When it comes to getting in shape, your four legged friend may hold the answer to improving your fitness. A unique European study into the walking regimes of dogs and their owners by Nintendo DS game Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine? and The Kennel Club has revealed that dog owners walk 9.27km a day - nearly twice as far as non-dog owners.
Luke Pyper writes: "Their list of 3DS favourites is a good sign of how they like to spend their time. Any successful exercise routine needs to fit in with their existing lifestyle and preferences if they are going to have a chance of sticking to it in the long term."
"I'll be interested to see what exercise games are created for the 3DS. While there were a few I tried on the DS there were largely just instructional rather than incentivising the fitness routine with actual gameplay rewards."
RM writes: "2009 is most certainly the year where the fitness game begins to gain a little maturity and – given the success of Wii Fit – Nintendo are more than happy to ride that cash piñata for as long as they can. Their latest offering is Walk With Me, a package that monitors how many steps you take on a daily basis."
TGS writes: "If you'd told me back in the good old days, when my eyes were glued to A Link To The Past on the SNES that 15 years later, Nintendo would be plugging titles that encouraged a healthy lifestyle and walking routine, you'd forgive me for calling you some sort of madman.Yet here I am 2009 walking around with a pedometer in my pocket."
