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24-02-2012 19:46 Did you know you can play video games AND get fit at the same time? I know, it's crazy! Watch as Tara gives us an in-depth look at some of Kinect's top fitness titles, including Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012, UFC Personal Trainer, Zumba Fitness Rush, and more! Like, Comment & Share This Video Destructoid: http://www.destructoid.com Destructoid on Revision3 revision3.com Destructoid on Twitter: twitter.com Destructoid on Facebook: facebook.com facebook.com Max on Twitter: twitter.com Tara on Twitter: twitter.com ABOUT THE DTOID SHOW Destructoid is the gaming show brought to you by gamers, for gamers. And also for anyone interested in robots, unicorns, and jet packs.

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All-In Fitness

Like that huge gym you contemplated joining, this app is cool but a touch overwhelming. Beyond weight, cardio, and yoga workouts, you can track calories eaten and burned and even use the personal-trainer algorithm to construct a regimen based on your age, weight, gender, and goals.

WIRED 700 exercises plus the ability to add your own. Smart video tutorials.

TIRED Layer upon layer of menus. Laborious data entry to track reps and sets.

Rating: 7 out of 10

$1 (iOS) | All-in-Fitness

Daily Yoga Free

This refreshingly simple app does just one thing: It guides you through a 20-, 40-, or 60-minute yoga session. Video and audio tutorials take you from child pose to Virabhadrasana II and help keep your Utkatasana on form.

WIRED Clear instructions. Soothing ocean-wave background option.

TIRED Limited poses. No way to create custom routines. Has banner ads and just one level; ad-free version ($2.99) delivers only one more level.

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Life Time Fitness (NYSE:LTM - News)

Residents of Mississauga and surrounding communities are invited to experience Life Time Athletic Mississauga. Demonstrations of Life Times programs and services will be offered during this special event.

For on-site tours, media must contact KJ Leinberger at kleinberger@lifetimefitness.com or 952-229-7162.

About Life Time Fitness, Inc. As The Healthy Way of Life Company, Life Time Fitness (NYSE:LTM - News) helps organizations, communities and individuals achieve their total health objectives, athletic aspirations and fitness goals by engaging in their areas of interest or discovering new passions both inside and outside of Life Times distinctive and large sports, professional fitness, family recreation and spa destinations, most of which operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Companys Healthy Way of Life approach enables customers to achieve this by providing the best programs, people and places of uncompromising quality and value. As of January 24, 2012, the Company operated 92 centers under the LIFE TIME FITNESS and LIFE TIME ATHLETICSM brands primarily in suburban locations in 21 states and 26 major markets. Additional information about Life Time centers, programs and services is available at lifetimefitness.com.

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Business Fitness NZ turns 10!

Interactive accounting content firm Business Fitness NZ provides New Zealand accounting professionals with a single source of authoritative and practical information to make them more productive. The progressive Mt Maunganui company has just turned 10.

Business Fitness NZ provides innovative solutions for accountants that include a range of over 1500 how to, process-driven compliance and service templates as well as electronic work papers, documentation kits and software and client development tutorials and webinar programmes.

The company was sold last year to CCH New Zealand Ltd, a Wolters Kluwer business. CCH is a leading global provider of tax, accounting and audit information, software and services and has served tax, accounting and business professionals in New Zealand since 1974.

Mr Russell Evans, President of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Asia Pacific and Chief Executive Officer of Wolters Kluwer Asia Pacific, said that clients of Business Fitness NZ and CCH have both benefited significantly from the acquisition.

We welcomed the addition of the Business Fitness NZ team and products to Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting in August 2011. This acquisition was a strategic move that has seen the complementary strengths of our premier content resources and best-of-breed solutions and service offerings give New Zealand-based accounting firms significant opportunities to increase their profitability and performance to global best practice levels, Evans said.

Business Fitness NZ General Manager Julie Benton said the acquisition demonstrated a clear commitment by CCH to invest in leading New Zealand Intellectual Property and has built on the strengths of both organisations, as well as enhancing the companys services to clients. She said the team of six at Business Fitness NZ is closer to its clients than ever before.

