How Making Fitness Into An Role-Playing Game Makes Us All Look And Feel Great

Brian Wang and Dick Talens shared their tales of going from flabby and scrawny teenagers to buff bodybuilders, while still retaining their gamer cred. CNN then found two psychology experts — normally these are the guys who TV turns to when they want to talk about how soul-suckingly addictive video games are. Instead, they identify games’ ability to make their players feel competent and the freedom and autonomy they offer, and then the social component supporting all of it.