A recent lunch conversation turned to my recently purchased Wii Fit. I get a ton of questions every time I mention that we have one, so I thought I’d review it here on Your Blog. First let me say that my family has fallen head over heels for the Wii. My couch potato daughter even loves it. So when the Fit was previewed, I decided we should get it.
It comes with a balance board as the input gadget and allows you to do a whole range of new exercises and games. It has a virtual personal trainer and four game types: Yoga, Balance Games, Strength Training and Aerobics. The yoga is really interesting and challenging because not only do you do the poses, but it tracks your balance and shows you a visual graph of your movement during the pose. The balance meter brings a whole new dimension to the “usual” yoga. Wiifanboy does an awesome lengthy review of the yoga features if you want more.
The Wii Fit site has a neat demo of the balance indicator. The balance games are awesome. They take all sorts of challenges and use them to help you better understand how you use posture and balance in every task. The snow skiing is challenging for us self-proclaimed speed demons… but I’m getting there.
If you think you have balance, try the table tilt. That one beats me down every time. The strength training is well done and surprisingly challenging for a weightless setup. The aerobics is also addictive. They have done a nice job in masking the workout in fun games. So you ask… how well does it work? Well for us it is still too early to tell, but to watch the true test follow Mark as he tries to use it to “take the chubby out of a man.”
Overall my family loves it and is totally addicted. Interestingly enough my 13-year-old daughter is now a yoga guru … who would have known!
June 11th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Too bad they are in such short supply.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
In this area the stores have plenty of them jervis961. They don`t seem to be selling well here.
June 19th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I finally gave up and overpaid on Ebay. I searched everywhere and couldn’t find them.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Set up the Wii Fit today and had a blast. I was surprised at how sore I got from playing. It has a few bugs in the Fit age thing but I’ll overlook that. Oh, don’t bother askign what my BMI was.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Jervis- Yea, just wait until you have used it for a few days… you get really sore then!