Other things

After going through all the exercises I decided to retest myself and see if my Wii Fit age had changed at all. I was originally 43 when I first turned the game on. By the time I had trained I dropped down to 27 and lost half a pound. At first I was a little perplexed and upset that the board had been so off but when I thought about it I realized I had never really played videogames with my feet before other than a few rounds of DDR here and there. So my initial age was based on my times spent before I learned what I was doing. The learning curve for the board and Wii Fit is small but it is there. Also, the first time I did it I wasn’t paying attention to my balance at all. The second time however, it was forefront in my mind as it is right now and probably will be tomorrow. So I guess it worked.

One annoying factor of working out is that you need space. I don’t have that big an apartment and I didn’t really position my television, table and couch with having to do push-ups in mind. So people might be finding themselves rearranging their furniture with this one as most gamers abodes probably aren’t designed around to much physical movement.

On the other hand, Nintendo really wants working out to be as easy as possible. I know I’ll personally make up a million excuses not to work out from wanting to play videogames to the gym being too far away. I was sure that at some point when I had a different game in my Wii I would be to lazy to get up to switch it to work out. Thankfully, I guess, there is the Wii Fit Channel which allows you access to a limited version of Wii Fit. No excuses there I guess.

I don’t want to go into to much detail on my full opinion of everything as there are plenty more exercise to unlock and things to do but as for right now color me intrigued and impressed. I’ll tell you if I’m still interested in a week. If you’re asking yourself if this thing will really work well we’ll have that answer for you too as I’ll be putting my stats and progress up for the world to see. But more on that tomorrow I need to go look like an idiot pretending to hula hoop.