Medscape February 24, 2022
Traditionally, if you wanted to try exercise, you could join a gym or jog around the block.
But now, newcomers have yet another high-tech option that’s helping some of them off the couch to move their bodies at home, rather than venturing outside the front door.
I’m the laziest person you will ever meet,” says Amanda Bousfield, 45, of Toronto. “I had no use for exercise. I knew theoretically I had to do it, but I didn’t want to.”
The stay-at-home mom had battled her weight all her life and says she was feeling “broken mentally” when she tried something new about a year ago:
Virtual reality fitness.
Now, she exercises almost every day immersed in a breathtaking virtual reality...