Locally made board game focuses on fitness

WEST OAK LANE (WPVI) -- Playing board games is a great way to pass the time indoors on a rainy or cold day.

But with many games you're just sitting there and we know the longer you sit, the less healthy it is for your body.

A new locally-created game takes a different approach.

Two years ago, trainer Rickie Williams got the idea for "Body Breaker" - a board game designed to make exercise fun.

Second graders at West Oak Lane Charter School got to try it out.

Players roll the dice and depending where their game piece lands, they have to do a physical exercise.

There are also question cards testing your knowledge of anatomy, health and nutrition.

"If you answer a question right, you can make me work out. If you get it wrong, you work out," said Williams.

Body Breaker got the students up and moving and learning new things like:

"That your liver makes cholesterol," said Zarah Goodwin

For the students at West Oak Lane Charter, it was a good way to burn off excess energy on a day that was too cold for outdoor recess.

"And it definitely, definitely, has an effect on the classroom. We like to have them up and get moving to maximize our classroom attention" said Jennifer Stravinsky, teacher.

The winner is determined by whoever has the most energy bar cards left - you lose one each time you miss a question.

However Williams says in the end, everyone wins by exercising.

There are no limits on how many people can play and it can be played by ages 8 to 80.

The game is priced at $35 and is available online.

For more information visit: www.bodybreaker.net.