Calorie counts: Playing Wii vs. actual sport

Date Published: Jul 28 2009

Calorie counts for 30 minutes of playing Wii versus the actual sport.

	Wii	Sport
Golf	93	117
Bowlling	117	216
Baseball	135	219
Tennis	159	243
Boxing	216	306

Source: University of Wisconsin at La Crosse and the American Council on Exercise

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