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Neither the duration nor the intensity of physical activity it provides are enough to substitute for real exercise.
It's still better (fitness-wise) than sitting on the couch with a controller, though, and I find that physically interacting with the game makes certain games (like Child of Eden) much more enjoyable.
BTW, the games that see the most play on my Kinect are Dance Central (I don't have 2 yet
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
I would highly recommend it for someone who wants to get into shape and has a Kinect.
It's just a shame that it's so fecking expensive given that I could ride my actual bike in actual reality, albeit not in a stage race without some considerable inconvenience.
Rock Band prodrums on Expert is what I use to get cardio on a daily basis and if anyone thinks it's not a workout I challenge them fire up a ten or fifteen song set of Green Day and play through it :P
I'd be very surprised if a 30m Dance Central setlist at any difficulty can bring your heartrate up as high for as long as 30m of jogging or elliptical.
I mean, I don't have a direct comparison or anything, and I don't play Dance Central on Hard because I suck and I can't do the moves. Dance Central at the difficulties I'm playing on (Easy/Medium) leaves me feeling slightly winded but nowhere even remotely close to a solid run. I can watch something like this, which is the hardest setlist in the game:
and it strikes me as a mild-to-moderate workout, roughly equivalent to a level 1 aerobics video. It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination but this is supposedly as vigorous as it gets.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Other AR sites that aren't necessarily about exercise, but might get you out into the real-world doing real-world movements (important for fitness IMO) are sf0.org and supergoing.com
Otherwise, a lot of people like fitocracy.com, which basically gamifies exercise and gives you quests and points.
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I don't know if you're much of a basketball fan, but there is a player in the NBA named Dwight Howard. The man is huge, even compared to other people who are themselves huge. He's bulging with muscle and there's not an ounce of fat on him:
That's a man who is 6'11" tall, by the way, which makes those biceps bigger than most people's legs.
When he was asked about how he was able to get into such great shape, Dwight Howard said that after games, while his team was on road trips, he would retire to his hotel and play video games all night. But that's not all he did. He would use the gaming to pace himself as he would work out. He would play a quarter of NBA 2K, then do 100 pushups. He would play another quarter, and do 100 situps. Another quarter, and he would run in place or do some plyometric drills. After a couple of seasons of this, his strength and conditioning became immaculate.
Obviously this is the regimen of a professional athlete, so those exact repetitions and exercises may not apply. But the lesson does.
Dwight was taking his body through the normal exertion --> rest progression that one does while working out, and using video games as a way of clocking the time it takes to recuperate between exercises. It also works as a sort of reward system as well, but I would caution you that it takes the discipline to constantly, briefly pull yourself away from an activity that you find fun.
Think of games that you enjoy which can be readily divided into segments, into levels, into portions that can be completed in a few minutes. That's what you should try playing. You do a little gaming, then you do five minutes on the exercise bike, or some dumbbell curls, or some core work, or whatever the recommended exercise is in the program you're following. Once you're exhausted, you reward yourself and rest with some gaming, then it's back to exercising, back and forth like that.
Before you know it, you'll be 7 feet tall and dunking on people in the NBA. Or at least in much better shape. ;-)
Good luck!
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I haven't been doing it regularly, but I remember at one point I was doing what DDR said was 1000 calories burned two or three days a week (split up into two sessions of 500). That was A LOT of exercise, and was more intense then jogging. It's also plyometric, essentially, so it builds some strength as well. Downside is it's basically all leg work, but it's a hell of a workout.
I should take that up again.
Rock Band Expert Pro Drums are just insane, depending on the songs you pick, and can leave your whole body sweating, especially with double bass pedals. Fire up AC/DC Live and try to play through it all in one go if you want to see what I mean...
Just Dance 3 is also exhausting, but also totally fun, which counts for a lot. 'One more go' = motivation!
Fruit Ninja is tiring but not particularly awesome for specific training.
Kinect Sports boxing makes me work up a right sweat on harder difficulties and the football game is good for reactions and speed.
But both Your Shape 2011 and 2012 are fantastic tools to use within a workout.