Exercising doesn't have to feel like a chore if you approach it like a video game, say fitness gamification researchers Dr. Mitesh Patel and Elizabeth Lyons. Strategies to have fun while staying active.
Exercising doesn't have to feel like a chore if you approach it like a video game, say fitness gamification researchers Dr. Mitesh Patel and Elizabeth Lyons. Strategies to have fun while staying active.Last December, Michael Garcia started going to his local Dave & Buster's in Gaithersburg, Md., to play an arcade game called Pump It UpPlayers move their bodies to the rhythm of the music as colored arrows light up on a platform beneath their feet.
But in order to see your progress and whether you've achieved your objective, it helps to track your physical activity, says Patel. That includes steps, heart rate and distance traveled, among other data. And there are plenty of digital tools that can help with this: wearable tech like theYou can also ditch the high-tech methods and go old school, says Patel.
Lyons tries to mimic these characteristics in her own fitness game designs. As part of her research, she created a Facebook page to help motivate older women in Galveston, Texas, to go for daily walks. To keep the participants on their toes, she posts fun challenges on the page. For example, she asks the women to take a photo of something on their walk that looks like a book cover — or mark off as many different kinds of trees as possible from a checklist she shares in advance.
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