Aug 07 2008
Gym Offers Wii Personal Training for a Mere $110 per Hour
When played the way that Nintendo has designed them to be played, both Wii Sports and Wii Fit do a rather good job at getting gamers and soccer moms alike active and off of the couch. While several gyms around the nation have tried to mooch upon the Wii’s popularity and have added in the console amongst their treadmills and dumbbells, one Manhattan gym is taking this trend a step further.
According to an article from the New York Post, the Gravity Fitness Gym is offering members a one-on-one session with a personal trainer and a Wii console for $110 per hour. According to personal trainer Dorothy Evans:
You’d be surprised. It may have little to do with the real sports, but we get people’s heart rates up to 140 to 150 beats per minute - although some of that may just be the excitement of the game.
Either it’s that, or it’s simply a side effect of mental stress when they realize that after about two and a half hours they could have just bought a new console for themselves. Take your pick.
While the Wii continues to enjoy reccord-shattering sales around the world, Nintendo, as expected, is already working on the Wii’s next-gen successor. Considering that Nintendo opted for a more revolutionary user-interface instead of enhanced graphical capabilities for the Wii, one might suspect something similar from Nintendo for its next console. However, according to a recent Forbes interview with president Satoru Iwata, “Wii 2″ might not bring as many new ideas to the table as we had previously thought.
