Video game systems that require moving around and waving your arms are going to result in less juvenile obesity than the current systems, not more. Ole’ Robert doesn’t get that connection between more exercise and better health, evidently.
Doctors use Wii games for rehab therapy
"You can certainly make a case that some form of endurance related to strength and flexibility and balance and cardio would be challenged when you play the Wii," but hard scientific proof is needed to prove it, Oddsson said.Meantime, Dr. Julio Bonis of Madrid says he has proof that playing Wii games can have physical effects of another kind.
Bonis calls it acute "Wiiitis" - a condition he says he developed last year after spending several hours playing the Wii tennis game.
P.S. I entered Wii rehabilitation medicine neverdem into Yahoo's engine to find my old thread.
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I live by Lake Texoma in northern Texas.
This is largely a retirement area and the Wii is selling very well here to the elderly, who use them to play golf and tennis games.
I have been a serious WII user for 6 months. I have the balance board and regularly follow a course of yoga and fittness exercises. I could never have believed that at 66 I could become a yoga fan. I am and the results are ammazing. I have regained lots of agility and can pick stuff at my feet by bending from the waist. I can get down on the floor and back up with ease.
I also ski the giant slalom course pretty regular. As a skier, I’m amazed at the reality of the WII exercise. If you don’t ski, you don’t do well. You must move as on the slopes to attain speed and manuver through the gates. My skill has iimproved as I have regained agility and balance.
WII allows you to create a MII. My MII is a portly, gray haired bespeckeled bert that can tear up the slalom course and achieve expert on the advanced course setting. I ski the course now in 1 minute or less and feel the stress in my legs and torso. Although you are pretty much stationary, your body is stressed if you really get into it.
WII tracks your progress and helps set and maintain goals. It measures your fitness progres by virtual age. When I began iwould be 60 something or even 79. My virtual age was 48 the last session.
My wife also exercises and has also improved her ability to just move about. She uses a completely different set of exercises. She likes to go jiking on the virtual island.
You might be interested with this story and links in comment# 10.
The Wii seems to be the hot system around here, perhaps not least because of its lower price, but basically, it’s more of a whole-family system. It’s either sold out at Sam’s and Costco, or kept locked up somewhere so one has to ask for it. The XBox and PS3 systems are in great piles out on the floor.
Thanks for the fascinating link to the M.A.V.’s
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