Does it feel unusual to be a health expert advocating a video game?
Actually, it does. To be honest with you, if you’ve ever seen one of my speeches I’m pretty brutal on the television and the computer. They’ve made us stop moving as a culture, and it’s been a detriment to our fitness, especially for this generation coming up. But this company, EA Sports, contacted me and they set up a meeting. I didn’t know what to expect, I’m not a tech person or a gamer. Then I got to look and try out some of the exercises and a lot of them were things that you would try to get your clients to do, it really opened up my eyes. How does it compare to other fitness video games? I haven’t played a lot of them, but I did get a chance to try the first-generation ones and, you know, you’re not really moving, you’re doing yoga or a beach volleyball type of thing. I don’t know how satisfying they really are. But I was really blown away by these exercises in “Sports Active.” I was sweating, and my legs were burning. How much hands-on involvement did you have with the game? I
