Standard-Examiner staff
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Video game creators have a new controller -- you.
The phenomenon started four years ago when Nintendo released the Wii console, which uses hand controllers and your movement to control the game. This winter has seen others invade the market, with the Playstation Move and the Xbox Kinect.
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Wii Fit, released in 2008, introduced the idea that fitness and video games could coexist. Now the studies have started trickling in -- and the news is not as promising.
"Nearly all of these research studies have a similar conclusion," said Dale Wagner, health professor at Utah State University, in an e-mail interview. "The interactive video games increase heart rate and energy expenditure compared to sedentary computer games. However, the increase in heart rate with these games corresponds to only light to moderate intensity."
Wagner said the studies show that the games on average raised the heart rate between 40 percent to 60 percent. The American College of Sports Medicine noted that moderate-intensity workouts need to be over 60 percent -- meaning that these video games fall short of moderate intensity.
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