Exergaming Experts

  1. John Ratey – How Exercise can Transform our Schools

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      While exercise is good for the entire body, Dr. John J. Ratey, MD, says it is more important for the brain, especially when it comes to students in schools. Using scientific studies and real life examples, this internationally recognized doctor in the brain-exercise connection demonstrates how we can raise test scores and lower behavioral problems. Learn about how more exercise and exergami…Read More

  2. Adding Exergaming to Your Educator Toolbox – By Dan Lawler, Ph.D.

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      We know, from research, that exercise activates the attention system, increases focus, modulates mood, improves behavior, and enhances memory and learning. Increasingly, schools, and in particular special education programs, are beginning to understand the value of exercise as an intervention. Yet there is still reluctance to allow students time for exercise in the school day, a result of t…Read More

  3. 2016 Exergame Youth Obesity Report

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    Youth Fitness & Childhood Obesity have been two huge focuses of Exergame Fitness since the beginning. It has been awhile since we have touched on this so we put together a short infographic (below) that highlights some of the alarming statistics of childhood obesity in our nation. If you would like to view the full resolution version of the infographic, click here. Take a look at our last Exer…Read More

  4. Another Tool for the Educators’ Toolbox

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    Our great Exergaming friend, Dan Lawler Ph.D. has written another piece of Exergaming. This blog focuses on the Exergaming industry starting to focus more of SPED programs in school districts. We think this is an exciting new direction to bring the industry in, read on and tell us what you think! Another Tool for the Educators’ Toolbox By Dan Lawler, Ph.D. Schools, and especially teachers, provi…Read More

  5. The Power of Vision – Dan Lawler, Ph.D.

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    Dan is great friend in the Exergaming world, he understands its value and pushes for people to see it. One of our more recent installations was at the Estes Park Middle School - their Exercise Learning Center, and Dan explains how it can to be and why. Click here to see our SmugMug photo gallery of the ELC, and click here to see our last blog on the location. The Power of Vision By Dan Lawler, P…Read More

  6. Exergaming: A Tool for Educational Challenges of ADHD

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    By Dan Lawler, PhD “Schools can be an excruciating experience for kids with ADHD,” notes John Ratey, MD, of Harvard Medical School and author of SPARK:  The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain.  It’s not that students with ADHD can’t focus, but that they can’t focus on command.  They are wired differently and working with that physiology can allow their potential for h…Read More

  7. The Science Is Leading Us to Change

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    The brainis the body’s most active organ and thus requires the most energy to functionwell.  The brain is estimated to account for 2% of our body’s weight butuses 20-30% of our body’s energy.  Because the brain doesn’t store oxygenand glucose, it requires the blood stream to provide thenecessary requirements to function well. What’s becoming more and moreevident from the research is t…Read More

  8. Exergame Playground Solution – A Place Of Their Own

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    The next generation of fitness is here; it’s the wearable technology, or the Spivi Virtual Indoor Cycling classes. It’s interactive fitness equipment like Exerbike or iDance or even home fitness like the Nintendo Wii. If the current generation of adults are integrating this much technology into fitness routines, it would only make sense to have a solution on how to introduce the newest age gro…Read More