"Tired of working out to the same exercises on the Wii Fit? A new version is designed to offer a fresh batch of challenges.
The latest edition, dubbed Wii Fit Plus, will offer new exercises, yoga activities, and balance games, the company said late Monday.
People will be able to customize their workouts by choosing the amount of time to spend on a specific exercise. Wii users will also be able to select an area for improvement, and the Wii Fit Plus will suggest various activities to help." ... more details at link
Have you ever wondered if those video game exercise programs work? Can you achieve healthy weight loss playing a video game? The Wii Fit is the most popular of the weight loss programs that are on the market today. It has sold many thousands of units, but some wonder if... weight-> exercise-> aerobic-> game-> wellness-> program
Senior Walking Exercise For Quick Weight Loss. Are you happy with your weight? If not you can do something about it now. For fast weight loss you need just two things. A weight loss program and exercise. Walking exercise will give you the muscles and the exercise you need to burn calories. A healthy diet will do...
Wii Fit: Healthy Weight Loss? Have you ever wondered if those video game exercise programs work? Can you achieve healthy weight loss playing a video game? The Wii Fit is the most popular of the weight loss programs that are on the market today. It has sold many thousands of units, but some wonder if...
Weight Training Fat Loss - Good Result You will not get toned muscles only by lifting weights! Weight training fat loss is the thing which comes only after the time till you are eating lots of calories (and generally excess of calories). And even then the average women (for example) are not predisposed to have physically large...
Lose Weight, Look Good and Feel Great! It is the goal of many people to lose weight, look good and feel the best they can. The problem is that this goal is hindered by distorted interpretations of what is good. Every one knows what good body shape is, and there are countless diets, exercise machines, and other...
Exercising Is More Than Losing Weight While there has always been a big push to get people to exercise, obesity rates have continued to rise. Just because people have been told to exercise does not necessarily mean they will. While doctors and governments are always trying to push the benefits of exercising to people, they always...
Uplifting: Learning from the Things I Do Right It seems odd to me that of all the components to my fitness regimen, it's my weight-lifting that's going best. When I started this several months ago, I did so with a grudging heart. Make no mistake: I do not love lifting weights. Sometimes it's a chore. But it's a...
5 More Tips for Beginning a Wellness Program It is never too late for you to begin a journey in health and wellness. Here is five of ten tips that you can begin today in order to build a foundation for your health and wellness program. 1 - Take Every Step One At a Time - What happens...
5 Tips for Beginning a Wellness Program It is never too late for you to begin a journey in health and wellness. Here is five of ten tips that you can begin today in order to build a foundation for your health and wellness program. 1 - Write Your Goals Out - Put your goals and desires...
Ask Dr. Rybicki: Basic Weight Loss Procedures Exercise is the cornerstone of weight loss. I advise patients to start slow and develop an exercise program that includes both core strengthening and aerobic exercise. I recommend that they work their way up to aerobic exercise for a period of 30 to 40 minutes three times a week. Common examples of aerobic exercise include running on a treadmill, riding an exercise bicycle, or using elliptical trainers.
Tennis for Weight Loss When most people think of weight loss, they immediately start to think about running mile after mile, sweating to outdated aerobics videos, or otherwise engaging in activities that they simply do not enjoy. This is not necessarily the case anymore, however, as people are beginning to see the virtue in...
Search in blogs by BlogSearchQuery.com 5 Online Store Search Results
Screen Lock Program August 29th, 2009 Screen Lock ProgramBackground:I play a lot of poker on the internet, when I am having a losing session I often find it hard to quit the games I am playing so generally play worse and lose more. To prevent this happening I have stop loss amount set...
Avoid Work at Home Scams Using Common Sense Guides To Making Money on the Internet Perhaps you are already one of the unfortunate people that have been caught out by a business opportunity or work at home scam. After this you may even have shelved the idea of making money on the internet completely. It sort of leaves...
Phentermine With the program that I am on, I am currently taking Phentermine HCl 30mg. With this post I wanted to share what my doctors says about this drug... The page in my program is taking about 2 drugs at the same time Phendimetrazine and Phentermine. I am currently only on...
Perfect guideline to Google Adwords Program understand with KEYWORD Elite Perfect guide to AdwordsYou can be successful in driving higher traffic towards your website once you learn the perfect guidelines to the Adwords.Google is at the first place in between all the search engines.The realty is that the search engine Google is the most well known and accepted search engine...