Most of the clients we first signed 10 years ago are still our clients to this day. We hear from some clients every week, and some we never hear from unless circumstances are dire. They are always welcome to pick up the phone and call us whether its with a problem, a great idea, or just to chat, Benton said.

The Business Fitness NZ journey has seen many highlights. The growth of the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly benchmarking survey the biggest, most comprehensive benchmarking survey of the New Zealand accounting industry, The Accountants Big Day Out, the launch of its prized Client Development Centre to provide clients with the training and support that they need to get the most out of Business Fitness NZs Content Solution not to mention several babies, marriage proposals and fellowships.

Having said that, our biggest achievement has been the countless relationships weve formed with the 400+ firms whove joined the Business Fitness NZ party. Theyre a clever, proactive bunch who keep us on our toes. They also give us the support, knowledge and direction we need to keep on delivering what we do best.

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NEW YORK: Despite the brave new workout world of streaming videos and smartphone exercise apps, the old-fangled fitness DVD has never been in better shape.

As people seek to live healthier, it remains the go-to workout aid for many who like their exercise accessible, inexpensive and private, according to a recent report.

“Consumers are getting more and more advice from doctors to exercise,” said Agata Kaczanowska, industry analyst for IBIS, which conducted a market research study of the $264 million-dollar fitness DVD industry.

Nearly one-third of Americans who visited a health care professional in 2010 were advised to exercise, she explained. “And a lot of these first-time workout people are uncomfortable going to gym or working out in public.”

So while movie DVDs are generally considered to be on life support, IBIS found that fitness DVD production revenue climbed at an 11.2 percent annualized pace in the five years to 2012.

The report, which gathers information from market trends, industry sources and government figures forecasts that the industry will grow 9.8 percent in the next five years.

Kaczanowska said 18- to 34-year-olds account for a healthy 35 percent of fitness DVD sales, followed by 35- to 50-year-olds at 33 percent. People 55 and over account for 20 percent.

The industry is even beginning to target childhood fitness.

“With the focus on childhood obesity, there’s a push for parents to convince their children to exercise more, so I really do see that picking up as a trend,” she said.

Inexpensive and widely available, fitness DVDs thrived in the recession. Kaczanowska expects them to weather the recovery well, despite increased competition, because the number of people told to exercise will increase.

“There will be growth in the symbiotic relationships between online viewers and DVD exercisers,” she said. “A lot of companies are using online videos to promote their DVDs.”

Jill Ross, co-owner of Collage Video, has been marketing fitness DVDs to consumers for 25 years. She said even when DVD technology was on its way in, fitness customers were among the last to embrace it.

“Women and men who use fitness DVDs tend to have a large library of them,” she explained. “They typically rotate a dozen over the course of a couple of weeks.”

Those people, she said, are more likely to stick with the same format. And why change when the exercise offerings are forever expanding?

“Whatever you’re interested in, whether it’s classical barre or intense cardio, there’s a DVD,” she said, along with an instructor to suit every taste.

“Jillian Michaels [former trainer on TV’s “Biggest Loser] is pretty intense. She shouts at people, but they like her,” Ross said. “Leslie Sansone is more of a girl-next-door type. She does walking programs: two, three-mile walks, and people will buy every one of them.”

Currently selling well, Ross said, is anything with ballet in it, interval workouts, that combine aerobics and toning, and interval workouts alternating short segments of time.

Ross said while manufacturers maintain high standards, some videos are still produced without sufficient thought to their home market; missteps can range from doing complicated moves with little or no instruction to traveling 12 meters across a gym floor.

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Despite the brave new workout world of streaming videos and smart phone exercise apps, the old-fangled fitness DVD has never been in better shape.

As people seek to live healthier, it remains the go-to workout aid for many who like their exercise accessible, inexpensive and private, according to a recent report.

"Consumers are getting more and more advice from doctors to exercise," said Agata Kaczanowska, industry analyst for IBIS, which conducted a market research study of the $264 million-dollar fitness DVD industry.

Nearly one-third of Americans who visited a healthcare professional in 2010 were advised to exercise, she explained.

"And a lot of these first-time workout people are uncomfortable going to gym or working out in public."

