the benefits of exertainment

Whether you are a school, a leisure facility, a private club or even a professional football club, interactive fitness has a place sitting alongside conventional equipment. The reason for this is simple – interactive fitness
adds fun back into exercise and for many people this is the element that has been sadly lacking for a long
time. Kids relish the opportunity to put their skills to the test on a larger scale and adults enjoy the challenge
of keeping up with the kids.

FOR SCHOOLS
it helps to re-engage children with fitness where traditional forms of physical education have
sidelined them.

FOR LEISURE FACILITIES
it can offer a new revenue stream to sit alongside traditional gyms.

FOR PROFESSIONAL SPORTS MEN & WOMEN
interactive fitness systems can help with a variety of training methods including improving mental agility and reaction times.

keeping premiership
goalkeepers active

Premiership football club, Manchester City, were looking for innovative new tools to help train their goalkeepers and aid in the rehabilitation of players in general.

Pulse approached them with the interactive wall as a way of helping to sharpen goalkeepers reaction times, aid cardiovascular fitness and provide an interesting and new way to rehabilitate players with injury. The interactive wall can be set to a number of different training programmes, each of which has a role to play in the training of professional sports people.

As reactions are one of the key requirements of a goalkeeper, the area that was of particular interest to Manchester City Football Club was the range of choices available on the interactive wall. Paul Shinners, Commercial Director at Pulse Fitness and a former professional footballer said,

Dance Machine’s virtual league provided the ideal inter-school competition to engage teenagers

Dave Bullock, the partnership development manager for Somerset School Sports Partnership, was looking for a solution to help engage with children who were turned off by traditional forms of exercise. They knew that the main target for this activity was teenage girls and started to search the market to see what solutions might be available to them.

Dance Machine was identified as offering the right type of solution – a form of exercise that was fun, popular and already known to many of the students due to the
presence of dance games in arcades and for home use. Initially four systems were purchased for four different schools. Once the schools demonstrated the success of the system an additional 5 more systems were purchased.

“Dance Machine is great – the kids don’t even realise that they are exercising,” comments Dave Bullock. “It was obvious to us that this is a system that anyone can use, whatever their level, to raise heart rates and improve physical health.”

The system grew in popularity and was soon being used in the breakfast club to improve attendance and during lunch breaks to help improve student behaviour. “Dance Machine is a great incentive for students. Because it is suitable for both boys and girls and all age ranges it provides us with a new tool to help encourage children to attend classes and behave.”