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Caught myself skivvies-clad in my bedroom's full-length mirror while preparing for a LAUNDR-O-MAT visit and said "holy hannah", because suddenly my legs are all skinny and muscular, at least relatively speaking, compared to my flabulous mental image of them. (I usually don't see my lower body in a mirror unless I'm dressed, and I own only long pants.) It was like the mirror scene from Spider-Man. Well... in spirit, anyway.

Seriously, someone has to go invent upper-body DDR right now. OK, this might not be all DDR's doing; I have been walking quite a bit over the past year, since landing my subway-access-only job at the ICCB, and maybe I hadn't paused to note the cumulative effect of the exercise until now. But still.

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Now I'm watchin' the mid-1960s version of The Outer Limits for the first time. This particular episode has a Dr. Tim Leary stand-in in it. (The earlier, cool-academic one, not the hippy-dippy one; that's for Dragnet to handle a few years later.) Neat; this sort of thing is as authentic a reflection of its own zeitgeist as any newsreel, and much more fun to watch. Thanks to rserocki for recommending this show to me.

Also, it vectors that "we only use ten percent of our brains" thing. How old is that piece of foofery? I betcha it dates back to the first mesmerism craze.

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upper body DDR?

[keimel.livejournal.com]

you could hold some weight in your arms as you play DDR... does it require your hands on the controls all the time? Or only periodically when you have to change levels?

Perhaps some light weights would help too. While your legs are movin, just move your arms around too, if you don't have to have the controller.

Or... if you have to have the controller, put together a controller holder that's heavy. hehe...

Just a thought...

j

Re: upper body DDR?

[cnoocy]

I thought that upper-body DDR already existed. I believe the brand name for it is "Whack-a-Mole."

Re: upper body DDR?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Informational point: you do not need to use your hands at any time to play DDR, once you have turned on your system.

samba de amigo!

[leahleaf.livejournal.com]

AMIGO