Wii Fit Day 1

I acquired a Wii Fit today. I had been looking around, signed up for some alerts, etc. to no avail. I gave in and spoke to my contact (who shall remain nameless) and learned he could get one to me next week. (I had asked a bit late in the day and didn’t want him to go out of his way.) Well, to my surprise, it was sitting in my chair when I arrived at work this morning. Woo-hoo!

I kind of wanted to just grab it, turn around, and go home to try it out, but I stayed like a good little worker bee. When I got home (after picking Kipper up from his day at the vet with 3 new prescriptions even though his urinalysis results were normal… don’t get me started… sigh), I fired it up.

Everything set up very quickly, had to sync up the new balance board. I discovered that it tucks perfectly under my coffee table. Bonus! I then logged in, told it which Mii to use, and began my tests. My BMI came in at exactly 24.00 which made my Mii jump up and down with joy for being normal (even though it’s on the high side of normal). I set a target of 22.99 (It’s very specific, but only shifts in certain increments) in, I believe 2 months. (maybe 3 months?)Unlikely, but it’s something to target for. That means a loss of 6.8 pounds. I’ve lost about that in the last few months, but those pounds I’ve lost are mostly in the range of my normal fluctuation. The next pounds are *much* harder, and I have very low expectation of losing them, at least in a timely manner. I’ll try, but I won’t be disappointed if it doesn’t happen.

Anyway, I learned my center of balance is a bit to the right and quite a bit far back, so more of my weight is on my heels than should be. I did the test at the beginning and at the end of the workout, with nearly identical results. Interesting.

Because it was my new toy, I wanted to try everything. I did all of the games that are unlocked to start. During the process I unlocked at least three other games, but I resisted temptation.

Yoga

I’m a good deep breather, apparently. That’s what the first one was, and I got 4 stars (the most). Woo! (I have no idea what they measure for that.) I got 3 stars and some fairly high scores on the other 3 yoga poses. I think I did surprisingly well on them. Only one of them was of the challenging variety.

Balance

On a few of these I didn’t “get” everything I was supposed to, so I decided to repeat them once I realized whatever it was I missed. For example in the ski slalom, I was doing fine with left and right through the flags, but i didn’t realize I should have been leaning forward as well to speed up until I was nearly done. Second try, much better, but still a bit meh. Overall fun, but I’ll have to practice these a bit to get them to work correctly. This was definitely where I was weakest.

Aerobics

This part was extra fun because your other Mii’s show up in here, so it’s a little like working out with others. The step aerobics type game had, I think, all of them lined up along side me. In the jogging, I was jogging along and, hey, there’s Paul waving at me. Oh, there’s a stormtrooper running along side me. Oh, hey, it’s Willow and Xander. Oops, looks like Heather tripped up ahead. Then a crowd welcomed me at the finish line. Pretty cool. It also was nice, because it forced me to pace myself. I was supposed to stay behind the Mii I was following. I think that’s been part of my problem with running. My ingrained pace is the pace I used to be able to do. Now that pace makes my heart want to leap out of my chest. Slower is good, but hard. It was just a quick 3 minute jog too, but I didn’t want to die.

Strength

I did surprisingly well here. I got 4 stars on at least 2 of the 4 exercises. I suspect this also has to do with however they measure it. I really don’t understand how the push up/side plank, which was not good, but I got the max points. shrug.

Overall it was a lot of fun. It also kept track of the total time exercising and cheered when I passed 30 minutes. Total was 33 minutes on the day. I love the idea of making exercise a game. Some of you might have noticed I’m a wee bit competitive. This thing is perfect for me, assuming I keep it up consistently. It was actually a pretty good workout.