Wii Sports Burns Less Calories than Real Sports (Gasp)

Scribbled on August 3rd, 2008 by Jonathon Howard
Filed in Nintendo Wii, Sports, WTF

No, not losing weight. In other news; fish swim in water and birds fly through a medium commonly known as air! The American Council on Exercise has released the results of a study they did earlier this year: People burn less calories playing the various Wii Sports than they’d burn if playing those actual sports! Yes, even bowling, the sport for over-weight, beer drinking, blue-collar workers burns more calories than sitting in your living room flailing your arm about! Say it isn’t so!

Lets look at the specifics shall we? We’ll use a chart because they’re cool!

SPORT	Calories burned on Wii	Calories burned playing	Difference
Baseball	4.5 /min	7.3 /min	2.8
Bowling	3.6 /min	7.2 /min	3.6
Boxing	7.2 /min	10.2 /min	3.0
Golf	3.1 /min	3.9 /min	0.8
Tennis	5.3/ min	8.1 /min	2.8

Oh, the study actually made the folks on the Wii stand up and do the actual motions. If you thought you were getting a work-out playing these games, then you’re either delusional or grossly out of shape.

So, get up, turn the television off and go outside for a bit, ok?

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