Sometimes when I am reading gaming or fitness sites and the topic of exercising with the Wii arises, I’ll detect a tone of – at best playful skepticism, and at worst contempt and disgust. The most common argument is that these games are toys, fantasy fitness, as close to real exercise as Guitar Hero is to [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
Day Twelve: Jogging with the Kitty Kats
No change in weight today. That’s better than an increase. I’m now within 1 BMI point of the normal threshold. That sounds really close, but it’s actually about 7.5 pounds away. Or, roughly 4% of me that needs to dissolve away before the balance board will stop playing the tubby elephant trumpet.
My Wii Fit Age [...]
Day Eleven: Curse of the Temptress
Yesterday’s slight bump up in weight is followed by a slightly larger dip down today. I’ll take that.
More than 10 years difference in today’s Wii Fit age. I assume this has nothing to do with the weight loss and everything to do with the fact that I did slightly better on an agility game.
The EA [...]
Day Ten: The Lost Workout
My weight bounced up by a little less than a pound. It wasn’t significant enough to warrant a rebuke from the balance board. Despite the slight increase, it’s still lower than it was a couple of days ago.
The Wii Fit Age on the other hand has skyrocketed up to 37. I attribute this mostly to [...]
Day Nine: Progress and Respite
George and Weezie may have been content with movin’ on up, but not me. I’m movin’ on down. 1.5 lbs. worth of down. As always, I’ll believe it after a couple of days. But now I feel a bit more confident that this is a bona fide trend and not the capricious will of the [...]
Day Eight: Leaping Lizards and Lugubrious Legs
A wise man once said no g-news is good g-news, unless it’s gary gnus. In keeping with that gentle spirit, there is no news to report on the weight front. Since it’s the exact same as yesterday, I feel like the balance board should reward me. It’s usually so pleased when things remain perfectly still.
Despite [...]
7 Great Ways to get Video Games Cheap (and a couple not-so-great ones)
Video Games are expensive.
There are always a lot more games that I want to play than I can afford. Renting from a video store is an option, but I want the the luxury of taking my time with a game if I like it, and I don’t want to worry about late fees. I recently [...]
Day Seven: Jumping Jehosaphat
Today the weight is up by a little over a pound. Overall it’s down from this time last week.
Wii Fit Age is matching up with my real age. I have no idea why. Maybe the balance board picks the age out of a bingo tumbler.
Today’s EA Sports Active workout introduced side to side jumps. Now, [...]
Day Six: Pumping Neoprene
Holy crap, another day of relatively significant weight loss. I’m not going to consider two data points a trend, but this is an encouraging development.
Since I’m a little skeptical of the results, I’m going to round up and call this 173. I’m not sure if I’m just losing water weight, or what the cause is. [...]
Day Five: Coke Cupcakes and Curious Calories
Hey, check it out. I’ve lost a noticeable amount of weight today. I don’t want to count any chickens, hopefully it’s an indicator that things are moving in the right direction.
The Wii Fit age is up a little bit, but the Mii is still looking pretty satisfied so I’ll take that as a good sign.
This [...]