{"id":1692,"date":"2008-07-06T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2008-07-06T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T14:55:00","slug":"wiiiiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"Wiiiiii!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I posted yesterday, we’re getting rid of our treadmill. One of the reasons for this is that my father got us an early Christmas gift – a Wii Fit!<\/a> The funniest comment I’ve heard so far was from someone on Ravelry – they said they weren’t getting one because it was too hard to turn into a clothes rack. Heh.
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\n<\/a>Right away, the wii fit and I got off on the wrong foot. See, the platform is also a scale, so it measures you when you start it up. You give it your height, it takes your weight, and gives you your BMI. Not so bad, except that based on this information, it also creates your mii, the little avatar that represents you. At left: my short, fat little mii. Sigh. Well, I guess it will be a motivator.<\/p>\n

Other than that, though, this thing’s been great! Mr. Tvini and I crank it up after Em goes to bed and take turns on the platform. So far we’ve discovered that I am very good at the yoga and balance exercises. This is unsurprising – even though I have a short fat mii, I come from a family of archers, sharpshooters, and gymnasts. At right: a woman doing yoga. Obviously, this is not me.
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\nWhen Mr. Tvini takes the platform, on the other hand, anything that requires standing on one leg for a long time puts the surrounding furniture in mortal peril. Mr. Tvini favors the strength exercises, such as lunges, plank pushups<\/a> and this ab jackknife torture<\/strike> exercise. I couldn’t do plank pushups if my life hung in the balance, so I figure we’re even.<\/p>\n

When you begin, there are only a limited number of exercises available. You have to use the wii fit for a certain amount of time, stored in your “time bank” in order to unlock features like challenges, greater repetitions, or more difficult exercises. I suppose this is Nintendo’s way of being sure they don’t get sued when someone gets too ambitious out of the box and keels over. It’s probably a good idea.<\/p>\n

The thing that made Mr. Tvini suggest we get rid of our treadmill was that the wii fit also offers running. In fact, it lets two people run together. You don’t use the platform; instead you hold the controller in your hand and run in place. It does a pretty good job of tracking your motion and matching your (short fat) mii’s speed to your actual “speed.” So last night we ran together in our den for the short distance, which is about four minutes, and unlocked the longer distance. This seems useful for times when I can’t leave the house, and for the summertime, when it’s a billion degrees outside and I’m not going out without protective heat shielding.<\/p>\n

There is a down side to the platform also being a scale. Mr. Tvini stepped off it last night before it was completely done weighing him, and it thinks he lost about 150 pounds overnight. His mii got very thin very fast. It took us a lot of messing around to erase that result. The other half of this is that our bathroom scale says I haven’t lost any weight at all since beginning to use this – but it does say that I’ve lost a point of body fat. The wii fit platform won’t know this, I’ll just think I’m as big as lardass as I was when I started. As long as I feel good, I won’t get hung up on numbers, but others might. I also wish the exercises were a bit more vigorous, but perhaps as I unlock longer durations and new moves, they will be.<\/p>\n

We’re really enjoying our early Christmas gift. Thanks so much, Dad, you’re the best!
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