Wii - to lose weight?

[Pedal Wench]

The downhill skiing is not natural to how one would do it on the slopes. You have to lean on the side you would normally NOT lean to change direction you want to go. Annoys the heck out of my BF who's a very experienced downhill skier.

Can you turn the board around backwards?

[buddha_bellies]

Can you turn the board around backwards?

No, I wish it was that easy... darn thing is too smart to fool

[tzvia]

Been using the Wii for about 4 months, two to four times a week. I like that it forces me to weigh myself and admit to myself that I am overweight, and it tracks my exercise and daily weight changes.

As for the actual exercises, I see it more as warmup (yoga), toning (strength-training), calorie burning (aerobics), and cooldown (balance) and run through them in that order for a total of about an hour. As I bought a fluid trainer last month, I have been doing alternating Wii/trainer during the week, and ride on Saturday/Sunday, with Fridays off. Yea, been loosing weight slowly as I am not 'dieting', just cutting out the garbage (like the icecream I used to eat after dinner). Since June when I started riding again, I lost about 25 lbs. Have another 25 to go.

New diet/exercise titles are being released now; I saw one at Toys-R-Us as I was holiday shopping a few weeks ago.

[greycoral]

I just bought a game called My Fitness Coach. All I've done so far is the profile and about 5 minutes of a workout (I'm sick right now), but it looks like it'll be challenging, and I'm used to working out 5 days a week. It's more set up like an interactive dvd or something, but I really like it, and it doesn't use Wii Fit (I just bought a wii, and couldn't afford the fit part too). I got it off Amazon about a week ago, and it was on sale for only $30, looks like it is back up to $45 now though.

[StressFree]

I don't know if the Wii helps you lose weight but it certainly is a fun way to get a workout. Wii Fit is great for anyone who isn't a total gym rat/exercise maniac. My favorite Wii games are tennis and WarioWare: Smooth Moves. Both will keep you moving, though my sister claims Wii Tennis actually works against the mechanisms of real tennis (I have not noticed this) and says she got a sprained elbow.

[beccaB]

I agree with the fact that it's a good place to start and a good way to keep track and be accountable to yourself. My daughter has one and she takes it back to college with her. I was mildly irritated that it made my "mii" (spelling?) fatter than I see myself! The balance and yoga thing on it is something good because I'm not likely to do that stuff even though I probably should.

[divingbiker]

I just bought a game called My Fitness Coach. All I've done so far is the profile and about 5 minutes of a workout (I'm sick right now), but it looks like it'll be challenging, and I'm used to working out 5 days a week. It's more set up like an interactive dvd or something, but I really like it, and it doesn't use Wii Fit (I just bought a wii, and couldn't afford the fit part too). I got it off Amazon about a week ago, and it was on sale for only $30, looks like it is back up to $45 now though.

I got My Fitness Coach for my sister for Christmas, and did it a few times while I was visiting her. I liked it, except it relied a lot on jumping jacks for the cardio part, which cause horrible flashbacks to junior high for me. (I also don't usually have a jumping-jack-proof bra on when I'm exercising at home.)

But I liked it because you could set your own exercise time, and do strength, cardio, yoga, etc. Seemed more challenging than Wii Fit.