Hey geekchick, have you seen this?

[pat]

DDR as exercise regime.

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Brag brag brag

[daltong.livejournal.com]

rlpowell has been using DDR for exercise for over a year. He passed a 9-foot this weekend. He's so good that sometimes he gets applause from onlookers (he prefers to use public machines, though he built his own DDR machine himself last summer).

[bdot.livejournal.com]

i have friends who have been using this game as their primary source of excercise for several years now....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

One LJ friend of mine claims that the worst thing about this is the knee trouble he developed about two years after he started exercising this way.

[firecat]

I like it as an exercise method myself. I could have done without the weight loss emphasis in the article - I had to read all the way down to the end before seeing a grudging mention of the health benefits of exercise by itself separate from weight loss.

[worldmage.livejournal.com]

Would the universe please get out of my head!? I was just pondering this last night. I've been considering going back to it as a source of excercise. The only problem would be prying my father away from the TV long enough that I could actually DO it. :P

[geekchick]

Yeah, I saw it earlier today. The game even comes with a workout mode that lets you track things like time spent and calories burned (if you want) over an individual session or cumulatively. The biggest problem I have with it is that it's hardly low-impact, and it's caused my knees to ache a few times (although laying off for a few days seems to make any pain go away). It's a good workout.