健身新世代:燃烧脂肪,快意游戏

寒假缺乏运动,春节大鱼大肉,但是一想到干巴巴的健身锻炼就没劲儿?或者最近在美国火爆起来的健身游戏就是我们这些“游戏世代”的福音哦!

If gamers want to make this flight simulator[模拟器] move faster, they’re gonna have to push themselves harder. Called “active gaming” or “exergaming,” it’s the latest craze to get people off the couch and onto the bicycle.

Gym Member A: I love it. I jumped on it for five minutes and I was hooked[上瘾]. I was starting…I enjoy that you forget

that you’re working out, and you’re just playing a video game. By the time you get off your machine, you’re

soaking[湿透] wet and you’ve finished your workout.

But it’s the lack of physical workouts that have

contributed to a three-fold increase in childhood obesity[肥胖] over the past three decades.

Gym Member B: Everybody, all…like I…my girlfriends that they play video games all the time, and they play video games over working out, like, they’ll choose video games, you know, so…

Changing that lifestyle is one of the goals behind the Active Gaming Association. They see it as a targeted

approach to a growing problem.

Ryan Dean Hoggan (AGA): In children eight to eighteen, on average that demographic[人口统计学的] spends over 68 minutes per day gaming. That means that the new…the new trends, the new groups coming up through the ranks, they’re very geared towards[适应于] gaming, and that’s

gonna be important in fighting child obesity going forward.

Motivation and engagement are often seen as key to a successful workout, and for fitness trainers like Eric Fleishman, exergaming offers both.

Fleishman: The problem is that people find themselves really bored and really tortured on these machines. So whether I have an old-fashioned treadmill[跑步机] that just goes straight, or I have a treadmill with lots of flashing lights, that time spent on the treadmill still feels like you’re

waiting for cookies to cook. It just takes forever, so

every minute seems like an hour. With this device, it’s very

different because you’re so distracted and it’s so

engaging that the time flies by. I think the exercise will go much smoother for most people.

The Dogfight Fitness Flight Simulator is just one of the workout games being rolled out in gyms across the country. Expect to see more in the coming years.

如果玩家想让这台飞行模拟器速度更快,他们就得加倍挑战自我才行。这股被称作“运动游戏”的新风潮将人们从沙发上拉起来,推到健身单车上去。

健身房会员甲:我喜欢这玩意儿。我跳上去玩了五分钟就爱上它了。我开始……我喜欢的是你忘记了自己是在锻炼,而是在打电视游戏似的。等你从机器上下来,你已经浑身湿透,而且完成了训练项目。

而正是身体锻炼不足导致(美国)儿童肥胖人数在过去30年内翻了三番。

健身房会员乙:每个人,所有人……例如我……我的女性朋友们也经常打游戏。比起健身锻炼,她们更喜欢打游戏,我的意思是,她们宁愿打游戏,你知道,

所以……

改变这种生活方式正是美国运动游戏协会的目标之一。面对(儿童肥胖)这个日渐严峻的问题,他们认为这才是对症下药的

办法。

瑞安・迪安・霍根(运动游戏协会):在8至18岁的青少年中,根据人口统计的数据显示,平均每人每天花在游戏上的时间为68分钟。那意味着这是……新的潮流,新一代人已经习惯了打游戏,而这将是控制儿童肥胖情况恶化的重要因素。

积极性和参与度通常被视为健身成败的关键,而对于埃里克・弗莱施曼这样的健身教练来说,运动游戏可以同时提供这两种动力。

弗莱施曼:(现在的)问题是人们在健身机上觉得既无聊又受罪。因此,无论是一味前进的旧式跑步机,还是有很多闪烁小灯的跑步机,你在上面锻炼的感觉还是像在等曲奇饼烤好似的,了了无期,每一分钟都像一个小时那么漫长。而这款新设备就很不一样,因为你的注意力被分散了,而且全情投入,时间飞逝也浑然不觉。我想这样会让大部分人的锻炼更为顺畅。

《空战健身模拟飞行》只是其中一款登陆全美多家健身房的健身游戏,预计未来几年将出现更多类似游戏。