Wii used by pupils for exercise

Mizuno, Ecco, Keen and Merrell are all trainers which would be ideal to wear while playing on the Nintendo Wii, a video games console which is now being used by schools in a ‘virtual’ version of PE.

Four pupils have donned their running shoes and taken up a new scheme which sees teenagers that are more used to skipping the sessions, using the games console to simulate playing sports such as tennis and football.

Such has been the success of the lottery funded scheme from the Droitwich and Worcester City School Sport Partnership, that it has already won a national school sports award and has been backed by the Department for Health.

Speaking to the BBC, a spokesman for the partnership said: “We needed to think differently - non-traditional, innovative and appealing to their existing interests.”

If you are looking to undertake more exercise, whether that be by conventional means or not, you will need suitable footwear which balances comfort with durability.

Shoes from the likes of Merrell, Keen and Ecco can be found here at Fitness Footwear.