A new study carried out by academics at the University of Mississippi has found that Nintendo’s Wii Fit software has “little effect” on improving fitness.
In a bid to find out whether daily use of the equipment improves family fitness, researchers gave eight families a console and copies of Wii Fit and tracked their fitness levels for three months. They then carried out fitness checks for three months without the families using the console.
Throughout the study, a number of different factors were tested, including aerobic fitness, balance and body composition.
The researchers found that during the period when the families were using Wii Fit, the amount of time spent exercising dropped from an average of 22 minutes per day for the first six weeks to just four minutes per day by the end.
The academics concluded in their report that while children may have improved an increase in aerobic fitness, there were no notable changes in activity, fitness or flexibility for the whole family. It added that modest daily use of Wii Fit does not provide enough stimulation for a change in fitness levels.
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