Everyday, we’ve discussed ways and efforts to make exercising more fun. Everyday we try to motivate ourselves to workout. And now, Nintendo is going to train you to get out and use those two limbs. Today,I read a nice article over at the Washington Post. Mike Musgrove writes on the new Nintendo DS game titled "Personal Trainer: Walking". Apparently, Nintendo created a walking game by tying a pedometer to a software that runs on the DS. Players can download their pedometer data to the DS and it tracks statistics, compares your daily distances walked with your friends’ records and many others. It works like a walking journal where you can track how much you've walked by keeping your pedometer with you. Besides that, in order to unlock certain levels or goals in the game, you have to earn it by walking...

If you ask me today if “Walking is a game now?”

Yes, walking is a game now. It definitely will encourage people to move more instead of being a couch potato. Besides, it should be fun for the kids! Children will be busy walking to compete with their friends and crack new items in the game. Maybe this is our solution to stop or at least reduce obesity of future generations. And for this, I salute Nintendo for taking the effort to harmonize physical activity with video games in many creative ways. What do you think?