Gymkids busts out Step2Play, frustrates lazy children

While it's no surprise that children are gaining weight at an alarming rate these days, there's always the Dance Dance Revolution workout or the entirely more evil MealpayPlus route, but now Gymplay is offering up a fitness-based middleman to keep kids' heart rates up while gaming away. Crafted solely for Sony's now antiquated PlayStation console, the appendage acts as a liaison between the controller and your system, requiring the child (or adult, actually) to continually exercise at an "adjustable rate" determined by the lieutenant parent in charge. The Step2Play will only allow the controller to function if the youngster onboard is keeping those paddles moving at a satisfactory pace, and supposedly targets the "calf and leg muscles" -- but we can envision a good bit of hostility being created when little Johnny finds this accessory waiting under the tree. Although we can't imagine any sane child enjoying this torment as much as the (presumably staged) children are in the photo above, you can give your offspring the gift of motivation for a staggering £115 ($218).

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[John C. Randolph @ Nov 6th 2006 6:08PM]

Oh, this will work perfectly, because kids can't figure out how to unplug it and just use the controllers normally, right?

Give me a a break.

-jcr

[Zeke @ Nov 6th 2006 6:17PM]

The pic shows it in a PS2. And the kids are smiling. Obviously faked image.

...I, for one, welcome our future StairMaster-stomping overlords.

[CharlieX @ Nov 6th 2006 6:17PM]

Parents should have an option to 1) turn the Wiimote to ultra-insensitive so Fatty Jr. has to really whip that thing around and 2) quit feeding the little monster so much high fructose corn syrup.

[lpret @ Nov 6th 2006 7:09PM]

The first thing I thought was that someone's little brother is going to get quite the workout. Kids will just force the little guy to work that much harder to be able to hang out with the "big kids."

[boynamedsue @ Nov 6th 2006 7:29PM]

yeah. cause nothing makes beating those hard levels easier than having to be in constant motion while you do it.

[tokataro @ Nov 16th 2006 12:20PM]

Yeah, the motion on a stairmaster is just way too jerky. I used to play xbox while on my stationary bike though, and it really makes the time go by a lot faster. Works best with slower-paced stuff like Jade Empire or KOTOR.

[Flalex @ Nov 6th 2006 7:35PM]

Hmmm you could shell out $218 per controller, or you could save money and feed you kids less. What'll it be?

[Eh @ Nov 6th 2006 8:49PM]

pwned!

[David Schloss @ Nov 6th 2006 9:33PM]

Here's a cool controller parents can try, I call it the "stepoutside" controller.

Parents purchase the controller, open the box and then WALK OVER TO THE F****** TV AND TURN IT OFF, and force their kids to go outside.

Jesus man. We have to spend money to make kids play games on stairclimbers because they're fat. Way to address the symptom not the problem.

[a mom @ Nov 6th 2006 11:43PM]

kids would love it. for about 5 minutes. maybe half an hour, tops.

Also keep in mind, kids like trampolines, they like those excercise balls, they like exercise bikes and treadmills (I've seen exercise equipment get used more by kids than the adults who purchased it for themselves). kids, at the age of those pictured, are in constant motion (and don't need this contraption to keep it).

[tokyo_neko @ Nov 7th 2006 12:30AM]

Now the little ones can relive their favorite Cop scenes from GTA... running away!

[Curator of the PlayStation Museum @ Nov 7th 2006 6:05PM]

This concept is old. A Stepper was released for the PSone in Japan years ago with games to take advantage of it. For instance, how about jogging through Hawaii? Visit The PlayStation Musuem this week for pics. I'll have them posted there.

[Cornelis Droog @ Jan 12th 2007 3:02PM]

Are Your Children or Grandchildren, Kids/Goats?

We really should try to speak like we love GOD and all HIS Creation, especially HIS Children.

In Strong's Hebrew and Greek Concordances: His Children

On your website on Internet we see the words Kid/Kids , if we looked at the language of the Bible we see Goats.

In Strong's Concordance the Old Testament Hebrew word Kid is Strong's number ryes sa’iyr of res sa’ir, bn, zn from TWOT-2274c, 2274e KJV - Kid 28, Goat 24, Devil 2, Satyr 2, Hairy 2, Rough 1.

In the New Testament Greek we see Kid used once. In Luke 15:29 it is also defined in Strong's Concordance number as Goat.

We read in Matthew 25:31-32: When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep [His Children] from the goats : And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Mark 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues [the language of God’s word, the Bible].

Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues*, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

* not the language of the world.

Let God be Magnified!

In Christian love,
Sincerely,

[Tom Kuckla @ Jan 15th 2007 2:29PM]

Thank you for this information. We really should try to speak like we love GOD and all HIS Creation, especially HIS Children.

Proverbs 8:6-9 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

Praise GOD for HIS WORD!!!

[a concerned believer @ Jan 16th 2007 11:18AM]

Are Your Children or Grandchildren, Kids/Goats?

Thanks for sharing that. I hear that word “kid” used so much, I find myself sometimes saying it. But I remembered Brother Tom making an issue of that on one of the trips and I try to catch myself when I say "kid". Now, I really understand why we shouldn't use that for children.

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (1 John 2:18)

[Mick McMullen @ Jan 18th 2007 11:42AM]

Are Your Children or Grandchildren, Kids/Goats?

I must confess that I myself have been guilty of this error in my life. I thank our Lord that you shared this with me and that I too, by His mercy, will be able to make this correction.

Our Lord is doing a mighty work in these last days*. I marvel that He tells us in Matthew 24:21 that there is a great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world. But at the same time He also tells us in Matthew 24:37-38 that the world will not perceive of this great overturning (Ezekiel 21:27, I Corinthians 1:27-31). I pray that He will give us wisdom to keep us humble in these last days*. We must glory in Him and know that it is all of His work and we are but unprofitable servants doing that which is our duty (Luke 17:10).

* Time Has an End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 B.C. – 2011 A.D.
A book by Harold Camping.
This book is freely available through Family Radio: www.familyradio.com

[kyle @ Jan 29th 2007 5:48PM]

what the shit?