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Does anyone use Wii Fit for exercise? We just bought a Wii and the Wii Fit, and I am hoping that it will be fun and therefore motivate me to exercise!

Carolyn

I use it and love it. However, I use it more for a scale than for anything else.

I figured that a really good bathroom scale would cost between 50 and 80 dollars. I spent a little more and got the wii fit and it is a great scale!

I weigh in on Saturday mornings and consider it the ultimate truth on my weight.

The games are good. The yoga is good. I know it sounds crazy, but I know that it has helped my balance. I love being able to see the little red dot and hoping that I am getting better.

I get made fun of but I think it is a great tool.

The first time my teenage daughter tried it, she spent almost 2 hours playing with the workouts, and worked up a pretty good sweat. She has weight issues as well, so I figure that we made a good purchase if she is having fun and working out! I am going to do it tonight, while hubby hits the gazelle. I can't wait to try the yoga workout - it was one of the reasons that I wanted to get it. Also, weighing on it would be good, because I have doubts about how good our scale is. I always weigh less at the doctor's office than I do at home.

Carolyn

I LOVE the Wii Fit! Do it every morning. I upgraded to Wii Fit Plus (you probably have that version since you just purchased your Wii Fit) and find the new workouts incredible. My husband and I challenge each other to see who can have the lowest Wii Fit Age. Yesterday I was 24! (He was 34. HA!)

Lately, I switch between Fit and Wii Active. In fact, I just finished a 30 day challenge yesterday.

That's what I like about the Wii. You can change your workout so often, you never get bored.

It's fun to watch not only my weight go down, but my scale also tracks the percentage of fat on my body... when my weight doesn't go down, the fat percentage generally nose dives.

I LOVE my Wii.

Beth

We bought a wii for the kids for xmas and a wii fit for me.(hopefully my hubby will use it too) What is wii active? Is it used on the wii fit board? is it more advanced? Our wii won't be opened until tomorrow and i am sure the kids will monopolize it until school goes back on Jan. 4th. Are there any other exercise games for the wii fit?

Here's the website for Wii Active:

http://www.easportsactive.com/home.action

It's a more traditional exercise program, you use a leg strap, nunchuck, and wii-mote to track your movements on the television. It's fun to watch your avatar move the same time you do. It's a great workout, you can do 30 day challenges as well as work out with a partner on a split screen. Very fun, nice accompaniment to the Wii Fit.

Beth

Hey Deb,

Wii Fit Plus is an upgrade that has more activities, well worth the 20 smackers. I think Wii Fit Plus comes standard with all new Wii Fits.

Sorry the EA Active for Wii website site confused you. Perhaps a google of "EA Active for Wii" will lead you to a site that'll be more user friendly.

Because the Wii is so movement-friendly, you'll find a bunch of fitness software for it. I think that's cool. On days I don't want to do a body test, I use Wii Active. On days I want to play more than exercise, I use Wii Fit. Both are great. I picked up Wii Fitness Coach for my husband for Christmas. So far, he likes it. It's nice to have a variety, especially during these long Minnesota winters.

Have a great day,

Beth

i love it but it yells at me! like when was the last time I was on it! I do like the bowling the best....am lousy with the balance games and the strength training due to limited space in the rv....

Thanks for the reply and the link Beth. I will get the active when I start to get bored. I have a treadmill but I find it hard to get motivated to get started so I will have to make playing wiifit on contingent that I do 1/2 hour on the treadmill first which will hopefully be enough exercise in total and more motivating. Any amount of exercise is better than what I am doing now.

I have the wii fit and didn't use it as much as I should. For Christmas from the girls requested Biggest Loser workout for wii and boy howdy they have some great workout.

I worked out and the next day was in loads of pain. Today I'm taking it easy the couch potatoe need to get into it gradually.

I recommend for ones not able to get out in the cold weather and walk.

Cathy

Good thread!

We got the wii fit LAST Christmas, but I didn't try it till this New Years (part of that I am s0-going-to-get-active resolution). Plus it was originally downstairs in the rec room and out of sight is out of mind. New Years eve I brought it up and set it in the main living room.

Set up my mii on New Years day and hit the board. Immediately had the dang thing insult me. (You have very poor balance, do you trip a lot?) Funny part is yes, yes I do trip a lot. Am a clutz actually.

So I ran on the spot, stretched, tried to ski jump, hula hooped till I was out of breath and proved over and over just how bad my balance was. It was FUN! I have managed to get back to it every second day and I just love the little reminders and comments. (Although I noticed when I put in my height and weight the wii-gods made my mii shorter and fatter than I had set. LOL. So much for self delusion.)

When my husband stepped on we thought it said "ouch". The kids tell me that's not what it was.

In any case, it's a cool way to get moving.

So it WAS ouch!? Cheeky, isn't it? I have just been reading up on EA Active for the wii and I think I know what to ask for on my birthday.

my wii fit says I am in the normal area for bmi but yells at me all the time for how long it has been since i used it. It also asks me if I trip...NO I have scoliosis and never have balanced well on one leg!

Ed gets on, it tells him he is obese, not undertall like he thinks he is and also thinks he is a dog...weird! He really just needs longer legs! He has lost 20 lbs by eating part of my stuff...

no actually he is undertall...he is about 5'6 or 7...for the rest of him he should be 6'...He is muscular and very fit...more than I am from all his years of underwater bridge inspection for the State of Florida but he has a 26" inseam for pants. I have to shorten everything he buys! He is short on his legs!