8 posts and columns on exercise

Viral Video: Jimmy Fallon Loses to a Lady (The First One)

in Media on February 10 at 12:45 am PT

Bring it on.
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Groupon’s New Year’s Resolution? To Make Money on Yours!

in Commerce on January 6 at 6:30 am PT

One of the hottest daily deal categories for the new year? You guessed it — weight-loss programs and fitness classes.
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Viral Video: Humpilates Hysterical

in News on March 2, 2011 at 8:46 am PT

This mock fitness video by late-night television talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is so funny that it made BoomTown do several spit-takes watching it. It is for a product called “Hottie Body Humpilates,” and includes a bevy of glam Hollywood actresses doing bad things to an exercise ball. Enough said.

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Lights, Camera, Stretch: Viral 2010 for YouTube Japan

in News on December 15, 2010 at 1:36 pm PT

The second most-watched video on YouTube in Japan this year is of an exercise routine. Not just any old exercise routine, though–it’s a take by sportswear maker Reebok on the same one that rules state broadcaster NHK’s airwaves for up to 10 minutes every morning.

Xbox Kinect: Just How Controlling Can a Body Be?

in The Mossberg Solution on November 23, 2010 at 3:26 pm PT

Xbox Kinect does well with games involving more natural gestures and motions, but its games using objects, like a bowling ball, need more work, says Katie.
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Diabetes Meter Mates With PC to Track Trends

in Personal Technology on December 16, 2009 at 6:04 pm PT

Walt Mossberg calls the Contour USB a computer-savvy device that can help diabetics track health trends.
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Keas's Adam Bosworth Speaks About New Health Care Start-Up!

in News on October 7, 2009 at 2:05 pm PT

The former head of Google Health, Adam Bosworth, officially unveiled his much anticipated health-care start-up today at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, showing off a site that will offer step-by-step and personalized “care plans,” as well as many kinds of online tools to better understand the data and tips on how to stay healthy. It’s perfect timing, given the health-care debate now raging in Washington, which is about how people make health-care decisions–or, more precisely, how they usually do not. Here’s a video interview with Bosworth.
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When You Want Your Own Virtual Trainer

in The Mossberg Solution on May 14, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

If you’re looking for a fun way to get in shape, the Balance Board will do the trick. Like the Wii, its activities encourage all sorts of people to use it, marking yet another smart move from Nintendo.
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