Sunday will be the fourth week I have been a WiiFit junkie. I love everything about that silly toy & I am kicking myself for not buying one sooner. Ever since it arrived, I get out of bed, I have my coffee & I weigh in. I warm up with something light, I do stretches & I do yoga before getting on the elliptical (an actual elliptical, alas Wii has no such machine tie in or I would own it). After the elliptical interruption I get back on that board for another 45 minutes or so. I am addicted & mostly it is a good thing.
You should know that I have never been one of those exercise people. I have taken a few classes, mostly of the Pilates variety (I am unbalanced, no really) because I am more interested in what a fit body can do (stay on a horse, for example) than what it looks like. A flat stomach would be truly wasted on me & good thing , too, because it is never going to happen.
I am also not temperamentally suited to public work-out environments. I listen to books on disc when I ride, often deliberately choosing books I dislike; they make me so angry & I work harder. This also means I shout things like "you stupid, stupid whore" or "do the f*cking math, asshole" which can be alarming to the people around me.
Finally, I really only have two speeds: I don't want to be here & let's get this over with. V** refers to my exercise personality as Crazy Chihuahua & more than once I have looked up to see A laughing at me. So you can see how the stay-at-home Wii is a win:win.
Today I discovered the Wii's big drawback. It seems all this cavalier careening off of cliffs, only to magically reappear safe & sound has had a negative effect in my driving. I am singing along with the radio "oh I tried to make it Sunday but I got so damn depressed" -there is no radio in this town- & I find myself drifting across the lanes. Whoops! Apparently I need a cartoon-a-scape & maybe a clown car across my windshield just to keep things interesting.
Yours is the best recommendation for a WiiFit I've seen so far... I think I need to find someone who has one and try it out (when they're not around, preferably)
ReplyDeleteL***** and I have the same video game system (not a Wii) and have discussed the effect on our driving of long-term playing "Crash Team Racing". Now that A****** plays, too there is this little voice that pops up from the back seat sometimes and says, "shoot him with the missile!"
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