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Wendy playing wii fit with clapping hands

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:23:46 +0000

Wendy playing wii fit with clapping hands

Is Your Team Wii Fit?

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:09:41 +0000

This holiday season I received the Wii Fit software game. Now I have purchased several Wii games in the past year, so Wii is not new to me. But this Wii Fit has been a very popular software program, so I was curious, what made it so popular? For those who don’t know about Wii or Wii Fit, you need to get outside more often, but I’ll explain. Wii is a software video system, like X-Box or PlayStation. You buy video games such as shooting games, sporting activity games, educational games etc. In recent years these gaming systems have become very sophisticated and interactive. Well back to my Wii Fit….

As we all know, exercising is not a fun activity for most people. Even though we know it is good for us, we make excuses for putting it off. I wondered what made this exercise video so compelling and then it hit me, motivation! I love when science and technology catch up with me.

I explain how to motivate and improve your work teams, using terms like enjoyable, passionate, and focused on the individual. Well, Wii Fit is using those same traits to have us workout.

First, the Wii Fit platform measures our weight, asks our age, determines our balance and starts us with beginner exercises, in other words assessing our personal traits. Next, we are given a variety of activities that determine what exercises we excel at. The exercises are thoroughly explained and we are encouraged throughout the exercises, just like a manager should do with their team. The Wii Fit measures how well we do with our balance and accuracy as we perform these exercises. My performance is ranked based on past performances, so I have an analysis of how well I’m doing. I am always striving to beat my last performance.

Wii Fit gives us a series of activities under the heading of Yoga, Strength Training, Aerobics and Games, so we don’t get bored. Even the Games category is having us do fitness activities disguised as games and ranking our success. We receive recognition as we improve.

There is also a heading called Favorites where your best activities are automatically stored so you can continue to work on the exercises you are good at. This Wii Fit is motivating me to perform tasks that I didn’t think I would like, in a way that is enjoyable, measurable, and using my best skills.

How about your work teams? Do you know where each member’s talents lie? Have you found a way to incorporate those talents towards your organizations goals? Are your team members given a record of how they are doing, not against someone else, who have different talents and characteristics, but ranking their successes against themselves based on how they have done in the past? Are your teammates given specific instructions how they can improve their present ranking? I think this Wii Fit has something here. Maybe next year there will be a Wii Sales, Wii Communication or Wii Customer Service. Hmmmm, then what will I do.

I need to leave now because I need to beat my scores from yesterday.

By: Kenny Zail

Are Wii Kidding Ourselves?

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:47:55 +0000

The Nintendo Wii Fit was released to the public recently with much ballyhoo. If you haven’t seen the Nintendo Wii game system, it is the latest evolution in video game playing where players use the remote to mimic real-life actions such as a tennis forehand. The players’ physical actions are then played out on the screen.

The Wii Fit is a “game” that according to the Nintendo website can increase your fitness levels. “By playing Wii Fit a little every day, you, your friends, and your family can work towards personal goals of better health and fitness,” the site claims. While I have yet to use the game at all, I can say that I am highly skeptical that this will make a dent into America’s growing obesity problem.

The Wii Fit comes with a balance board that the player uses to interact with the game. When you first start the game, the Wii Fit assesses your balance – which is important in your overall health, but is usually not a concern to anyone who is not a senior citizen or recovering from injury.

It then moves on to perform the Body Test, which is more balance assessment, followed by the calculation of Body Mass Index (or BMI). BMI is a very flawed measure of one’s fitness, as it measures the ratio of one’s scale weight to one’s height. So, on the BMI scale, the following people are considered Overweight or Obese:
Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees Tom Brady of the New England Patriots Lance Armstrong of cycling fame Arnold Schwarzenegger Sylvester Stallone

See where I’m going with this? Scale weight does not account for the amount of lean body mass someone is carrying. That is why body fat percentage is the gold standard for measuring one’s fitness.

Also, measuring BMI on anyone under 19 is very inaccurate. This already has become an issue for Nintendo, as a 10-year old athletic British girl was assessed as being Fat by the game. Obesity experts jumped on Nintendo immediately, rightfully stating that the game could cause irreparable harm to a child’s body image. Nintendo has since added a disclaimer that the BMI feature is meant for adults only, but hasn’t taken the step of deactivating it in the game for child users.

The game goes on to calculate a Wii Fit Age for the user based on your balance test results, actual age, etc. Again, this is a very shaky measure of one’s fitness that could mislead people.

