Nintendo sold over 5 million Wii Fit units in the first nine months it was available. According to a recent study, many of those units are probably collecting dust right now. The study followed 8 families and 21 participants for 3 months and monitored their Wii Fit usage and several fitness parameters.
Unfortunately, adults showed no improvement in any of the measured fitness parameters( aerobic fitness, muscular fitness, flexibility, balance or body composition.) The kids showed improvement only in aerobic fitness.
Most telling: average daily usage dropped 82% from the first 6 weeks to the last 6 weeks, from 21.5 +- 9 minutes per day to 3.9 +- 4 minutes per day. The study concludes that modest Wii Fit usage provided "insufficient stimulus for fitness changes."
Save your money and talk the family to a park instead.
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