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Just a quick note to let you all know that my Wii Fit diary continues offline, though for the past couple of weeks I have been without console, so there's not much to report. I've been walking and just started back at the gym this week so I have not been slacking off in WF's absence, I promise!
For the "I don't give a rat's ass crap about your exercise, woman!" crew, here's your daily lulz: ONTD broke Livejournal.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Adventures in Wii Fit
The following is a direct, unedited journal entry about my daily attempt at training with Wii Fit. Feel free to skip the rest of this whole post if you ain't interested in my exercise exploits, you won't find anything to enjoy from here on out!
DAY SIX
35 minutes exercise time in total. Unlocked several new games, the improved rhythm step, which was so much harder, and a couple of muscle ‘challenges’. Since I do ‘girly knee pushups’ and the Wii doesn’t seem to consider those good form, I did very badly on the press up challenge, but I kicked that robot British man’s ass at the jackknife challenge. I’m going to look in to a proper plan because without some guidance I am wont to just do the bare minimum of games/exercises that I enjoy, without much thought to what good it’s doing me. Weight stayed the same today, after a few heavier than normal meals, so at least it’s not going up anymore. Am proud of my very first weekend attempt at WF and it feels good to get back to it after two days of silliness.
DAY SIX
35 minutes exercise time in total. Unlocked several new games, the improved rhythm step, which was so much harder, and a couple of muscle ‘challenges’. Since I do ‘girly knee pushups’ and the Wii doesn’t seem to consider those good form, I did very badly on the press up challenge, but I kicked that robot British man’s ass at the jackknife challenge. I’m going to look in to a proper plan because without some guidance I am wont to just do the bare minimum of games/exercises that I enjoy, without much thought to what good it’s doing me. Weight stayed the same today, after a few heavier than normal meals, so at least it’s not going up anymore. Am proud of my very first weekend attempt at WF and it feels good to get back to it after two days of silliness.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Day Four Fail
The following is a direct, unedited journal entry about my daily attempt at training with Wii Fit. Feel free to skip the rest of this whole post if you ain't interested in my exercise exploits, you won't find anything to enjoy from here on out!
DAY FOUR
No WF for day four because I went out and got perilously drunk instead. Hoorah.
DAY FOUR
No WF for day four because I went out and got perilously drunk instead. Hoorah.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The following is a direct, unedited journal entry about my daily attempt at training with Wii Fit. Feel free to skip the rest of this whole post if you ain't interested in my exercise exploits, you won't find anything to enjoy from here on out!
DAY THREE
Began with fitness test, apparently have gained almost a whole kilo since yesterday. Have concluded BMI/weight measurements are bullshit, and I either need to seriously watch what I drink in the hour before I weigh in, or just stop expecting to see it drop, even though I’m working my butt off and dieting and stuff. Anyway, whinge over, I hope that it is just some internal Nintendo thing to make me stick to the regime, and it’ll come good once the game decides to start being honest. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Fitness age went from 25 to 30.
Did some hoola-hooping, jogging, rhythm step (so much fun! This one is definitely my favourite), some muscle work (jackknifes hate me) and then some yoga. Skipped the balance games all together because I’m just no good at them and haven’t got the patience to spend enough time working out the sensor’s quirks. Plus, the stupidly long wait times getting in and out of those things drives me nuts!
Speaking of wait times, I am beginning to see the reasons behind the most common complaint about WF. Being able to put together a program of select exercises would be nice, and though the game comes close by suggesting which strength exercise goes well with which yoga pose, each time you want to do a new thing you gotta exit out to the main menu and select it. Tedious. Pushes workout time out above the 35 or so minutes I’d like to spend on it, but for now it is bearable.
Exercise time: 31 minutes.
DAY THREE
Began with fitness test, apparently have gained almost a whole kilo since yesterday. Have concluded BMI/weight measurements are bullshit, and I either need to seriously watch what I drink in the hour before I weigh in, or just stop expecting to see it drop, even though I’m working my butt off and dieting and stuff. Anyway, whinge over, I hope that it is just some internal Nintendo thing to make me stick to the regime, and it’ll come good once the game decides to start being honest. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Fitness age went from 25 to 30.
Did some hoola-hooping, jogging, rhythm step (so much fun! This one is definitely my favourite), some muscle work (jackknifes hate me) and then some yoga. Skipped the balance games all together because I’m just no good at them and haven’t got the patience to spend enough time working out the sensor’s quirks. Plus, the stupidly long wait times getting in and out of those things drives me nuts!
