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Dartful Dodger:
Chat live with Tony Horton!
Monday, November 24th, at 7:00 PM CT
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I tried the Wii fit yesterday. It's fun, but I'm not sure if it's a real work out. Although anything that gets you off your butt is something. Plus the daily weigh in could be useful.
My nephew has been playing it every day for a month and he's obsessed with it. What's funny is he's more interested in the results his Mii is getting from the game than the actual health results he could be getting.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on November 17, 2008, 01:11:10 pm ---Chat live with Tony Horton!
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Eh, not sure I could deal with that guy in person. I know the movitational/sales part of this is necessary for many people but it gets on my nerves after a while. I don't want the guy continually yelling motivation at me. If I weren't motivated I wouldn't be doing it to begin with. And stop selling it to me once I already have it. I can't see someone buying a second copy.
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 17, 2008, 02:32:04 pm ---I don't want the guy continually yelling motivation at me. If I weren't motivated I wouldn't be doing it to begin with.
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His timing is pretty good. The first time did the Yoga DVD I was ready to quit, I told my friend that I was too sore from doing all the other work outs and I figured 45 minutes of Yoga was enough. Just as I was grabbing my water bottle Tony yells something like don't give up now the hard part is over...
It was creepy. he did that a few other times, like when he said "if the warm up is killing you wait till we start the work out", right after I said something like ”…and this just the warm up”.
the dude is 50 and he looks younger than me. Maybe some of that is due to surgery, make up and dye, but he can’t fake that body.
--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 17, 2008, 02:25:53 pm ---Admittedly I look a little stupid jogging in circles in my living room with a wiimote in my pocket but meh.
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I didn't have time to do much of the Wii fit. All I tried was the ski jump and hoola hoop game.
I can guarantee you didn't look as stupid as me hoola hooping with an imaginary hoola hoop.
ChadTower:
Shoulders/arms and then ab ripper X. Both done.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 17, 2008, 02:25:53 pm ---
If I had to guess, I'd say that 45 minutes of it is probably a 400-500 calorie workout.
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I've only played with Wii Fit for a total of about 10 minutes, none of it strenuous, but I'm gonna go with my gut and say that's a REALLY generous estimate. When I go to the gym and run two miles on the treadmill I only get ~250 calories out of that. That's like 15 minutes of nonstop running at level 7 plus about 3 minutes of cool-down at level 4 and 2 minutes at level 1. By my math, you're saying that Wii fit is roughly as good a workout as that, i.e., if I doubled my cardio from 20 minutes to 40 minutes I'd be working out for about the same as long as your Wii Fit workout, and I'd burn ~500 calories.
Now, granted, I'm small and light (5'6" ~133 lbs), so you might burn more calories running 2 miles on a treadmill than I do. But I just don't think 45 minutes on Wii fit is going to burn close to 400 calories for anyone. But, like I say, I have very little concrete information to base this opinion on. Just my gut instinct.
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