By Xinhua
Beijing : What a bummer! A study by the British Medical Journal reveals that although the Wii game console offers more activity than passive videogames, Wii tennis is not an exercise substitute for real tennis.
A standard videogame only requires players ;move their thumbs and index fingers playing a standard video game, whereas the Wii actually requires players to move their hand or occasionally their entire arm to interact with the game, but that’s not enough action to break a sweat for most couch potatoes.
For the British Medical Journal study boys and girls between the ages of 13-15 were selected to play both an Xbox 360 game (Project Gotham Racing 3) and Wii games (Wii Sports). Later the Journal would compare calories burned by the kids while playing each of the games.
The Wii used on average 51 percent more energy than playing a sedentary Xbox 360 game. The Wii Sport game Wii Tennis demanded the most energy from study participants with an energy expenditure of 750 kilo joule (a kilo joule is an international system unit for measuring energy). Wii Boxing expended 730kJ and Wii Bowling at 700kJ. By comparison, playing Xbox 360 games had a mean energy expenditure of 450kJ – a measurement just slightly higher than resting (300kJ).