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Bandai Pedometer Includes A Samurai Adventure To Encourage Gamers To Exercise

If you can only do one of two things today, which one would you rather engage in, a jog around the park or a handheld video game?   Count me in for the video game crowd – all while downing some chips and a soda at that.  For folks like us, Bandai is hoping they have a solution – a pedometer/calorie counter that integrates a game with your calorie burning.
Who are we kidding?  A pedometer that uses the distances we travel as input for an integrated game won’t exactly make us want to exercise.  Unless the game is good and has a compelling storyline, that is.  Now, does it?
According to the press release (which I don’t understand since it’s in Japanese), the pedometer casts the lazy exerciser as a 16th century Samurai with his eyes intent on taking control of Japan.  You can choose any of three famous daimyo characters [...]

The Avatar of Exercise

If you are the type that strives to be in shape but find it hard to achieve results, you need to hear about this.
Perhaps you want to slim down. Perhaps you want to bulk up. Or perhaps you want to maintain your current state of physical well-being. But now that you’ve started working out, you see few results. This is because many people exercise, but few do so with the right form. Any exercise without the proper form can at best leave you as weak as you started, despite a regular workout that leaves others with consistent results. At worst, not using the proper form can cause painful damage to your body.

But if we are so dedicated to exercise, how do we then ensure proper form? Books may offer images, but they can only give so much instruction because, at the end of the day, it’s based on your own [...]