The Training section of the game is broken down into four sections: Yoga, Balance Games, Strength Training and Aerobics, all of which can be done without spending the $89.95 suggested retail price for Wii Fit.

Let’s break down the Strength Training section as an example of some of the flaws in this game. The first exercise is a Single Leg Extension, which is more of an exercise in balance than a strength training exercise. Also, leg extensions do not mimic a real life use of the leg, and the leg extension machine is perhaps one of the worst machines in the gym.

The next exercise is torso twists, which is more of a dynamic stretch than a strength building exercise, especially in the absence of any weighted bar or dumbbells. That is followed by the push-up and side plank. Now, I’m a big fan of both of these exercises, but they are not for the de-conditioned. Most men are not capable of doing pushups with correct form, and women usually start out with the modified push-up until they have the strength to do regular form.

The next exercise, jack-knifes, is for people who are advanced in their training. It violates one of the basic principles of fitness professionals around the world – never put a de-conditioned person on their back on the floor for anything. Lastly, the game makes the user perform lunges, which are great muscle builders. However, like stated before, you don’t need to buy a game system to do them.

Overall, I give Nintendo credit for trying to make a game that tries to get people to be more active, which is more than can be said for other video game manufacturers. However, this will not do anything in terms of chipping away at the American obesity problem. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say that the video game industry needs to follow the route of the tobacco and alcohol manufacturers, and state that excessive use of their product could lead to inactivity and obesity, rather than try to make a half-hearted effort at increasing American activity levels.

Rather than letting your kids play Wii Fit while you watch TV in the other room, here are some things that you can do together:
Go for a brisk walk Group session with a personal trainer Navigate a confidence course Play catch with a football or baseball Kick a soccer ball around One-one-one basketball Walk and play a par 3 golf course Family yard work or snow shoveling!

You’ll save money on electricity and form stronger bonds with your kids as you increase your fitness levels together.

By: Matthew Lisk

The Biggest Loser Wii Game

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:28:06 +0000

People and visitors of E3 famous conference where all the gaming leaders reveal their new innovations, were all shocked to see some new Wii games revealed. Nintendo and its team said that their fitness based games were most successful and they will continue with launching more fitness genre games in future. After the huge success of Wii Fit or My Fitness Coach here is another game which brings fitness workout and program to your home – The Biggest Loser Wii game.

The game has been titled after the famous fitness course of Bob and Jillian Michaels who are now your personal fitness trainers in this virtual game which provides players a huge collection of workout, nutrition tips and help to lose weight and gain muscles in fast time! The game is already a huge success and producers are aiming for top chart positions in some weeks time, we will see!

Bob and Jillian Michaels in The Biggest Loser for Wii will help you get through different weekly goals of fitness workout and challenges which you have to achieve if you want to go for more advanced exercises and harder programs. You must be prepared for a sweat routine and hard workout which really work!

For more specific muscle building players can choose what type of muscle category they want to work on and thanks to Jillian and Bob you get weekly based program to work on. On start of each week you choose a goal and by the end of the week you must achieve it!

The game play provides the Wii balance board as support in the game for many different exercises. So the proudly owners of Wii Fit can have more fun and get max out of the game and progress! You will also get more than 50 different recipes and nutrition tips for healthier life and faster progress.

By: M G Greg

Renamon Playing Wii Fit ^w^

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:46:36 +0000

Err. This was my first fursuit~ I decided to do Renamon for the Calgary Otafest 2008. Well, New Years Parties always seem to drone on in boredom at my house, therefore, we played Wii fit, in costumes for the hell of it. :] Renamon was playing the Hula Hoop game if your wondering. 8D … I kept leaning in the wrong direction though… ^w^

Wii Fit Guide

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:08:19 +0000

The Wii Fit is a game for the Nintendo Wii console. Instead of a hand-held controller, it uses something called a Balance Board. The Balance Board is a Wii Fit device that looks like a bathroom scale without the numbers, and a bit wider. It is wireless, so it just sits on the floor in the middle of your workout area where you can use it best. It detects pressure, and detects where the pressure is in relation to the center of the board. The Wii Fit game uses that pressure/location to figure out what motions you are performing during an exercise or game.

For example, during the Hula Hoop game, it asks you to move your hips in a circle like you are spinning a hula hoop. Your Mii character on the screen is spinning a hula hoop. The Balance Board can trace your balance as it shifts around in circles while you spin your hips. The faster you are shifting your weight, the faster the Mii character spins its hips (and the higher and faster the hula hoop spins).

