Wii - to lose weight?

[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.