Speaking of wait times, I am beginning to see the reasons behind the most common complaint about WF. Being able to put together a program of select exercises would be nice, and though the game comes close by suggesting which strength exercise goes well with which yoga pose, each time you want to do a new thing you gotta exit out to the main menu and select it. Tedious. Pushes workout time out above the 35 or so minutes I’d like to spend on it, but for now it is bearable.
Exercise time: 31 minutes.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Wii Fit
The following is a direct, unedited journal entry about my daily attempt at training with Wii Fit. Feel free to skip the rest of this whole post if you ain't interested in my exercise exploits, you won't find anything to enjoy from here on out!
DAY TWO
Found it really difficult to get to sleep last night and didn’t end up drifting off until after 2AM. Then up at 6:40 and off to the gym. Started back at week one of my pushups plan and it was H A R D! 20 minutes of yoga seemed to drag but somewhat hot gym guy made me feel better. Looked forward to getting back to Wii Fit all day and despite the 30+ temperature today I walked home one train station extra. After my dinner I jumped back on the balancing board only to have it tell me I’d gained 0.7 kilos since yesterday! Whatever, Wii Fit. I put down the wiimote and tried again, and this time I had lost 0.4 kilos since yesterday. Then when I went to do my training and it had to readjust again. I might have to start ignoring the weight measurement/BMI entirely, at least in minute details day-to-day. This could make goal tracking a problem, and I’m really bummed that the board appears to be so hypersensitive.
Anyway, on to the training. Today I tried to make an attempt on each exercise just to get them all clocked up. The only one I haven’t done is the 2P jogging, and that’s because I don’t have a 2P! Lunges were a lot easier today, but I was a lot wobblier during the yoga than I was yesterday. First attempts on the pushups/side stretches, jackknife, ski jumping, table balance, and a couple of yoga poses, and I kicked ass at the jogging as well as the rhythm step exercise.
Overall I would characterise today as a disappointment, with the changeable results from the Wii balance board and my apparent slip in good posture. I am certainly sore but less exhausted than I was yesterday, despite slotting WF training into my usual routine, and I’m still very much looking forward to tomorrow, as well as unlocking more exercises.
But for now, I’m going to watch NCIS before this little lamb hits the hay.
DAY TWO
Found it really difficult to get to sleep last night and didn’t end up drifting off until after 2AM. Then up at 6:40 and off to the gym. Started back at week one of my pushups plan and it was H A R D! 20 minutes of yoga seemed to drag but somewhat hot gym guy made me feel better. Looked forward to getting back to Wii Fit all day and despite the 30+ temperature today I walked home one train station extra. After my dinner I jumped back on the balancing board only to have it tell me I’d gained 0.7 kilos since yesterday! Whatever, Wii Fit. I put down the wiimote and tried again, and this time I had lost 0.4 kilos since yesterday. Then when I went to do my training and it had to readjust again. I might have to start ignoring the weight measurement/BMI entirely, at least in minute details day-to-day. This could make goal tracking a problem, and I’m really bummed that the board appears to be so hypersensitive.
Anyway, on to the training. Today I tried to make an attempt on each exercise just to get them all clocked up. The only one I haven’t done is the 2P jogging, and that’s because I don’t have a 2P! Lunges were a lot easier today, but I was a lot wobblier during the yoga than I was yesterday. First attempts on the pushups/side stretches, jackknife, ski jumping, table balance, and a couple of yoga poses, and I kicked ass at the jogging as well as the rhythm step exercise.
Overall I would characterise today as a disappointment, with the changeable results from the Wii balance board and my apparent slip in good posture. I am certainly sore but less exhausted than I was yesterday, despite slotting WF training into my usual routine, and I’m still very much looking forward to tomorrow, as well as unlocking more exercises.
But for now, I’m going to watch NCIS before this little lamb hits the hay.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Adventures with Wii Fit
The following is a direct, unedited journal entry about my first day with Wii Fit. I'm still not sure how I'm going to keep this diary, whether offline until I have some results, or online in stages. I don't know whether I should leave it on my Livejournal, or for that matter on my laptop's hard disk, but for now I will post my initial thoughts. Feel free to skip the rest of this whole post if you aint interested in my exercise exploits, you won't find anything to enjoy from here on out!
