| After 2 weeks of using Wii Fit I ended up gaining | | | | stepping according to the music. It is boring and |
| two pounds, but since muscle weighs more than fat I | | | | takes too long. My favorite of the whole game is |
| am not surprised. Now that I tested how effective | | | | running. You put the remote in your pocket and you |
| they are lets look at the different exercises the | | | | start running in place, it is just that simple. As you |
| game offers. | | | | play more you can unlock longer tracks, a second |
| The games are broken up into four different | | | | player option and my favorite a free run. |
| categories, Yoga, strength training, aerobics and | | | | Then there is the balance games, soccer heading, ski |
| balance. The game lets you choose between a male | | | | slalom, ski jump, table tilt, tight rope, balance bubble, |
| or female trainer. It gives you a time bank which | | | | penguin slide, snow boarding and zazen. I particularly |
| keeps track of how long you have been excising. | | | | like ski jumping and you can play over again. Unlike |
| Let's start with Yoga, this section has the most | | | | Zazen which is game you sit still for minutes at a |
| exercises. Unfortunately when you start most of the | | | | time looking at a candle. No I am not kidding, that is |
| exercises are locked. You get started with some | | | | the whole game. |
| strange exercises that girls like to do, so I thought it | | | | There is a fifth option which is called favorites, which |
| would be super easy but girl was I wrong. Yoga also | | | | looks at which games you play the most and puts |
| has the most exercises that did not use the balance | | | | them one page so that you can access them easily. |
| board, which I thought was real strange since the | | | | It would have been great if we could this screen to |
| balance board is the main reason we have this game. | | | | set up our own workouts and go to the next one on |
| I preferred to use Yoga as a warm up or warm | | | | the list after you have completed exercises. That is |
| down exercise. | | | | my biggest complain about this game it forgets that |
| Strength training is the hardest of all exercises and it | | | | you want to use as an exercise program and not |
| should be. There are all the exercises you should | | | | just a game. When you finish an exercise it gives you |
| doing in a normal workout. Instead of unlocking more | | | | two options, quit or retry. |
| exercises towards the end you unlock challenges | | | | Retry, I just finished that exercise why would I want |
| against the personal trainer. These exercises also | | | | to do it again? How about an option to move on to |
| have so some that did not use the balance board but | | | | the next exercise. Because of this huge oversight |
| instead used the Wii remote. The game reads the | | | | your 30 minute workouts would not have taken |
| remote accurately but will miss one of my moves | | | | twice as long you have to continuously quit, select |
| once in a while. They even offer the choice to up | | | | new exercises, waiting for the board to recalibrate |
| your weight using a water bottle for your sets, but it | | | | then you can do the exercise. It was just a big |
| is a little hard to hold. | | | | hassle. There are suggestions once in a while on |
| Aerobic games are the ones I tended to do most | | | | which exercises you should do next but that should |
| often, they have four different kinds of games. | | | | be available after every exercise. I had no idea what |
| Hula hoops may look simple but it may tire you out | | | | exercises I should be doing, so I ended up just |
| fast. Step aerobics which you have to step on the | | | | picking them randomly and hoping I was getting a |
| balance board in rhythm to the music an instructions | | | | balanced workout. |
| the tv. Boxing is more like step aerobics, boxing and | | | | |