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by Mike Howard

There continues to have existence a trend towards the convergence of 2 activities once considered diametrically opposed to one any other: Playing video games and playing sports. Since the beginning of the Nintendo Wii and more recently Wii Fit, plenteous has been speculated as to for what cause effective it is and more specifically in what manner well it translates to the actual sport in which it simulates.

The guesswork is officially over, with The American Council on Exercise releasing a study that compared the two. Here are the results…

Wii Golf: .8 calories per minute
Driving range golf: 3.9 calories per minute

Wii bowling: 3.9 calories/minute
Real bowling: 7.2 calories/minute

Wii baseball: 4.5 calories/minute
Real baseball (pitching): 7.3 calories/minute

Wii tennis: 5.3 calories/minute
Real tennis: 8.1 calories/minute

Wii boxing: 7.2 calories/minute
Real boxing (sparring): 10.2 calories/minute

Notes on the Study

• Participants were asked to do the Wii games as though they were playing the actual merry-making.
• one and the other game lasted 10 minutes and researchers recorded heart rate and V•O2 at one-minute intervals. Researchers in addition interviewed the subjects during the final minute of each sport to determine their perceived exertion levels using the Borg rating of perceived exertion (RPE).
• In addition to burning the most calories, boxing was the only Wii quarry tested that would be considered breast intense enough to maintain or improve cardiorespiratory endurance at the same time that defined by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
• 30 minutes of Wii boxing burns about 216 calories

Conclusions

• The Wii sports games are not as effective as real sports but certainly better than sitting without interruption the couch.
• Wii games are a good alternative in opposition to those who don’t want to go exterior for whatever reason.
• The key to getting a decent workout with Wii is to try and mimic the sport as closely as possible.
• Bowling is not a competent workout whether you are playing a video of game or actually bowling (hopefully you don’t find bowling very strenuous).