I watched the FootGaming video and it doesn't seem like I
would be burning a lot of calories doing it. I want to
lose weight.
FootGaming provides a unique sort of fitness. In sessions of 5-15 minutes on average, FootGamers experience exactly the sort of physical activity that is being shown to reduce obesity - along with the fun, energy and brain productivity we've discussed elsewhere on the website. Check out exactly how many calories can change your life!
Many overweight people in the USA have "sitting disease" and would lose weight if they did more walking, standing and moving around during the day, says endocrinologist James Levine of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Levine is talking about increasing your NEAT, or "non-exercise activity thermogenesis," which accounts for much of your movement and therefore caloric expenditure throughout the day. These are activities such as walking to lunch, pacing while on the phone, cleaning the house, cooking, climbing stairs, standing while you talk to a friend, folding laundry. It doesn't include the calories you burn during intense exercise: jogging, aerobics or power walking.
NEAT is a crucial part of people's total caloric expenditure, but it has been leeched out of people's lives, robbing them of using 1,500 to 2,400 calories a day and contributing to excess weight and obesity, says Levine, a professor of medicine at Mayo who has studied calorie-burning for 20 years. He has written a new book, Move a Little, Lose a Lot, with Selene Yeager to help people find new ways to move more and lose weight. FootGaming can deliver NEAT - and in turn, consistent weight loss, if that is your goal. You must make the decision to choose to move.
That movement can be lots of fun and it can partner with computer leisure fun you already enjoy.
- To better understand NEAT, see our overview.
- For more on exercise intensity and calories, explore here.
- What is total fitness anyway? This page explains how simply standing and balancing during low-end activity can help you become more healthy.
A study, led by Kinesiology and Health Studies professor Ian Janssen, supports the notion that kids should accumulate at least 90 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity over the course of the day, in bouts of at least five to 10 minutes’ duration. That amount of exercise is easy for any FootGamer to get in daily computer gaming fun. By choosing to use the FootPOWR peripheral instead of the conventional mouse for select software, virtual world and online game play you can not only add exercise to your day (whether you're an adult or a child) but inspire students, employees and your own children to do the same.
Until now, there has been no scientific evidence to support the recommendation of sustained, rather than sporadic exercise. “Even in 60-minute physical education classes or team practices, children are inactive for a large portion of the time and this would not necessarily count as sustained exercise,” said Janssen.
“When [people] engage in longer periods of sustained physical activity, there is a smaller likelihood that they will be overweight or obese,” Janssen added.
Within the most active children, 25 percent of those who tended to accumulate their physical activity in bouts were overweight or obese, compared with 35 percent in those who tended to accumulate their activity in a sporadic manner. The FootGaming logging tool automatically collects data on how many steps you take while Footgaming and measures it in terms of time, miles and calories. It is seamlessly easy to sure you and your family get the physical activity you need without taking away computer fun you already enjoy.
“Our findings have important public health implications with respect to the promotion of physical activity in young people,” said Janssen.
The findings appear in the May 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. (ANI)
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