DAY ONE
I intend to keep a diary of my experience with Wii Fit, made easier by my wonderful Macbook Pro, which will help me stay mobile and log things while my Wii Fit experiences are still fresh in my mind.
Today is Monday, the 5th of Jan, and I bought Wii Fit after a pretty extensive phone search. Post-Christmas sales made it a bit harrowing but I secured the game, board, and some rechargeable batteries. That reminds me, I better go put those on to charge now!
My first foray into Wii Fit involved setting up my Mii and putting in all my user data. My BMI is in the 40s, so Wii Fit told me to watch what I eat. I’m currently on a Lite ‘N’ Easy controlled diet so I’m not going to worry too much about that. (Check my Flickr if you're interested in seeing a sample of what I chow down on.)
So, I set a goal of losing 10 kilos in 3 months, slightly above the recommended weekly rate of weight loss. (A safe and consistent rate is apparently around 1.4 kilos a week, and I’m intending to go at 1.6)
So after my Mii got a bit of landscaping work done to its middle section, I jumped in and started with the aerobic exercises, designed to burn fat. First was the Step Basics exercise, which was pretty intimidating, because it featured some sort of Mii auditorium, packed full of people watching! I was hopeless at this, must remember to clear a space all around the board next time. Moving my feet off the board in time with the exercise’s rhythm was difficult to coordinate, as I’m not familiar with the board’s height yet. I expect this to get easier. Got one star out of four for my first attempt. Lots of room for improvement there.
Then I did some hoola-ing, which was hard to get the hang of initially but pretty fun, even though I know I looked like a total dork. I was a little concerned about the Jogging exercise because I have high blood pressure and usually avoid intensive exercises but it wasn’t too bad, I pretty much just marched on the spot but moved the Wii-mote quick enough to trick it in to thinking I was going faster.
Then I did some Muscle workouts and I have to say, this was really intense. I performed well, a three and a four star rating for the two I did, but the “lunge” exercise in particular really took it out of me. “Single leg extension” was fun!
Speaking of fun, I moved on to some balance games to wrap it up, and based on other reviews of Wii Fit I’ve read I will probably just burn through these to unlock everything and then avoid them, since they are mostly just light and fun. “Tightrope” took one false start and then a “professional” score on the second go, and I laughed every time I got smacked in the head by a flying shoe when I tried out the soccer-themed “Heading” game. I’d like to put more time into the skiing game since I was pretty tragic the first time around.
In the next few months I’ll be tracking my time spent with the Wii and reviewing at the end of each week. Today I clocked 16 minutes of actual exercise time and around 45 minutes with the game. Hopefully I can stretch that out to a full half hour in the coming weeks.
Later tonight I went back and tried out the yoga. I’ve done a bit of yoga before and three times a week I use Let’s Yoga on the DS for about 20 minutes in the morning before work. I did all of the yoga poses initially available, plus the Sun Salutation which I unlocked today, and getting that little dot to stay in the yellow circle was awesome fun, not to mention I did very well. Mostly threes but the occasional four out of four stars. Here’s my first problem with that. I know for a fact I wobble around like a maniac when I do yoga, and maybe it is my own insecurities coming through, but I’m quite sure I’m nowhere near the level of “yoga instructor” or “yoga master”. I think the Wii is being waaaay too generous here!
My other initial problem: I’m not confident in the system’s clock. I know it’s nice and neat to round out all the exercises to whole minutes, but all of that rounding is probably going to equal a lot of inaccuracies, and I don’t want to miss my goal just because I thought I had put in more time than I actually did.
A minor qualm, I guess, and having the Wii keep count for me is way more enjoyable than having to start and stop my own watch. This is especially important, because the Wii Fit board doesn’t have any buttons on it for navigating the game. You have to keep a controller handy at all times, and while I got sick of carrying it, I don’t always have pockets, especially in my workout gear. I just left the controller next to me on a coffee table and reached over to mash A when I needed to skip something or enter a command.
I’m excited for tomorrow’s session with Wii Fit, as it is the first day of my more full-on exercise regime. Pushups and yoga in the morning, half an hour of walking in the evening, and now some time with Wii Fit. I intend to do Wii Fit every day I’m at home in the evenings, which should be roughly six out of seven nights a week. Because I’m lame, and spend a lot of time at home =P
DAY ONE
I intend to keep a diary of my experience with Wii Fit, made easier by my wonderful Macbook Pro, which will help me stay mobile and log things while my Wii Fit experiences are still fresh in my mind.