So while movie DVDs are generally considered to be on life support, IBIS found that fitness DVD production revenue climbed at an 11.2 percent annualized pace in the five years to 2012.

The report, which gathers information from market trends, industry sources and government figures forecasts that the industry will grow 9.8 percent in the next five years.

Kaczanowska said 18 to 34 year-olds account for a healthy 35 percent of fitness DVD sales, followed by 35 to 50 year-olds at 33 percent. People 55 and over account for 20 percent.

The industry is even beginning to target childhood fitness.

"With the focus on childhood obesity, there's a push for parents to convince their children to exercise more, so I really do see that picking up as a trend," she said.

Inexpensive and widely available, fitness DVDs thrived in the recession. Kaczanowska expects them to weather the recovery well, despite increased competition, because the number of people told to exercise will increase.

"There will be growth in the symbiotic relationships between online viewers and DVD exercisers," she said. "A lot of companies are using online videos to promote their DVDs."

Jill Ross, co-owner of Collage Video, has been marketing fitness DVDs to consumers for 25 years. She said even when DVD technology was on its way in, fitness customers were among the last to embrace it.

"Women and men who use fitness DVDs tend to have a large library of them," she explained. "They typically rotate a dozen over the course of a couple of weeks."

Those people, she said, are more likely to stick with the same format. And why change when the exercise offerings are forever expanding?

"Whatever you're interested in, whether it's classical barre or intense cardio, there's a DVD," she said, along with an instructor to suit every taste.

"Jillian Michaels (former trainer on TV's "Biggest Loser) is pretty intense. She shouts at people, but they like her," Ross said. "Leslie Sansone is more of a girl-next-door type. She does walking programs: two, three-mile walks, and people will buy every one of them."

Currently selling well, Ross said, is anything with ballet in it, interval workouts, that combine aerobics and toning, and interval workouts alternating short segments of time.

"Women in particular are looking for more dumbbell exercises for bone strength," she said.

Ross said while major manufacturers maintain high standards, some videos are still produced without sufficient thought to their home market; missteps can range from doing complicated moves with little or no instruction to travelling 12 metres across a gym floor.

"How many people do you know who have a 12-metre living room?" she said. "We try not to carry those."

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Boxing classes can offer an adrenalin-pumping work-out.

Fancy throwing off the shackles of the working week with some high-testosterone scrapping?

A growing number of Aussies are saying "no" to the mind-numbing repetition of the treadmill and weights bench, and "yes" to the hardcore fitness benefits of a few rounds in the ring.

It's an adrenalin-pumping work-out that can leave you too breathless to talk and lying spent on the floor at the end of the hour, say enthusiasts.

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In 2009-10, 78,000 Australians were boxing regularly, with a further 215,000 taking part in martial arts training, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' triennial examination of the $2.9 billion fitness market.

Ibisworld senior analyst Ian MacGowan said the popularity of mixed martial arts and boxing classes was surging in Australia, among both men and women.

“There has been a real spike in interest around 'fighting fitness',” MacGowan said. “One of the things we've seen has been a change in product offering, to make classes more readily available to people with a range of skills and fitness levels.”

For those who are keen to discover their inner Mike Tyson, low cost of entry makes the sport cheap to try. Group lessons at specialist boxing gyms cost about $10 and, aside from hand wraps, there's no equipment or special clothes to buy.

Chief among the attractions is the rapid rise in fitness that can result from kicking and punching your way through a couple of one-hour classes a week.

Brisbane Boxing head coach Khuram Nasir said new clients who trained this frequently – and hard – could see significant gains in both fitness and technical skills within a month.

During classes at his boxing gym, rounds of kicking and punching are punctuated with sets of burpees, push-ups and skipping – and those who have time for chit-chat aren't working hard enough.

“If you want to lose weight you can go on a treadmill but there's no one on your back,” Nasir said. “Here, I'm on your back. There's no rest in the hour. You're smashed after it, but for most of them, that's what they want. It's a total body workout and you're acquiring a skill at the same time.”

Forty-three-year-old builder Chris Lawry said the whip-cracking approach was pushing him to regain the fitness he enjoyed in his younger days playing football and cricket, before the demands of work and a young family took precedence.

