{"id":136,"date":"2009-01-24T05:51:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-01-23T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T21:45:39","slug":"a-month-of-wii-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/a-month-of-wii-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Wii Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Wii Fit casually for a month now, and it has found its way into my exercise routine. I don&#8217;t use it quite every day, but it&#8217;s pretty close &#8211; for the last two weeks I only skipped one day of exercise &#8211; not all of it was on the Wii Fit, but it&#8217;s because of the Wii Fit that I got so close. That&#8217;s not too bad considering all the schedule changes we&#8217;ve had with a newborn in the house. Here&#8217;s what I like about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s easy to use.<\/strong> My favorite part about the Wii Fit is how easy to use it is. The balance board fits under our TV stand, so it&#8217;s out of the way, but you still notice it if it&#8217;s not there. You can do the Body Test portion of the game without the game disc, which is a plus because that means you can do a Body Test even if there&#8217;s another game loaded in the Wii. There are plenty of mini-games that are entertaining, but I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of the Free Step, which is great because you can do it while you (or someone else) watch TV. That means I don&#8217;t have to interrupt our schedule too much if I want to get in a 30 minute exercise in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It keeps you coming back.<\/strong> There are plenty of games in Wii Fit to try to master, but the part that keeps me coming back is the graphs and charts of each day. I have a Fitness game on the XBox, but I didn&#8217;t use it as much because there wasn&#8217;t a real incentive to come back each day. Keeping track of my weight each day keeps me more conscious about my eating and exercise habits, which is great. The longer I use it for, the more interesting the data becomes, as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s fun!<\/strong> There&#8217;s a lot of different games on here, and the idea of beating my own records is a lot of fun. Julia started exercising this week with the Wii Fit, so that means more friendly competition! She&#8217;s already beat a few of my records. Even little 22-lb. Emmy gets into the game, and she&#8217;s great at the Soccer Ball and Skiing games (as long as she remembers not to get off the board!) This isn&#8217;t the best game if you&#8217;re looking for entertainment or excitement, but if you think of it more as an exercise tool, then you&#8217;ll keep coming back, too. It&#8217;s fun to show it to new people, and even my mom talks about playing the Wii Fit when she comes to visit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first month with Wii Fit has been great. I&#8217;ve already lost over seven pounds, even with quite a few days of overindulgence. For me it has been a great motivator, and I plan to keep using it for many more months. Next month for me will be a big test because my coursework will be a lot heavier, but it&#8217;s so easy to incorporate into my regular routine that I plan on sticking with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Wii Fit casually for a month now, and it has found its way into my exercise routine. I don&#8217;t use it quite every day, but it&#8217;s pretty close &#8211; for the last two weeks I only skipped one day of exercise &#8211; not all of it was on the Wii Fit, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fefnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}