I’ve never been very fit in my life. Sports never really appealed to me, gyms make me very uncomfortable, and other workouts I would try, such as walking on my parents’ treadmill at home or following ...

It’s a win-win for parents and kids: if you’re having trouble convincing your kids to follow the government’s advice to get moving, a new study suggests you can just leave them alone with their video ...

Nov. 17 -- MONDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- The amount of energy adults expend playing active video games may equal that of moderate-intensity exercise, according to a new study. Japanese ...

It wasn’t so long ago that researchers reported that letting kids play video games — active “exergames,” that is — could help them burn energy. Now the latest study shows … maybe not so much. The ...

A home-based virtual reality rehabilitation intervention improved frailty scores, a new study shows. Researchers evaluated a virtual reality technology for rehabilitation in 70 prefrail and frail ...

Studies have shown that exercise video games, or exergames, can benefit elderly people who sometimes have trouble getting enough daily physical activity. But few studies have dealt with the question ...

The late film critic Roger Ebert famously declared that video games could never be art, much to the outrage of die-hard gamers everywhere. While the artistic value of classics like Portal or Doom ...

Mat Fraser has won the CrossFit Games more times than any other male athlete – five, to be exact. Given this is a competition to find the ‘fittest on earth’, many have dubbed him ‘the fittest man in ...