It was about time somebody came out with something like this! Studeo 55, a gym in Vancouver, Canada has come up with a Nintendo Wii workout station. According to website Canada.com, Studeo 55 is thought to be the first gym in the country, and possibly in North America to include Nintendo’s next-gen console in circuit training.
The club’s owner mentioned that a single session of Wii boxing, tennis or bowling provides the athletic equivalent of going for a brisk walk. That means, a person burns anywhere from 75 to 125 calories, depending on the person’s size and activity level. Kim Bey is a former Olympic swimmer who was one of the first ones to use the Wii. She said, “I’m not a video game person. So at first, it was like, ‘I don’t get it. But it didn’t take me long to get into it and actually break a sweat. I’ve been training so damn hard all my life that nothing fazes me. Nothing. But this was like, ‘Wow!’ I think what you put into it is what you’re going to get out of it, just like all the other apparatuses in a gym.”
There have been other gyms in North America that have used video games before, but in a very different way. These gyms used to have consoles so they could attract the younger section of the crowd. However, it seems that more and more gyms will incorporate Wii in circuit training. What’s more, in the future, besides Wii Sports, these gyms can even make use of games like Wii Fit.
One more interesting thing about it is that most of these gyms charge anything between $300 and $400 as monthly membership fees. This, by the way, costs more than the Nintendo Wii itself! Maybe in the future, people would stop going to gyms altogether and instead buy the Wii to plug into the TV and start exercising.