New York Gym Offering Nintendo Wii Workouts for $110 Per Hour
According to the New York Post, Gravity Fitness at New York's Le Parker Meridien Hotel has mixed Nintendo Wii gameplay into its personal training rotation along with sessions of boxing and weight training. The hotel charges $110-per-hour for its personal trainers, regardless of whether guests are weight-training or, as it turns out, Wii-training. The Wii (which costs just $250 to buy outright) is mixed into a workout routine as a bit of a reward, acting a boost between sessions of more trying things, like real boxing, serving to keep peoples' heart rates up -- 140-t-150 beats-per-minute for some. That's comparable to what you get on a treadmill, and flies in the face of some folks who that playing Wii is not exercise.
Just the same, we'd recommend buying your own and playing from home. It's the economical thing to do, wherever you live. [Source: The New York Post]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Adam Limle @ Aug 6th 2008 2:14PM
Are you serious? First of all this is a MAJOR insult to anyone in the industry or who has ever been into a gym. The girl doing the instruction clearly needs to hit the weights and do A LOT of cardio herself. Any person that would spend $20 per hour with this person let alone $110 is a IDIOT and a SUCKER. You give a bad reputation to anyone making an honest living as an instruction. You should be "criminally prosecuted." The girl being instructed clearly says "this doesn't even feel like a work out at all".
I think there is still time to call the Federal Prosecutors to include her on the recent Gotti indictment.
Katie @ Aug 6th 2008 7:47PM
Wow. Never would I have thought that video games could 'supply a workout' until the Wii came out. Has anyone ever played these games? Unless you spend HOURS playing it, it's hardly a workout at all! And at $110 AN HOUR?!? that's ridiculous! Just go out and buy the stupid game yourself if you want a workout! I go to the gym to get an actual WORKOUT, not a lesson in gaming and controlling your Wii character better. We complain about how unfit we are, and how we need to get off the computer/gaming systems and start /real/ exercise, and yet here we are, going to gyms to make it seem like we're working out, but in reality, we're simply playing more games.
And a note to the trainer, it'd be helpful if you yourself were in better condition. The girl she's training is in better condition!
This is definetly a ridiculous way of getting a workout.
Get over it @ Aug 6th 2008 8:49PM
Yeah, its the USA, not everyones in shape, and for some - a Wii Fit IS a workout, quit b!tching and be happy they aren't sitting on their sofa and eating McDonalds. The whole point of her remark as 'it doesn't feel like a workout' is not because it doesn't raise her heartrate or make her sweat, but because its entertaining as well. If you've ever played it, you would realize its set up for the UNfit, which slowly starts them out so they can build up endurance. Insult? my god, get a life. If someone wants to spend $110 for someone to be there and keep them going 'hard' in their terms, let them. It doesn't hurt you.