College Football - Sept 3rd Games It's almost college football time with kickoff set for Thursday, Sept. 3. I'm going to take a look at some of these games on the first weekend not because I want you to bet on them, but because I play College Pick-um on a couple of sties(espn and foxsports), and they use the...
Home Business E-Books If you'd like to start your own business from home on the internet, then these best selling products from the Clickbank Marketplace will help you get a good head start making an income online.
Alternative Search Engines E-Book & PDF Search Engine PDF Searcher Pdf Searcher is a pdf and ebook search engine. You can search and download every ebook or pdf for free! PDFGeni PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF ebooks, sheets, forms and documents. Data-Sheet Data-Sheet is a pdf ebook datasheet...
Watch for Affiliate Marketing Scams that Could Ruin Your Profits Whenever there is money to be made, criminals and con artist will find a way to turn it into a scam to make what they consider to be easy money. The only way to protect yourself is to know what the scams are and how to avoid them. Billions of...
Credit Report & Repair Scams Credit Report & Repair Scams Newspapers, radio, TV and the Internet are filled with advertisements that offer for a fee to erase accurate negative information in your credit file. The credit repair scam artists who run these ads can't deliver. Only time, a deliberate effort, and a plan to repay...
Let the Scholar Beware: College Scams and How to Spot Them If you're on the hunt for scholarships, student loans, or grants--beware! Scam artists are on the prowl for vulnerable students. The more you know, the better you can protect yourself. Here are some common college loan and scholarship scams, and how you can avoid becoming a victim. According to FinAid,...
Blog search tools by BlogSearchQuery.com 5 Online Store Search Results
Money Management and Money Saving Tips Every quarter ING Direct sends out a quarterly newsletter with money saving tips and and additional tips on money management. Here are a few of the tips from this quarter's newsletter, with a few additional comments and links to help you better manage your money. Oh, and if you aren't...
Catching Winter Crappie For most fishermen who have a penchant for catch crappie, wintertime crappie catching is perceived to be an absolutely impossible task. Many fishermen even believe that Crappie catching is completely unheard of at all during the colder months of the year, but this simply is not true! Crappie fish do...
Saving Money By Buying Store Brands - 7 Products That Work For Us Before I became a frugal shopper, I didn't even consider buying store brands. I stuck with the name brands - the ones I recognized and had always used. However, little by little I ventured into trying store brands and to my surprise I found that many were of the same...
AnyFont Released! The first public release of my wordpress plugin called AnyFont, finally got uploaded to the wordpress plugin repository today. The plugin itself allows you to use any truetype font you wish for your post titles or menu items by generating images automatically, and if my explanation doesnt make the slightest...
Farmingdale, New York: PGA United States Open Although in Farmingdale, New York, the rain has been upsetting large portions of the PGA United States Open golf tournament, Ricky Barnes managed to shoot an even par 70 on Sunday, allowing him to maintain the lead that he has been carrying following three rounds this last weekend. The weather...
Tales from the Bet Slip, Vol. 1: Personal Favorites If you’re a big fan of sports betting like I am, this is one of the prime times of the year for you. But along with the plethora of men’s college basketball action there is going on right now, from the NCAA Tournament to the several lesser tournaments, there‘s also...
Alternate Recent Posts Widget I've been fooling around with WordPress a lot lately, trying to get GeekLad.com configured just how I like it. Most recently I added a Recent Posts widget. The default Recent Posts widget displays links to all of your most recent posts. If you are already displaying your most recent posts...
JP Morgan Provides California $1.5 Billion Loan To Repay IOUs The California State Treasurers office announced late Tuesday that JP Morgan Chase is supplying a $1.5 billion loan that will allow it to end its IOU program come September 4, when the state’s new cash-flow borrowing plan kicks in. The exact details of the loan were not disclosed, but reports...
Is Your Husband Having An Affair? Find Out! Here's a straight forward question for you: Is your husband having an affair? Read this article, and you will for sure be more able to tell to tell what's really going on. Everyone who cheats and delves into the realm of infidelity leaves a trail of clues that can reveal...
The Importance Of Leadership Development It's easy to discount the importance of leadership development, assuming that corporate leaders either have what they take or they don't and if they do they'll learn as they go. If they don't...well, if they didn't have what it took they wouldn't have been given a leadership role to begin...
