Posts Tagged ‘Exercise’
Written by Enid Burns on 14 June 2010
Smile you're on the Kinect camera for the Xbbox 360
Exercise games on the market still require you to grab or stand on a controller to get your workout in. Yourshape Fitness Evolved, just announced from Ubisoft for the Microsoft Xbox promises a much more casual yet engaging workout. Using the video and sound controls of the game console’s Kinect, you just have to make sure you have space to move. The camera picks up your image and presents it as a polarized image or heat map-like image of you and captures all of your movements. Select cardio, toning or other activities and get to work. Yourshape Fitness turns some workouts into a game where you can kick and punch boxes that come into range. End your workout with a calming cooldown by doing Tai Chi and other relaxing exercises.
Check back all week for the latest fitness related news from the Electronic Entertainment Expo
Tags: Camera, E3, Exercise, games, Kinect, Microsoft, Video Games, Workout, Xbox, Xbox 360, Yourself Fitness
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Written by Enid Burns on 05 March 2010
March is National Nutrition Month, a time to look at what you eat and how you exercise.
This month is National Nutrition Month, a campaign created by the American Dietetic Association to raise awareness of our diets. It’s a time to learn to make informed food choices and reinforce your physical activity habits. This is low tech, unless you want to use the Web to research exercise, nutrition, and recipes. That’s all good. But we’re all for the diet and exercise the ADA is promoting here. So see it as a time to evaluate, and learn about what you can do to increase your fitness and overall health.
American Dietetic Association
Tags: American Dietetic Association, diet, Exercise, Fitness, National Nutrition Month, nutrition
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Written by Les Shu on 10 December 2009
From today’s New York Times, Gina Kolata stumbled upon the discovery that athletes may spend less effort on a workout than they would at night. She asks, “Are athletes more efficient in the morning?”
“A small group of researchers has studied the question of exercise performance and time of day, even doing studies of heart rates. And not only are performances better in the late afternoon and early evening, but, contrary to what exercise physiologists would predict, heart rates are also higher for the same effort.”
Click here to read more.
Tags: Exercise, gina kolata, new york times, time of day, workout efficiency
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