As another example, during Step Aerobics, the game has you moving through a routine of stepping on and off of the board. If you are supposed to move your right foot off the board, it can detect how your weight is shifting as you lift your right foot and move it off. It is sophisticated enough to detect that you have lifted the wrong foot, and sometimes it can even detect if you moved your right foot to the right of the board when you are supposed to move it back, based on the way your body’s balance shifts on the board.

There are 4 categories of Wii Fit games: Yoga, Aerobics, Strength and Balance Games. The Yoga games are designed for increasing balance, flexibility, and core strength. It uses many of the standard Yoga poses that you would encounter at a local Yoga class. The Aerobics games force you to get your heart-rate up. Strength exercises build muscles in the various groups. Balance Games aren’t exercises…they are just plain fun. For example, the ski jump forces you to squat down as you race down the ramp, and stand up quickly to take off (otherwise you simply fall off the ramp).

By: George Halt

Compatible Wii MotionPlus Games

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:47:00 +0000

Currently the best video game console providing gaming fans a new experience of game play is the Nintendo Wii. Their team and staff is doing an amazing job and games publishers like Ubi Soft or Activision also. In 2008 year Wii Fit has been one of their top games and now in 2009 they have made another new innovation titled Wii MotionPlus. It is an accessory which gets placed under the Wii remote and it enchants the game play of the new games titled Wii MotionPlus games.

With this new innovation players get more accurate swings and their speed limit is higher than with basic remote. That enables to have more accurate realistic movements which convert into virtual ones with 1:1 ratio. It means that now every movement that you make is more accurate than before. The new accessory is already a huge success and thanks to it new Nintendo Wii games have been already released. Games which work with the new accessory are titled Wii MotionPlus games and they work specificaly with it, providing players better game play, golf swings, tennis racket swings, sports gaming and much much more!

Here is the list of currently best games which work with this new accessory:

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 – One of the best new series golf game for Nintendo console now enables players to have more accurate swings and better realistic golf sport playing. Wii Sports Resort – The new sequel brings sports that you have not been able to play before. Sports like disc dog, power cruising, sword play and much more. Enjoying them on tropical island. Red Steel 2 – Another new sequel game brings action based sword fight also with gun shooting. Thanks to new accessory game play and playing is much better than in first series game. The game is a huge success already! Academy of Champions – Latest game bringing football sport into Nintendo. Pele been your coach you and your team of skilled players ready to win the Champions Cup. EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis – More accurate racket swings, better game play and more tennis starts ready to play with. Be the top tennis player in this currently one of the best tennis Wii games on the market!

By: M G Greg

Wii Fit Tips – A Health-Promoting Game

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 02:15:36 +0000

Wii Fit is a game that uses exercise routines to give people a boost to indulge in real life exercise activities. It is now used as a part of fitness regimens by professionals and for personal use alike. To help you get the most out of this health-promoting game, here are some Wii Fit tips that you can use to guide you.

The first and most important tip is to play the game everyday. The basic principle of this game is the introduction to exercise, by playing it everyday eventually you will be giving your body and mind the attention that they need to stay healthy and seek out other workout options. At the same time, you are able to have fun with the game unlocking contents and new exercise routines.

The second tip is to have patience. It is going to take plenty of time and energy to go to a higher level and repetitions. Though it is just a playful game, you should know that to unlock contents of the game level by level, it can be considered as a hardcore game. To unlock the content quicker, obviously you need to play it longer.

The third tip is to stay true to the principles of the game by not indulging in cheats. A half an hour of balance games is not really exercise. You can always choose to go for the exercises that will cause you to break a sweat such as strength training, advanced step, yoga and boxing. This will really push you to your limits and get you into the game.

Last but not least, use Wii Fit to complement with other forms of workout. This game is designed with the main aim to get people to be aware of their health. With regularity you will see an improvement in your overall health as you shed those extra kilos. Keep these Wii Fit tips in mind when you start your challenge.

By: Francis Murphy

PS3 Fit – Playing Wii Fit on PS3

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:50:18 +0000

This is how you can “play” Wii Fit on PS3, combining the power of one of the most interactive home aerobics system with one of the best video players…

6yo boy playing Wii Fit

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 01:48:18 +0000

My son playing Wii Fit