Wii Exercising

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I got a Wii Fit for Christmas. And I love it!

I don’t have any illusions that it will give me as effective exercise as going to the health club. But it is fast, easy and a lot of fun.

I use it instead of watching TV.

There are many Wii games that are really quite good exercise. If you swap your regular screen time for some active games you’ve definitely won.

This tables shows the kcal per minute that you burn when playing on your Wii console compared to the real live thing.

Where:            Wii                Live

Golf:                 3,1                 3,9

Bowling:         3,9                 7,2

Baseball:         4,5                7,3

Tennis:            5,2                 8,1

Boxing:           7,2                 10,2

Though I wonder if American College of Sports Medicine took all the walking and running into account when they did this research..
The results feels a bit high to me.

Of course it depends on HOW you play it. You can play Wii tennis with one hand in your pocket and the other just waiving your fist. You can also do the ski jump on the Wii Fit by simply standing on your board without moving.
But if your not doing anything then; what is the point?

Even if I find the resluts from American College of Sports Medicine high I absolutely find the Wii sports games great exercise. It is also very convenitent and a lot of fun.

There is a reason that even health clubs are adapting this type of exercising.

Check out the Wii Fit trailer.

Image courtesy to kelvin255 on Flickr.

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