My Tiny Little Fitness Blog – OR – Wii, Wii, Wii, All the Way Home.

Helloooo… yes, I’m still here and kicking… accidentally kicking stuff around the house and then being in pain, but still kicking. I actually have gotten several people wondering what happened to my blog. Well… it… uh… went no where. It’s still… .uh… here… just nothing new posted… I hate to bother people with “Today, I got a hangnail” type stuff. I want meaty stuff to write about. You know, a prime rib type stuff. Mmmmm… - Great, now I’m hungry.

Let’s see… I told you about the 5-point buck without really trying… My knee problems before that… Hmmm… A change in meds. The migraines that happen mostly in the winter…. Blah, blah, blah… Really nothing note worthy.

BUT, as the title might suggest, I got a Wii Fit, thanks to my best friends, L&J.

Wait… Back up…

Remember that I hate exercising. I mean it’s a 10-letter dirty word to me. The ickiest thing about it is the feeling of sweat dripping everywhere… off my boobs, down my backside… and mostly on my face… Blech… So, little do I know a visit with L&J would end up with me having a withdrawal over the stupid thing after going home. So, here I am… a (muffled) year old woman with an addiction to this evil thing.

To begin you have to create a Mii to go into the Wii Fit. I enter the pertinent data, I get tested on balance, weight, BMI… icky stuff. Then it tells you your Wii Fit age… Now… when it tells me my age is over 60, I have a big problem. Not only does this machine think I’m very out of shape, but indicates that I have one foot in the grave with the other one on the edge. The best thing I saw was my Wii Fit age as 31. I really wanted to print that for posterity. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a way to print off my television, and can’t take a picture with a camera. Bummer.

I even created a Mii for TAFL as I thought we’d like to do this together and at least have a bit of competition. His Mii was put into the Wii Fit, he was told to step on the board… and then promptly got kicked out of Wii Fit for being to heavy… Hey, what’s the deal with that? Only skinny people already in shape can use it??? It’s discriminatory, I say!

Going back to the entering the Mii into the Wii. Once your finished with the testing, you can get into the games of torture… I don’t mind the balance (walking on a tightrope, maneuvering a bubble down a river, blah, blah, blah) or the aerobic stuff (step, hoola-hooping, or soccer)… The strength and yoga crap is not on my list… Well… ok… not yet.

Over at L&J’s I scored 31 seconds on the tightrope… That was so cool. I got 1st place. I’m not sure if my record has been beaten yet or not. The Step game has you doing it in rhythm they set. I’m not good at the basic one because I go faster than the rhythm, but pretty good at the advanced. The third option is actually awesome. You set your own pace and then turn the channel to watch TV and hear the beat on the controller.

My soccer experience is rather sad to say the least. In this game, you’re the goalie and have to headbutt the soccer balls to get points. What they don’t tell you is that your going to have shoes with cleats and mascot panda heads being hurled at you as well. I found out the hard way that I suck at headbutting the soccer balls, but I’m really good at knocking myself out with the shoes and panda heads. ::cheezy grin::

Now, the Wii Fit does tell you the amount of time your doing your stuff in a really cute digital piggy bank… Sadly, it took me about a week to realize that’s what it was doing… adding up my time playing the games. Ironically, I hadn’t really paid attention to the time. I’m too busy trying to beat my previous score. The harder I try, the further back on the list I got. Grrr… I did find out, after that initial week of squirrelliness, that the amount of time you “work-out” is directly correlated with the opening of the next game. What really was stinky was I’d be working on balance and I’d get something in Yoga or Strength to play with. Ich…

I’m sure I stated somewhere previously that I’m in the color guard for the all ages drum corps called Prairie Sound Drum and Bugle Corps. About two weeks ago I dragged TAFL to go with me (I detest driving) to one of the member’s homes to try on my guard uniform. After they plied me with a very good margarita, we started playing Rock Band. You’ve seen that game, I’m sure. It’s the thing you have to have the guitar and/or drum and/or microphone controllers to “play” in the band. Our friends forced me to play… I played the bass guitar line. Not so bad on the EASY setting… I started on the lead guitar line only to figure out that I really suck at that, too. Maybe with another margarita…

Ok, so, now I’ve played with my Mii on the Wii and played guitar with the likes of Rob and Jennifer Alright, they are not in disguise and not even professional musicians… But, hey… someday we’ll be on the road with our band… Umm… I think I have a better chance of winning the lottery.