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How Pokemon Go Is Secretly The Best App For Exercise

People are Pokemon Go-ing out for a change

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How Pokemon Go Is Secretly The Best App For Exercise
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There is no doubting that within the most recent weeks of Pokemon Go's release, it has become a commercial and financial success. It has made over 14 million, and brought people closer together than ever before. Along with bringing us new friends, it brings us a new reason to go outside. With all of these Pokemon being in far and distant places, we need to get outside. This is a great change when you think about when we were all kids playing, we could just sit inside for hours to catch them all, but things have changed for the better.

So for those who don't know how it works, it essentially is a game that is based off of your GPS and in order for you to catch different Pokemon you need to go out and explore new towns, new areas, and just anywhere where you think there could be Pokemon. This becomes very easy with the use of the nearby Pokemon tracker that they give you in the bottom corner of the app, so that you can see how close a Pokemon is.

I can honestly say this game makes you move. The moment you get your first Pokemon, you want to keep going, but there's a catch. You can't catch them all in the same area you have been playing in. You need to travel and the best way to do that is to walk. You can walk around your town, or city, and you still have a long way to go before you even have close to them all.

Along with catching the Pokemon, there are eggs that you can hatch. In order to hatch these eggs, you need to walk up to 10 km. I remember when I got my first egg, I had to walk a simple 2 km. Well, I wasn't in an area where I can just walk from point A to point B, so I literally walked in circles around my campground in order to hatch the egg. I can honestly say that after walked around just to hatch an egg, I could feel it in my legs.

Now I'm not saying that Pokemon has players who normally don't go outside, but there is a big difference in playing the original Pokemon, and those who are playing Pokemon Go. There wasn't a need for us to move around in the beginning. There wasn't the sense of physical activity that we need to achieve now. We didn't need to go outside to "Catch Them All," we just needed a comfortable place to sit down and play for a few hours.

Where Pokemon Go really helps out is that most of it most dedicated players are those who played it in the 90s when it first came out and was big. Now they are all a little bit older, but there is still a way for them to feel the nostalgia, and get a little bit of exercise at the same time.

I cannot wait to see where Pokemon Go goes from here, but all I can say is that it is on it's way to becoming "The Very Best, Like No One Ever Was."

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