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A great way to tire out the kids... Or at least keep 'em occupied while you tire yourself out.
Gone are the days of the chubby gamer. More and more studies are suggesting that the socially awkward, overweight gamer stereotype is a thing of the past, along with the myth that gamers are almost all male. With those tidy pieces of information shoved into your pocket, it's almost too easy to imagine the merging of video games and fitness. It wasn't hard for the games industry to conceptualize it either and it took them no time to jump right into that perfect pairing. Try YourSelf! Fitness, Dance Dance Revolution, Wii Sports, Wii Play and the piece d'resistance, Wii Fit. Why not include these incredibly popular video games in your normal work out routine? Or even better, why not trick children into working out? A Gold's Gym in Colorado Springs, CO has done just that.
Located off of Union and Briargate this particular Gold's has included a gym game room where children from ages 9 to 12 can go to play games and break a sweat. Not only is it a great asset for parents who want to work out but not pay for a babysitter, it's hardly difficult to talk your kids into playing video games with other kids for about an hour or so. Gold's Gym says:
It's all in an effort to give the kids something active to do while their parents work out. From Dance Dance Revolution, to a biking game that the kids have to pedal continuously in order to play, the games are all geared toward making the kids work.
Not so sure about the biking game, but letting kids pwn other kids at DDR in a supervised environment is top on my list. I'd like to see parents try to keep up with their kids in that game room. They might find out that video games are better cardio than those spiffy machines they've spent a boring hour sweating over.
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