Granted it gets people to get up and exercise but, do people really need a video game to tell them to exercise? In a hospital I can see it being useful. At home, you should know better. For the price of the Wii Fit, you could get a year at a gym if you want to get in shape. It's one thing to be lazy but that sunk to a new low.
The boys have had such a good time with this game. Xander weighed in as 'underweight' and now he is trying to put on some muscle and gain some weight. He does Wii Fit excercises every morning this week but he doesn't do the progress test until AFTER he eats breakfast. Josh has great balance and can do more push ups than any of us and holds the record for most spins on hula hoop. I am not embarrased to say that I am the best at the step excersise which is basically a simple version of DDR (which I would secretly love to buy in the future).
The Wii Fit has introduced an healthy amount of competition at home and we are all enjoying it. That doesn't mean that we aren't still couch/computer potatos but it's a step in the right direction. Who ever thought that playing Nintendo could get you OFF the couch?
Our Wii Fit arrived in the mail yesterday, and we've thoroughly enjoyed it so far. Is it bad that I'm proud of the fact that my Wii Fit age is actually the same as my real age? Even with me falling squarely in the middle of the obese category. Speaking of that, I'm not convinced that it makes sense for me to be categorized as obese. Either my body type just isn't what Wii Fit is targeting, or you can be in pretty decent physical shape and still be obese. (Overweight, yeah, I would agree with that. ;)
Anyways, despite my gripes about the legitimacy of BMI based only on height and weight (taking into account fat percentage generally gives a much better idea), I'm quite happy with it so far. Lets see if I can actually keep it up and do something about my rather pathetic upper body strength.
And in other fitness related notes, I'm doing a 5 mile fun run tonight. I probably should have posted it earlier to see if anyone who reads my blog runs as well, but hey, if you want to come do this run this evening, you can sign up there. =]
I like other WII fanatics did not wait to read reviews on the WII Fit, on the contrary, my husband rushed out to buy me one the same day it came out. I figured if I love my WII why wouldn't I love the WII Fit.
The WII Fit is basically a balance board that is able to read your weight, body mass, keeps track of your progress and allows you to set up a goal to lose or gain weight and all of this is tracked by your MII profile.
It offers four categories of exercises; balance, aerobics, strength, and Yoga and amongst these categories it offers 50 different types of activities. All your time is tracked and displayed to you after every activity and from the menu. My favorite is the advance step aerobics and the boxing even though one of the reviews I read said that you don't even break a sweat with the aerobics... I do.
The incredible part of the system is the way it praises you, gives you tips, and can also be a little harsh when you're not doing the exercises right. The Yoga trainer says things like "Hey, your muscles won't train themselves you know" when you step off the board in the middle of an exercise or something like "you're a little too shaky" when you can't hold a Yoga pose but it also gives you praises such as "you're doing great", "you got an excellent balance" so it's basically like having an actual trainer watching you. It also has a way of knowing the time of day, I usually start using it after dinner and it greets me with "Good evening! Isn't a little too late to exercise". It's like big brother is watching.
I've read several articles after it came out and I had tried it myself. I'm not one that goes 100% by other people's reviews, I usually like to have an open mind. I did it with the iPhone and I'm going to say it again, I LOVE MY IPHONE even though a lot of people have trashed it. Well back to the WII FIT, the reviews I've read in newspapers and magazines have been mixed, some say it's great for those that want to get into shape little by little and others say it's a dumb down version of yoga.
The bad reviews have been mostly from those that are Yoga or Fitness experts but let's be real.... we all know this does not replace the gym or other exercise classes but it's certainly a good way to start exercising and getting into the habit. At least that's why I bought it.
So in my eyes the WII Fit is doing what it's suppose to do, kudos to Nintendo.
Now wouldn't it be great to be able to use this same type of technology in our eLearning courses? Even though usually positive and encouraging feedback is provided through out courses, I think it would be great to be able to provide more interactive feedback. Can you imagine saying to a student "Hey, you know you need to read the content before you continue" when they are just clicking through screens... or "that's excellent, you're a quick learner" when they answer correctly in a very short time, What do you think?
How would you use this technology in training? Or what is our opinion on the WII Fit and your favorite exercise?
