{"id":616530,"date":"2009-12-30T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2009\/12\/30\/will-a-wii-really-help-you-get-fit\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T07:35:00","slug":"will-a-wii-really-help-you-get-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/616530","title":{"rendered":"Will a Wii Really Help You Get Fit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2009\/12\/remote.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nYou might think that the solution to improving your physical fitness lies in that shiny new video game just steps away from your couch. And you&#8217;re certainly not alone, because fitness video games are undeniably popular. From the Wii Fit to the EA Sports Active, it&#8217;s hard to resist the idea of playing your way to a smaller waistline. But do these games really work? That question is what led researcher Scott Owens (along with a team at the University of Mississippi) to try to determine if fitness-oriented video games can actually increase exercise and help combat obesity. The study&#8217;s results, reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/12\/091218125110.htm\" >ScienceDaily<\/a>, indicate that the Wii Fit might not be as effective as you think.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe study&#8217;s most interesting findings, after the jump&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2009\/12\/30\/will-a-wii-really-help-you-get-fit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Will a Wii Really Help You Get Fit?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2009\/12\/30\/will-a-wii-really-help-you-get-fit\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19292835\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2009\/12\/30\/will-a-wii-really-help-you-get-fit\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Health, Fitness You might think that the solution to improving your physical fitness lies in that shiny new video game just steps away from your couch. And you&#8217;re certainly not alone, because fitness video games are undeniably popular. From the Wii Fit to the EA Sports Active, it&#8217;s hard to resist the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ao2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}