“I'm not overweight but I have a bit of a belly I want to get rid of,” Lawry said. “I tried to do home fitness and go for a run, but I was not as motivated as with this. It's a good solid workout and you're left on the floor in a pile of sweat at the end.”

While Nasir was adamant that competitive male egos were best left in the locker room, Lawry said competition within the group was an additional spur.

“If you're standing next to a guy who's punching hard and looking great, it lifts your game a bit.”

It's not only men who enjoy the stress release and endorphin rush of pounding a punching bag or shielding more vigorously than the next person.

At Boxing Works, in Darlinghurst, half the 500 regular clients are female, with many women looking to improve their self-defence skills along with their fitness.

Boxing Works founder Larry Papadopolous said women found the atmosphere of the boxing studio less intimidating than the regular gym, in part because of what it did not have: “no major weights area and no mirrors”.

The chance to burn 600 calories in a session – a similar level to that delivered by an hour's run, with a muscular workout thrown in for free – is also appealing to women.

As is the sort of body that can result.

“Boxing gives you a lean and strong physique,” Papadopolous said. “It's about keeping your weight down and becoming lean and ripped like a race horse.”

And because it's low-impact, those whose racing days are over can still keep donning the gloves, long past the time shin splints and knee injuries have forced their retirement from the running track.

“Fighting in the ring is a young man's game, but boxing for general fitness can be a lifelong thing,” Nasir said.

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The Rundown:

The lifeguard at the beach, the kickboxing instructor at the gym, Deputy Director Leslie Knope on NBC's Parks and Recreation—these three people work in occupations that might seem varied, but share commonalities. Primarily, they're the people who work hard to help us while we're at play. And to do their job well, they must learn to interact with a kaleidoscope of people (particularly Knope) and master thinking quickly on their feet (literally, in the case of the kickboxer). The scope of professions that could be classified as recreation and fitness include camp counselors who supervise children's and teenagers' participation in a spectrum of outdoor activities, leaders of before- and after-school care programs in public schools, and aerobics instructors in a community gymnasium. These professions also share another characteristic: They could make a nice fit for someone requiring a flexible schedule. Many people employed in these positions only work seasonally or part-time.

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The Outlook:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the number of recreation and fitness workers should grow by 21.1 percent in the next several years, adding more than 120,000 new positions. Specifically, there should be approximately 60,400 new fitness trainers and aerobics instructors by the year 2020, and 64,300 new recreation workers.

Money:

In 2010, fitness trainers and aerobics instructors made an average salary of $31,090. Camp directors and directors of recreation programs made a slightly lower median salary of $22,260. The best-compensated in the field earned approximately $63,400, and the lowest-paid 10 percent earned approximately $17,070. The best-paying metropolitan areas for these workers include Corvallis, Ore., New York City, and Framingham, Mass.

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Recreation and Fitness Worker Salary Range:

75th Percentile Wage: $46,130

Median Wage: $31,090

25th Percentile Wage: $19,870

Education and Preparation:

"A common misconception about [fitness instructors] is that you need experience to get certified," says Charles Krautblatt, chief executive officer of the International Fitness Association. "It's the other way around. You get certified, and then you train for practical experience." Training varies by the specific type of fitness in which you choose to specialize. For example, a Pilates instructor would need to complete approximately 200 hours in method training workshops. A personal trainer would most likely shadow someone more experienced until they were qualified to train clients one-on-one. Prerequisites for recreation workers like camp counselors, camp directors, and the directors of recreation programs also vary. Those on the managerial level need to have at least an associate's degree in a field related to parks and recreation, and they might also need to sit for a certification exam with the National Recreation and Park Association.

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On Landing a Recreation and Fitness Worker Job:

Instructors usually audition to work in a fitness facility by leading a segment of a class. Krautblatt says hiring managers are looking for two things during that try-out. "Of course they're looking for technique—the mechanics of staying on the beat and knowing the top of the phrase," he says. "But they're also looking for personality. You can't act like a stone—you're supposed to be having a good time. You've got to be a little bit of a performer."

What is a Recreation and Fitness Worker Job Like?

