I just had one of the best workouts of my life today. During the black Friday sale, I picked up a Dance Dance Revolution game for our Playstation at Best Buy. It's the videogame where you have a dance pad and you follow the arrows with your feet. I have always thought it looked like fun.

If any of you have Playstations and like to dance, I suggest that you go out and buy this. It's a ton of fun. I finally stopped playing after about 1 1/2 hours (only because I no longer had energy to move my legs!)

It also has a workout mode where you can track your workouts and it tells you how many calories you are burning, etc.

It's kinda hard to explain,but here is a description that I found online:

Dance Dance Revolution, or DDR (known as Dancing Stage in Europe), is a music video game series produced by Konami. It was introduced to Japanese video arcades in 1998, after being shown at the Tokyo Game Show earlier that year. Since then, the game has gained significant popularity elsewhere in the world, including large portions of North America and Europe. As of 2005, over 90 official versions have been produced, including those for home video game consoles. The Dance Dance Revolution series is a subset of the larger Bemani series of music games.

The game is typically played on a dance pad with four arrow panels: up, down, left, and right. These panels are pressed using the player's feet, in response to arrows that appear on the screen in front of the player. The arrows are synchronized to the general rhythm or beat of a chosen song, and success is dependent on the player's ability to time his or her steps accordingly.

I've seen this game at arcades and movie theatres and thought it looks like a ton of fun, but I've never been gutsy enough to try it out in public even though I'm in pretty good shape. I just don't like the mental picture of my fat bouncing all over the place. Good to know you can get an at home version, too bad I don't have a PlayStation. Maybe it's time for a trip to the electronics store....

We don't have PlayStation either. Do they make something like that to plug into the TV without the PlayStation? Any ideas or recommendations? Sounds like fun and a great workout!

I think I saw something like it in another advertisement that didn't look like it required a game station. I'll try to find it and post more info if I can.

I did a little research on the net, and apparently lots of people are using video games for fitness.

http://www.getupmove.com/about.asp

There is also a p.c. based game at http://www.stepmania.com/stepmania/

I think that if they had some way of easily hooking up our video games to excersize equipment they would have a gold mine. Maybe if I can figure out how to hook up a recumpant bike to a PC... (I play PC games )

DH is dying to get this game, we've heard so much about it. I'm glad you enjoyed it, I'll have to remind him