Today is Monday, the 5th of Jan, and I bought Wii Fit after a pretty extensive phone search. Post-Christmas sales made it a bit harrowing but I secured the game, board, and some rechargeable batteries. That reminds me, I better go put those on to charge now!
My first foray into Wii Fit involved setting up my Mii and putting in all my user data. My BMI is in the 40s, so Wii Fit told me to watch what I eat. I’m currently on a Lite ‘N’ Easy controlled diet so I’m not going to worry too much about that. (Check my Flickr if you're interested in seeing a sample of what I chow down on.)
So, I set a goal of losing 10 kilos in 3 months, slightly above the recommended weekly rate of weight loss. (A safe and consistent rate is apparently around 1.4 kilos a week, and I’m intending to go at 1.6)
So after my Mii got a bit of landscaping work done to its middle section, I jumped in and started with the aerobic exercises, designed to burn fat. First was the Step Basics exercise, which was pretty intimidating, because it featured some sort of Mii auditorium, packed full of people watching! I was hopeless at this, must remember to clear a space all around the board next time. Moving my feet off the board in time with the exercise’s rhythm was difficult to coordinate, as I’m not familiar with the board’s height yet. I expect this to get easier. Got one star out of four for my first attempt. Lots of room for improvement there.
Then I did some hoola-ing, which was hard to get the hang of initially but pretty fun, even though I know I looked like a total dork. I was a little concerned about the Jogging exercise because I have high blood pressure and usually avoid intensive exercises but it wasn’t too bad, I pretty much just marched on the spot but moved the Wii-mote quick enough to trick it in to thinking I was going faster.
Then I did some Muscle workouts and I have to say, this was really intense. I performed well, a three and a four star rating for the two I did, but the “lunge” exercise in particular really took it out of me. “Single leg extension” was fun!
Speaking of fun, I moved on to some balance games to wrap it up, and based on other reviews of Wii Fit I’ve read I will probably just burn through these to unlock everything and then avoid them, since they are mostly just light and fun. “Tightrope” took one false start and then a “professional” score on the second go, and I laughed every time I got smacked in the head by a flying shoe when I tried out the soccer-themed “Heading” game. I’d like to put more time into the skiing game since I was pretty tragic the first time around.
In the next few months I’ll be tracking my time spent with the Wii and reviewing at the end of each week. Today I clocked 16 minutes of actual exercise time and around 45 minutes with the game. Hopefully I can stretch that out to a full half hour in the coming weeks.
Later tonight I went back and tried out the yoga. I’ve done a bit of yoga before and three times a week I use Let’s Yoga on the DS for about 20 minutes in the morning before work. I did all of the yoga poses initially available, plus the Sun Salutation which I unlocked today, and getting that little dot to stay in the yellow circle was awesome fun, not to mention I did very well. Mostly threes but the occasional four out of four stars. Here’s my first problem with that. I know for a fact I wobble around like a maniac when I do yoga, and maybe it is my own insecurities coming through, but I’m quite sure I’m nowhere near the level of “yoga instructor” or “yoga master”. I think the Wii is being waaaay too generous here!
My other initial problem: I’m not confident in the system’s clock. I know it’s nice and neat to round out all the exercises to whole minutes, but all of that rounding is probably going to equal a lot of inaccuracies, and I don’t want to miss my goal just because I thought I had put in more time than I actually did.
A minor qualm, I guess, and having the Wii keep count for me is way more enjoyable than having to start and stop my own watch. This is especially important, because the Wii Fit board doesn’t have any buttons on it for navigating the game. You have to keep a controller handy at all times, and while I got sick of carrying it, I don’t always have pockets, especially in my workout gear. I just left the controller next to me on a coffee table and reached over to mash A when I needed to skip something or enter a command.
I’m excited for tomorrow’s session with Wii Fit, as it is the first day of my more full-on exercise regime. Pushups and yoga in the morning, half an hour of walking in the evening, and now some time with Wii Fit. I intend to do Wii Fit every day I’m at home in the evenings, which should be roughly six out of seven nights a week. Because I’m lame, and spend a lot of time at home =P
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