In January, I had pointed out that companies were promoting “Exertainment” as a way to get kids to play video games to get in shape.

Seemed like a very odd pairing to me. Most parents would probably rather see the kids turn off the game and go outside to play, or get involved in sports.

A new study is underway to see how exertainment will really help.

“It improves cardiovascular health as well as eye-hand coordination,” Lambert said. “Kids who don’t like other things bloom on this. If they don’t like basketball, jumping rope or ball activities, they like this.”

The article says that it’s been showing promising results with some of the initial subjects. Great!

I wonder if people will get bored with it after a while. I wonder why kids don’t like other things like basketball, jumping rope, and other outdoor activities. Perhaps more needs to be done with children to get them to enjoy these outdoor activities more.

What kinds of things do you do to encourage your kids getting outside and playing? Do you push them out the door, or do you get outside with them? Maybe parents need to get outside to play more too!