The Wii and your health

Posted Feb 5, 2007 at 12:51PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii Tags: Immersion Corporation, Mickey DeLorenzo, Nintendo of America, Perrin Kaplan

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Because of the fun factor delivered to the home, the Wii has been a favorite console for many families. It helps get gamers off the couch and keeps their bodies in movement.

But people have begun to suspect a newer angle to the Wii success: it might actually be good for health. People to some respect have already complained about exhaustion, sore shoulders and a new condition becoming well-known as "Wii elbows."

The exertion for most gamers may be daunting, but with so much enjoyment and laughter, the entire experience becomes a good thing. But Perrin Kaplan, marketing VP of Nintendo of America, said two months before that the company never received any complaints about sores. She stated, "If people are finding themselves sore, they may need to exercise more. It was not meant to be a Jenny Craig supplement."

But people believe she's wrong. Some games, such as Dance Dance Revolution and Unreal Tournament for a few, have been contributing to improving and curing health. The technologies behind visual and audio immersion provides virtual interactive environments that can train people to use their bodies to extents in order to improve their conditions.

Last December, the now-famous Mickey DeLorenzo worked on his Wii Sports Experiment. Setting 30 minutes a day to play the Wii, he lost nine pounds in six weeks. His book deal, entitled "The Wii Workout", was signed this January and now together with Traineo.com, he features Wii workouts to dieters and fitness buffs.

"It's becoming something like a Richard Simmons show," DeLorenzo said. "People will write, 'You've inspired me to buy a Wii and start working out.'"

Today, however, Kaplan now accepts the Wii's exercising potential. She said, "One of our hopes was that people would find a way to enjoy the Wii sitting on the couch or getting up and moving their body around. This huge fitness craze was more than we had anticipated."

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how cool is that. Like I've been saying one way or another the Wii will be a standard in every household around. You can casually play it. You can be a hardcore gamer and love it. You can be a lazy slob and still play it, and now you can even be a health nut and fitness person and play it. Everyone wins ^^

# Boxing — Guest 2007-02-05 17:16

Boxing is definitely the most tiring of the Wii Sports games. I had a sore shoulder the next day.

# 23 — Guest 2007-02-09 10:22

Yeah when I first got a Wii last month I got sore doing all that boxing Wii is great I love it.

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