Swat Rock Interactive Gym

There is a third product in this saga of the virtual fitness world. The Clifton Leisure Centre, is currently offering the Swat Rock Interactive Gym application. Unlike the others, it is not yet available for you to have it in the comfort of your own home. It invloves playing phyiscally challenging games under the watchful eye of a qualified instructor.

It consists of 8 dance mats, two game walls and a specially modified PS3 on which you play things like racing games, but without using your thumbs as is the norm with traditional console controllers, you use your entire upper body to steer the car.

The programme follows a conventional method of training, e.g. startin with a warm up then completing the main activities, taking breaks and cooling down at the end. however the activities consist of things like, 15 minutes on the dance mat, then throwing bean bags at the game wall in correspondance with the flashing coloured lights.

this revelutionary technology not only helps you with your general fitness in a fun hearty environment, but it works to improve factors such as your co-ordination and balance. Those who take part in the programme swear by it and say that when they come out they feel as if they have done a full gym workout.