Right after the Switch came out, I wrote this up at Ars: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017...nintendos-new-console-to-the-gym-and-love-it/
Having one Joy-Con in each hand really helps for fitness's sake, in terms of enabling general arm sway, and this makes 30-90 minute treadmill and elliptical runs just whizzzz by. My advice, if you can get to a treadmill: pick out chunky, pixelated fare (Mega Man collections, Shovel Knight), unless you for any reason can rig up a Switch dock to a TV (highly unlikely). Constant movement makes tracking a small screen's 3D movement really tricky. But the Joy-Cons are resilient in terms of sweat (definitely take the straps) and I absolutely use my Switch a few times a year this way. (Most of my workouts are weights-based, but when I wanna switch to endurance/cardio, I Switch it up.)
I've always been more interested in the stories of gamers who attach traditional games to their fitness regimens, like World of Warcraft rigs slapped onto treadmills. Yet these have also seemed less than ideal. How are you supposed to walk even slightly fast—let alone jog—while managing a mouse and keyboard rig?
Now, I don't own a treadmill, nor do I have any interest in cracking open that old EA Sports Active box. But I do have a gym membership, and when I went there on Monday, I already had my Switch with me. What started as "I'm not leaving this thing in the car" turned into something surprising: a mighty good fitness accessory.
Having one Joy-Con in each hand really helps for fitness's sake, in terms of enabling general arm sway, and this makes 30-90 minute treadmill and elliptical runs just whizzzz by. My advice, if you can get to a treadmill: pick out chunky, pixelated fare (Mega Man collections, Shovel Knight), unless you for any reason can rig up a Switch dock to a TV (highly unlikely). Constant movement makes tracking a small screen's 3D movement really tricky. But the Joy-Cons are resilient in terms of sweat (definitely take the straps) and I absolutely use my Switch a few times a year this way. (Most of my workouts are weights-based, but when I wanna switch to endurance/cardio, I Switch it up.)