesting study from late 2007 testing people ages 12-25 in which ACE calculated that teens burned 5.9 calories per minute on easy, and 6.7 and 8.1 calories on standard and difficult, respectively. For adults, probably because they weigh more, those numbers were even higher. So let's compare DDR to some standard aerobic activities and see how it holds up, shall we? More »

2:20 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Mark Wilson
8,682 views, 85 comments

Latest by bobtheduck: @antimony: Yeah, that's true, but what you can do is set up your own endless routines or at least long routines. It may not be entirely steady, but at least it's more consistent than "Exercise a lot, choose your song, more »

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LA Kids Learning Via Video Games

Now I have another reason to want to go back to school besides really cheap little rectangular pizzas. Starting today, children in schools across Los Angeles County will be playing video games in class...or more specifically as class. PlaySmart is a unique education program created by non-profit organization Star Inc. that uses video games to teach children skills like problem solving, objective thinking, literacy, and jumping on turtles. The program takes games like DDR, Mario Kart, and the Pokemon card game and twists them into tools for teaching PE, team building, and positive gamesmanship, whatever that means, noobs. Hell, if I had DDR in gym class I wouldn't have had to wear that fake cast every day. Check out the program's website for more details on this innovative merging of games and education. More »

10:20 AM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,483 views, 18 comments

Latest by SinistarX: You'll never have to go without rectangular pizza again. Behold Nardone Bros! more »

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Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

We've all heard the stories about people using Wii Sports as a workout tool, but personal trainer Zander Urquhart of Glasgow, Scotland is taking Wii fitness to new a new level. He has started offering classes that utilize the Wii as a workout machine. He started off by offering the classes fro kids, but then saw the popularity quickly spread to adults as well. Up to four people can participate in each class and according to "University Studies", players could burn up to 125 calories in a fifteen minute session. Mr. Urquhart is purportedly the first person to use the Wii in this manner, but I doubt he will be the last. More »

11:00 AM on Sat Apr 7 2007
By fdemarco
13,629 views, 22 comments

Latest by l31RD: my daily shit: school= 8hrs biking=2-3hrs wii=at least 2 hrs more biking=1-2 hrs we can all smuggle in wii time to stay fit 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 »

wii sports

Lose Weight With Wii Sports

Playing Wii Sports not only helps you lose weight, but makes you shorter and your pants bigger. Suburbia at WiiNintendo.net began what he calls the "Wii Sports Experiment" in December. He blogs: More »

6:22 AM on Tue Jan 16 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
8,647 views, 41 comments

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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
807 views, 32 comments

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

tetris

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
185 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
490 views, Comment

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Physical Training With a Digital Partner

The New York Times looks at the curious success of digital physical trainers like Maya in Yourself!Fitness. The notion that digital personal trainers can use artificial intelligence to adjust your fitness regime is pretty fascinating. Whether or not you get off your behind and do what Maya tells you is another matter, I suppose. Who said video games weren't good for you? More »

4:41 PM on Thu Feb 23 2006
By lsmith
59 views, 6 comments