Wii Fit

[Cagliostro]

I am thinking pretty soon of picking up a Wii. I am a sucker for fitness games and usually stick with them for a while, and I think I need a new one as all the others on the PS2 are boring me or are too difficult for me or have "lighting issues" for the Eyetoy. So seeing Wii Fit has me all excited.

Anybody here have it? Just curious about thoughts on this.

[Usivius]

definately.
for the wife and I it will be great. She is so in to doing home exersizes and stubbornly goes throught the few dvds we have ... this looks great.

we're in.!

[Worm of Despite]

For me, most video game appliances are either a zapper gun or a curious relic. And even then, the zapper didn't kill the ducks all the time. *grumbles*

[Cagliostro]

Okay, I got it. I've been sick since buying it, so I haven't had much opportunity to mess with it yet, but I've done a little bit on it. So far, it seems amazingly easy, and has no daily routine. You pick what you want to do, and then pick something else. So you pretty much get to come up with your own routine and how long you want to do it for. I like that you weigh in every day. I don't like that I have been labelled obese, but I suppose I've earned that. It does have goals, and I set my goal to lose 10 pounds within 2 months. As I was sick yesterday, and barely ate anything, I weighed in at -4.5 lbs, so I'm practically halfway there. That is, if my weight doesn't go right back the other direction. We'll see.

Another complaint is that is all based off of the idea that you must have perfect balance. The exercise doesn't matter as much as balance while doing the exercise, which I think is a weird way to look at exercise. It's probably because it is based off of the balance board, which is the only way it has of detecting you doing anything, other than jogging where you put the remote in your pocket.

I dunno....I was hoping for a bit more from this, but the games are a little fun, so I'll probably keep up with this for a while. I just hope this isn't the only fitness game for this, and especially for the expensive balance board.

[Queeaqueg]

Not into this Wii Fit, why not just go outside to play sport or get fit... or even go to a gym. Don't get me wrong, I love video games loads and I also love my sport plus gym/weight training loads but I would never combined the two together.
I feel games are something different, something to unwide to after you have worked hard from job, college/uni or going to sport/gym activities. Doing exercise while pl;aying games makes everything more stressful in my opinion.

I generally don't like the Wii and I don't like Wii board. It told a girl that she was obese from measuring her BMI(BMi being one of the worse measurers of weight).

[Cagliostro]

I am enough out of shape that I hurt playing any sports, and have trouble finding the time for such things, or willingness. So exercising in my living space is best and easiest for me. I hate going to the gym for two reasons - 1) I am very body conscious, and am uncomfortable with others seeing me work out. 2) It costs money - considerably more than these games. And I save money on gas doing it at home as well, and the time it takes to commute to one.

[Queeaqueg]

It is pretty bad that with a country with a growing obesity rate and health concerns because they are not going enough exercise, cannot provide affordable sporting facilities and gyms. I knew one place that demanded £10 to go to the gym for hour-and-a-half and £40 pounds to rent a hall to play fro 40 minutes(pound a minute) which is excessive. Lucky I go to a gym where I pay £2 for unlimited time.
Preety shocking that computer games are a creaper option than sports facilities and gyms.

[Menolly]

It depends, quee...

My family has a membership to our local YMCA.
The three of us have unlimited access to their facilities for $33/month. That's not for each of us. That's for the family.

The facilities aren't extravagent, but the weight room has both circuit and free weights. The free six hour orientation to be introduced to the equipment and learn the best way to use it is worth the time, and the health and fitness programs in general are pretty decent. Personal trainers and individual programs are available for an additional fee.

It is also were my karate-do dojo is located. When I train, that is also an additional fee.

Options are out there here in the States. But, they aren't always easy to find.

[Cagliostro]

Ya know, I actually meant to have #2 be something different - and I meant to add it as #3, but then work got busy and I never got back to it.

So basically, #3 is this: it's more fun too. I get bored lifting weights or things like that. Sure, sports I would enjoy if I could, but I'm not a fan of team sports, and I don't like jocks. I did a lot of rock climbing and enjoyed the hell out of it, but now all I have is a harness and shoes. My ex-girlfriend had all the equipment, and the gym is expensive (about $10 a visit). I would totally do that if I had any friends that would be up to it, but I don't. But what makes the videogame alternative is the variety and self-competition. The exercise DVDs never change, but Yourself Fitness on PS2 is like a constantly changing exercise DVD. Wii Fit and Kinetic (on PS2) work with little games that it keeps track of your score and you can work to better your score. Same thing with Dance Dance Revolution - I don't play it to look good on the dance floor...it doesn't translate. It's a good aerobic exercise, and lots of fun to get the mind and body to work together. For me, it works, and you can naysay all you like. I won't tend to go to the gym, but I have lost quite a bit of weight on these "games." DDR alone I lost 30 pounds in the first few months of playing it. I didn't exactly track the others, but I've already dropped 4 pounds on Wii Fit (although I'm sure it has more to do with being sick than anything).

Nah, I stand by the joining of videogames and exercise, and if I could figure out where to invest in this for the future, I'd drop money on it.

[baabng]

The topic is Wii Fit. My family has the Wii Fit. I understand the complaint about everything being based on balance. I typically agree, but the push up excersizes are great and the strength ones are pretty good. It is not about bulking up muscles, it is about toning muscles and getting into aerobic shape. If you are looking for more muscle mass, this is not your product, but if you want body tone and shape, I think it is great.

My entire family has been doing it for a month. I have not missed a day in the first 28, and I have never excersized before, except pickup basketball.

Davarna

[Cagliostro]

Lately, I've been using a variety of the different exercise games I've bought, whenever it isn't too hot or raining here. I try to get in everyday for Wii Fit to weigh in for the day, then go over to the PS2 for Yourself Fitness if it is Monday or Thursday, or Kinetic or Dance Dance Revolution. Going back to Kinetic, which was the first of the exercise "games" I bought (DDR is more a game than an exercise "game"), and I must say that Kinetic is still the one that makes me hurt but feel really good. I think it is how good they do warm up exercises and stretching at the end. And that they coach you how to move your body without injuring yourself. I had been doing Wii Fit every day for a while, but it really doesn't work me very much and I never felt much doing 30 minutes a day. I think because it has so much stop/start activities. I wish you could just set everything ahead of time and then press go. You rest too much waiting for things to load. Unless the entire 30 minutes is jogging in place or the step thing.