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]
