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Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…

Fitness & Nutrition

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Three Simple Things We Can Do Now While We Wait for Health Care Reform

I am not a politician, nor am I a policy expert, but I do know a thing or two about promoting health and fitness having been a pioneer of the personal … Read More…

Tweet your goals to 24 Hour Fitness and win cool prizes

24 Hour Fitness has launched a Twitter-based contest that has you Tweet your weight loss and fitness goals and offers prizes when you follow @24hourfitness. … Read More…
That’s all the news for today guys, so until next time, thanks for stopping by.

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The Nintendo Wii it seems, puts pay to the concerns in recent years over the inactivity in children due to their interest in video games consoles. The Wii console really sets itself apart from the rest with its revolutionary motion sensitive controller, which actually requires movement in order to play the games.

The Nintendo Wii comes with the game Wii Sports, which includes tennis, baseball, bowling, golf and boxing. In tennis you will be swinging the remote as if it were a tennis racket and flicking it up to toss the ball into the air with a quick swing to serve. The other Wii Sports games work in a similar way simulating controller movements for like movements onscreen. Boxing however is the only Wii Sports game that uses the nunchuk attachment and is the most physically exhausting game of them all. In order to hit your opponent in the head or body, you will have to aim high or low with your swings.

There are three different activities with each game. In training mode, you will participate in random challenges, after which you will be assigned a fitness age, based on your performance. Sound familiar? The Nintendo DS game, Brain Training comes to mind…a physical version perhaps?

The important thing here is that gamers are becoming more physically active without even realising it – you could say it has a ‘kill two birds with one stone’ effect, combining video game play with physical activity. Given this ‘physical’ nature of the Wii, I wouldn’t be suprised if parents rushed out to buy the Nintendo Wii just to get their kids off the sofa!

Another great thing about the Nintendo Wii is that it appeals not only to children and teens but to adults too, so its something the whole family can enjoy.

Could the Nintendo Wii revolutionize the way we play video games in the future? It will be interesting to see what Nintendo’s competitors come up with next – this could be a tough one to beat!

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Karen Bennett

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