The director of a recreation and parks program might work 40 hours from Monday through Friday, while a yoga instructor could teach classes every other day. A camp counselor might only moonlight in that position a few weeks each the summer; the rest of the year, he or she might pay the bills working as an insurance agent . The spectrum of work environments is just as diverse; some workers stay active while on campgrounds and around pools, fitness instructors keep their heart racing during class-time in a gymnasium, and directors manage the logistics of how recreation facilities run while mostly sitting behind a desk.

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MONDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Apparently there's no guarantee that your kids will mend their couch-potato ways if you give them a fitness video game.

A new study found no differences in physical activity over a three-month period between a group of children given "active" video games that simulated boxing and dancing, for example, and a group given "non-active" video games.

Fitness video games had been tested in laboratory settings, according to the study published online Feb. 27 in the journal Pediatrics, but it was unclear whether games ramped up physical activity at home, where kids can make their own choices about how much and how intensely they want to play.

"We were interested in seeing what the effect of getting a new video game had on the physical activity of children in the home setting, under naturalistic circumstances," said study author Dr. Tom Baranowski, a professor of pediatrics in the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

The scientists followed 78 children between the ages of 9 and 12, and gave each a new Wii video game console. None had owned one before. Half were invited to choose from a selection of five active fitness-focused games such as Wii Fit Plus, while the other half chose from inactive games, including Mario Kart Wii. The youngsters received needed accessories including balance boards, remote controllers and resistance bands.

Baranowski said letting the children chose their own games was important, and they were given an opportunity to select one at the start and then another new one after six weeks. "We wanted to be sure they were getting something they wanted and we weren't foisting one on them," he said.

To measure physical activity, each participant wore an accelerometer, an electronic device attached to a belt at the waist that tracks movement. The belt could be taken off only when swimming or bathing, and the children kept a journal of when they removed it. The authors said compliance was high because the youngsters wanted to keep their Wii consoles.

Baranowski said they expected that starting at week one there would be a substantial increase in physical activity in the group that played the active games, but not in the inactive game group. They expected another surge after the children chose their second new game midway through the study. No increase in physical activity occurred, though.

"By week six, we thought physical activity would taper off, and that in the seventh week, when they got to chose a new, second video game, that there might be an increase in activity. We expected the active video games would have a modest gain across these periods. But we found there was no difference in the level of the activity between the treatment and control groups. What we detected at baseline, before playing active video games, was exactly the same in weeks one, six, seven and 12," Baranowski said.

The authors theorize that the children either didn't chose to play their active games at the same intensity level that occurred in the previous lab studies, or perhaps the children compensated by being less active at other times during the day.

An outside expert said the study was interesting.

"You'd think that the kids who are playing these games would be burning more calories, but I think the nature of the games is not the same as going out and interacting. It doesn't directly encourage kids to go out and exercise," said Dr. Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has studied and written about the impact of technology on children and adults.

"Wii Fit is not made to get kids to exercise, it's to sell games. Maybe they need to design the games differently, to really get kids to move more," Small said.

Children's Hospital Colorado pediatrician Dr. Christina Suh, who has conducted research on physical activity in overweight and obese children, said it's not encouraging news in terms of using the fitness video games as a tool for tackling the increasing problem of childhood obesity.

"The take-home message is that on a population basis, it looks like using active video games is not an effective way of getting kids to be more active. In other words, if someone thinks of passing out Wii fitness consoles to kids in a public school district, for example, it probably wouldn't be effective in terms of its impact on public health," Suh said.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children get at least one hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity a day, like jump-roping, riding a bike and playing tag, she noted.

"As a pediatrician, when you're prescribing physical activity for a kid to prevent them from becoming overweight, or as a treatment program for obesity, you have to really make that prescription individualized. The key is figuring out what's really fun for that child," Suh said.

She said it's somewhat counterintuitive to recommend children get their daily physical activity from video games.

"It muddles the message pediatricians give to get outside. My feeling is if you're going to be physically active, it makes more sense to play tennis with a family member outdoors than on a video game inside. A tennis racquet and some balls would much cheaper than a video game console, too," Suh said.

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Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to see how much physical activity children need.

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