{"id":556,"date":"2008-01-24T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2008\/01\/24\/wii-put-to-the-intensity-test\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T00:23:10","slug":"wii-put-to-the-intensity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2008\/01\/24\/wii-put-to-the-intensity-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii Put to the Intensity Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/wii.jpg\" title=\"wii.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/\/wii.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"wii.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>It is a question that has been posed since the release of the Wii &#8212;<br \/>\nCan the Wii be a source of exercise?<\/p>\n<p>Someone finally took the initiative to run a study.\u00c2\u00a0 The study came back that the intensity level is not enough to count as &#8216;exercise.&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 However, if you compare sitting and playing a video game versus sporting it up with the Wii, I think the higher intensity and more calories burned would be found with the Wii.\u00c2\u00a0 Now we know that it doesn&#8217;t qualify in fitting the definition of &#8216;exercise&#8217; or &#8216;sport.&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 This means that you can&#8217;t skip your workout to play video boxing.\u00c2\u00a0 However, every step does count so instead of sitting and watching TV &#8211; get out the Wii!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gaming.monstersandcritics.com\/wii\/news\/article_1388277.php\/Study_Nintendo_Wii_fails_cardiovascular_fitness_test\">&lt;&lt; Read the full article on the study! &gt;&gt;\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a question that has been posed since the release of the Wii &#8212; Can the Wii be a source of exercise? Someone finally took the initiative to run a study.\u00c2\u00a0 The study came back that the intensity level is not enough to count as &#8216;exercise.&#8217;\u00c2\u00a0 However, if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,10,12,23,9,22,8,27,11,26,14,15,28,29,21,13],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-diet","tag-exercise","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-attack","tag-health","tag-lifehack","tag-nutrition","tag-nytimes","tag-podcast","tag-podshow","tag-productivity","tag-slashfood","tag-withamymac","tag-workout"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}