After a friend started playing Wii Fit, I remembered my family had bought it as well. I in all honesty forget that we have a Wii all together. It’s always in the lounge and never gets played. My family are basically the typical Wii owners, they buy the Wii with several games and never play and buy products for it again. The last time they used Wii Fit was 209 days ago. Disgraceful.
Recently I’ve started to seriously try and lose weight. (lost 2.5lb’s in my first week baby!) My plan was to hit the gym today but I had to wait at home for the people from the garage to pick up my car. So I picked the next best alternative (If you’re only option is at home) Wii Fit.
The game asked me to register some personal information. Height, age and National Insurance Number. Then using the the magic that is the balance board they worked out my weight and BMI. Ok, I’m far from the thinnest guy in the world, I have myself quite the belly but I would never consider myself obese. According to the BMI scale I am obese with a score of 32. It’s a stereotypical excuse but I am quite big boned in nature. I’m overweight, but obese? That’s pushing it, if I don’t say so. To be fair, it’s not like they can use any other method to what is little more than a fancy weighing machine.
The board itself is a nice shape, though it’s a little of the small side in terms of length. They say the board was made for the average American male. That’s nice, but if you are anything over a size 9 (UK) it’s too small. If you are going to design something you need to look at both sides of the average, not just the average and below, technically you are missing at a huge portion of your market there. You need to at least work out the standard deviation to find out the general lengths people fall into, this is simple statistics! I wouldn’t say my feet are huge being a size 10/11, but my feet only just slightly overhang if I’m keeping them straight. Which is a little uncomfortable and makes it slightly harder to keep my balance since I can’t keep myself 100% flat on the board.
Throughout the beginning of my experience I had a nice friendly talking balance board to keep me company and get me through the basics. How he can talk in he first place is beyond me. The slit down the middle looks like an arse crack. So he is literally talking out of his arse. Later he decided he was no longer needed and stated that he could no longer talk to me because I will be standing on him for now on. Isn’t he funny. Ha, well the joke is on him. I’ve been standing on him the whole time. Take that Arse Face!
To start off I tried out some of the Aerobics excerises, namely the Super Hula Hoop, now that one just requires you to move you hibs in a big circle motion and try and catch the extra hoops. It took me a while to get the hang on it, now I hula like a pro. I took my hand at that stepping game, rhythm punching and jogging. While jogging I noticed a bunch of school kids making their way to the field for P.E. “What suckers” I thought. 
They will be running around outside while I can do it from he comfort of my living room. That quickly changed when I noticed that they may be able to see me jogging around on the spot like an idiot with a Wiimote in my pocket. Then came the dilemma. Do I stop and wait for them to pass or carry on and get a high score. I was torn I just stared outside the window just hoping they don’t see me. Nothing feels worse than having 14 year old brats laughing at you, it’s humiliating. Thankfully they never noticed, they were probably too busy talking about the latest shitty techno metal oprea bands.
The Board itself is rather impressive, it picks up your movements pretty well and is quite accurate. It finds my centre of gravity easily and can tell what type of body movement I am making, well to the best a balance board can get. For the first few go’s I didn’t realise the board was the wrong way round and that was the reason why I was messing up so badly. You would think it would notice I was doing everything the wrong way round.
After over an hour of in-game exercising I was done. Current opinions? It’s a decent fitness program, there are certain levels of fun can be had with it. I did end up sweating more than expected but it’s nothing compared to actually going to the gym. It’s a nice extra program to use in conjunction with your current fitness plan. Can’t say I want to use it as an alternative to the gym. My target is to loose 1 and a half stone in 2 weeks….Wish me luck.
Current Weight change: 0 (It’s only been 1 day)
