Posts by llogan10

I will say instead of getting an expensive treadmill I to bought the cheapest one Walmart had at the time (Image 3.0 I think is the model) and It has lasted me for the past 5 years of using it 5-6 times a month. But I am sure like everything just because mine has lasted, doesnt mean they all will.

There is nothing wrong with chit chatting with people at the gym, thats just part of being outgoing.

Most publixes have the huge scales, that I dont think I have ever seen moved.

But I mean you can get a decent scale for 20 bucks, but no matter what you do ever scale you step on will vary.

I have 2 at home and sometimes they are dead on, sometimes they are 3-5 pounds different.

To be honest the most accurate one (I define accurate as consistant) has been the wii fit. Though it differs from my other scale, it has atleast been consistant in what I way.

Wow, I may have to go back and check and see if they are sold out yet?

As far as the activity log, when you first choice your mii, and it is on the screen with the graph, there are 3-4 choices on the corners of the graph. One of them has a Activity Log. I only found it because it was one of the tips that the board gives you on loading.

Personally I am not as impressed with it.

If I had to sum up the Wii Fit, I would call it an Interactive Fitness DVD.

The exercises to me seem to be way to short, though it does seem like you can unlock longer sessions as you go.

The yoga and strength seem to be solid exercises for people who do not want to use weights, however the aerobics seemed to be lacking.

Let me preface by saying I have never taken an aerobics class so this is really my first taste of stepping and what not. I did the steps to unlock all three stages (Step, Advanced, and Free Step) and it seems way to easy. Maybe If I raise the wii board so its a bigger step it may prove more of a challenge, but I was able to do both stages, and then 20 min on the free step and barely broke a sweat (and I am not that in shape, I am just under 300).

The Advanced Hula Hoop seems to get your heart rate going, and is the only exercise that I really feel got me sweating, but I did it after doing all the steps, and the Hula Hoop enough to unlock Advanced.

The Fun Factor

I am really hoping games find a great way to use the wii board in their games, because wii fit, outside of being a "different workout" isnt fun. I mean as far as exercising and working out goes, its alot more fun then running on a treadmill for an hour, but if this was suppose to make working out so much fun you forget you are working out? It missed its mark.

As far as being a solid workout I think it can be, but Nintendo really screwed up by not allowing predefined workout reutines, I hate having to go reaching for the remote, or hold the remote the whole time I am on the board. Without being able to define reutines you spend a little time exercising and alot of time on the menues. The thing that confused me the most is when I did the lunges in strength, it told me to kill 2 birds in one stone and do the warrior yoga pose as well, so it seemed like I could set it up to do them both at the same time or back to back, but besides it giving me a check mark after i did both, that seemed to be it.

My kids were excited after seeing all the hype for the games, as was I, I mean alot of this looked like stuff I use to see at Epcot and things growing up, so I was excited to get an "at home version." But this is not kid friendly at all (mine are 5-7). I do not know if we just havent gotten the hang of shifting our weight the way it wants us to, but we tried the soccer ball blocking game for a good 30-45 min and the guy on screen was always delayed, could be a wireless delay or it wasnt reading our shifting weight right, or somehow we just dont know how to shift our weight, but we could never get anything over 1 star on that game. Even though we all did well on the balance tests.

 Anyways do I regret buying it? No, not really. Did it live up to all the hype? No, not really.

How do you have it already? I was understanding it wasnt being released until the middle of May.

I plan on buying it for sure. If nothing else for my Kids. My kids are like all kids love video games, but we limit them to a very small time on it. But with the wii, its kinda throws a wrench into the whole ball game. My son will wear himself out with wii sports and doing the boxing, and I am sure with the wii fit, he will equally wear himself out, and hopefully keep us motivated to "play" with him.

I will say that with the world of Video Games I am loving the Wii. My son looks forward to his 30 min or so we let him play games a few times a week, and if we can keep him playing the active games like Wii sports, DDR, (and soon to come wii fit) over the tedious uneventful ones I will be happy.

As far as wii fit, I think anyone who does it alone to lose weight will be disappointed. I do not think we are going to see a new wave of skinny gamers appearing out of no where, but is it better then sitting on the couch punching buttons? For sure.

I appreciate the input, but I have pulled my workout ruetine from reading and taking sample workouts from various websites. The Cardio, I kinda agree with you about not doing enough, but from what I have read, most people discourage long drawn out cardio sessions. So I have decided to be safe and just do both, so half the time I do HIIT (Currently doing one of the program where slowly you add more HIIT sessions as you go, ie for the first 4 weeks you do 3 sets of sprinting and jogging, week 5-8 you do 4 etc) So as I go that will get longer.

My biggest concern is I am doing my ruetine in around 30 min (Not including Cardio), where it seems others spend  alot more time in the gym. So I am wondering If I am not doing enough, or is it maybe because I am going more often instead of only going once or twice a week.

 Anyways any input is appreciated

I do not know of a college in the USA that does not have a gym students can use for free. Even the community colleges here have pretty nice gyms for the students.

 I would check that out first.