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Using popular games to encourage people to become more active.
With technology advancing at a rapid rate, it’s no wonder that more and more people are spending time in front of some screen or another. What will encourage people to become active again?
One way would be to make actual events similar to popular games. Zombies have been extremely popular the last few years and one perfect example I’ve recently seen is Run For Your Lives 5K (http://www.runforyourlives.com/). In this 5K they recruit both zombies and those who will be running from them. Now I’ve yet to ever participate in any type of marathon event, but this really caught my interest.
It has me thinking about what other fads would possibly encourage people to get out of the virtual world, and how we can bring that those scenarios to life?
If gaming companies would be willing to sponsor more active events I believe this would increase their popularity.
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Louis Ades
First, why should I be active? Why shouldn't I stay home all day and play video games? This has to be taught to children in school from a young age.
Second, once I recognize the importance of being active, how do I discipline myself to exercise consistently? This is the much harder question. The answer to this is different for every person. For most people, there is an internal battle to convince oneself to get up and exercise when they don't want to. But the one way that I think that people would actually exercise consistently is if they're trained to do so from a young age.
So to conclude, I think that your ideas are awesome and they should should still be acted upon. But will any of these inspiring events make any real change? Unfortunately, no.