Plenty of people play the game Dance Dance Revolution for fun. But what about using it as your main form of exercise? That’s what California teacher Carrie Swidecki did.
Carrie Swidecki, center, danced her way into the record books. Could you dance for 15 hours? (Philip Robertson/Guinness World Records)
Not only did playing the game regularly help her lose something—most of the 90 pounds she says she had gained in the six years after high school—it also helped her gain a Guinness World Record! Swidecki dance-danced her way into the record books last summer after 15 hours, 17 minutes, and 44 seconds. The record was set at a West Virginia conference on preventing childhood obesity, a topic close to Swidecki’s heart. She says she hopes her effort will call attention to fun forms of exercise as a way to get—and stay—healthy.
This post originally appeared in the February 2012 issue of Current Health Teens, available now.
