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Personal Training Walking for the Nintendo DS offers you a neat and innovative way to chart how much you walk in any given day through the use of a pedometer, which is included with the game. The included pedometers are significantly more advanced than usual pedometers, they use chip-based motion sensors so they don’t rattle. [...]
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Let’s Pilates for the Nintendo DS is not really a game, but instead uses the Nintendo DS as a portable, interactive training tool to help users learn Pilates moves, and track their performance. Like an instructional exercise DVD, Let’s Pilates demonstrates how to perform Pilates moves so users can build up to a specific routine [...]
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Let’s Yoga is like an interactive workout DVD for the Nintendo DS. Let’s Yoga is not a game, but instead uses the Nintendo DS as a portable, interactive training tool to help users learn yoga moves, and track their performance over time. It walks the player through a series of exercises and provides background information [...]
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This project was supported by National Research Initiative Grant #2008-55215-18837 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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Exergames are videogames that encourage physical activities. Here, you’ll find the best and most effective exergames, as well as strategies and recommendations on using them with different audiences and in different locations.