I’m not Wii Fit
Shelley has been wanting a Wii Fit for a while after getting rave reviews from several of our friends. They seem to be always sold out, but Rex put me on the trail of Game Stop and said to call them every day at 11 and find out if they got any in that day. Day one was not successful, on day two I forgot to call them at the right time and finally remembered around 8pm and they informed me they had gotten some but were already sold out. Damn you! Yesterday I broadened the scope of my war dialing of Game Stops, finally locating one at a local mall. I quickly went out and secured the precious the Wii Fit for my wife.
In case you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know what a Wii Fit is, it is basically a glorified scale.
Nintendo describes it as follows:
Wii Fit combines fun and fitness in one product. It can change how you exercise, how you balance and even how you move.
It measures your weight and and how much pressure you put on each leg and has various tests for you to do. I unpacked it and put on the Wii Silicon Condom and then we got ready to get fit. I went first and did some basic balancing and got my BMI taken. It turns out that I am fat. This was disappointing, but apparently playing video games can change this. I think my BMI was 23 something and you’re asking for trouble over 22 according to the Wii. I won’t get into why the BMI is a completely worthless number here, but it is take my word for it. My overall Wii Fit Age was 42,in real life I am younger than that, so the Wii was trying to start static with me. But I am used to this as Nintendo DS used to tell me via Brain Age, that my brain was also very old.
Next up Shelley got on and was told she has a great BMI and was somewhere under 22. It asked us to set weight loss goals and we were pleased to see that the Wii Fit had no problem letting Shelley set a goal that seems to border on anorexia (at least according to BMI, but I said I wouldn’t go there) and was encouraging that if it was too hard you could update your goals in the future.
I decided to try my tubby ass at some of the Yoga games, and learned that I know how to breathe (imagine that), after mastering breathing, I knocked out a tree pose followed up by a warrior pose. I learned that in addition to having a crappy BMI I am not a yoga master. Shelley did much better on the yoga things than I did.
Next up we moved into the strength area, we both did the single-leg extension and both need to work more on our balance. In order to make up for being tubby I decided I needed to dominate some event and let the Wii know who was boss. I picked the push-up and side plank game. I had to do 6 pushups and some side planks. I totally dominated this event. I got max stars and 100 points. Since I can easily crank out 50 pushups at will, knocking out six was not challenging at all. Take that Wii Fit.
The Wii Fit wanted revenge and I obliged by playing Soccer Heading, Ski Salom and balance board. I took many cleats and panda heads right in the face and when it was Shelley’s turn she crushed this one. More than doubleing my score. I’m pretty sure Rex could kill us all in this game, as he used to be able to hit a soccer ball off his head 100 times in a row. This game is sort of tricky, because you try to actually move your body to get the balls, but that’s totally wrong, it’s more of a simple balance shift.
The Ski Salom is pretty fun and more like a game and less like work. Shelley again is winner here. I missed several gates and Shelley didn’t miss any. Lots of room for improvement for me.
The balance board was fun, but pretty hard, I think I need more practice. You try to tilt the platform by shifting your weight to make each of the balls go into the hole, but without letting any fall of the edge. If one goes off the edge, the whole board rotates 90 degrees and messes up what you were trying to do.
So overall we are happy with the purchase, but I am highly skeptical that we will still be using this thing in 60 days.
Next up is to get Christopher on it and see how he does.
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You’re easily the tubbiest guy I know, but I wouldn’t worry about it. Maybe if there were a triathlete or two in the family, you might do better.
LOL. Congratulations on learning how to breathe. I’m really good at that one too…I’m not an expert though, which is alarming.
Frank’s being modest. Notice how he points out when I kick his ass, but doesn’t mention that I gave up on the pushup/plank one after rep 4. The Wii Fit sweetly told me, “I noticed you took a break, there.”
And, it’s pathetic that the Wii Fit thinks I’m fitter than Frank. BMI is BS.
we got wii fit before the wedding last week, but haven’t had a chance to check it out yet. it will probably have to wait until after the olympics though.
I’m sure that i will be horribly fat and have a really high bmi. it reminds me of when i told this spin instructor that i know that i run half marathons on a pretty regular occasion and was training for a full one and she just rolled her eyes at my fat belly and said, oh then i guess you must be cardio fit only. i didn’t take it as a compliment.