EA Sports Active 2 for Wii - Workout group

wildst4r

Hi!

I just created a workout group for EA Sports Active 2. If you wanna join, send me a message and I'll give you the details (name of the group & password).

zoombie_bear

I just wanted to say have fun working out, I loved this program/game, I did the entire 9wkchallenge and had amazing rsults, lost 40lbs with it

wildst4r

40 lbs??? WOW that's amazing! I just got the game last week. I'm on the 20 days challenge right now. I've never done something like this before so I'm going to start slow and work my way up to the 9 weeks challenge

bluemist248

I just wanted to say have fun working out, I loved this program/game, I did the entire 9wkchallenge and had amazing rsults, lost 40lbs with it

Wow! I was wondering whether to get this or not, now I'm going to! That's an amazing loss!

amymt10

How different are Active 1 and Active II?? I have the first one.

zoombie_bear

the one, is ok, I started with it, not knowing what the 2 was.
But since I've done both, I suggest starting directly with the wii active 2.

It has added features that the 1, does not have:
- HRM(heart rate monitor that also a calorie counter)
- has warm up and cool down routines, so less soar afterwards
- added exercices, and this one has ab exercises

enjoy

wildst4r

Anyone else interested in joining the group?

k66yla

I will join you. I got the Active 2 on Friday. I joined a weight management group last Tuesday and so far have spent 4x30min sessions in the gym and I've done 2 sessions at home with Active 2 and so far I've lost 2kg and 1% body fat. I'm amazed.

wildst4r

I'm just going to put this here - we can always use new members!

Name of the group: MFP-Pals
Password: wecandoit

Join us!

elinsofie

Joined your group

brandiuntz

I'll join up tonight or tomorrow! Been using Active 2 since January and love it!

wildst4r

awesome! welcome to the group

EmmaShorter

I have just joined up. I thought I could join more than one group but couldn't so the one I had joined previously that had 0 workouts 0 everything I had joined previously I decided to leave and try yours. Hopefully yours will be more motivational! I mean 0 workouts hardly inspires you does it?! So lets do this!!!

elinsofie

Welcome to the group!

elinsofie

Suggestion for a July Challenge:

I took a look at the group statistics today. We're 17 cals away from a 10 000 calorie burn as a group. That's about an average of 2000 cals per member in June.

What if we - as a group - try to reach 25 000 calories by the end of July?

wildst4r

sounds good

EmmaShorter

To be honest, I don't find the heart rate monitor that accurate. I wear my polar FT4 alongside it and according to that I have burned double the calories the game says I have. That is something to bear in mind but I am up for the challenge still!

wildst4r

I found a site where we can set up challenges. I will PM you individually with the URL to that site. Please sign up and reply here with your username so I can invite you to the challenge.

If anyone else is interested in this challenge, PM me and I'll give you more details!

wildst4r

One problem though....I just found out that on that website, you can't do a "how many calories burned" challenge. Only weight loss challenges. So how about we do a 8lbs (or more? or less? challenge for july?

I'm still trying to figure out how the site works LOL.

Or hey, maybe one of you knows of a site where you can set up calories burned challenges?

elinsofie

One problem though....I just found out that on that website, you can't do a "how many calories burned" challenge. Only weight loss challenges. So how about we do a 8lbs (or more? or less? challenge for july?

I'm still trying to figure out how the site works LOL.

Or hey, maybe one of you knows of a site where you can set up calories burned challenges?

We already have the statistics of calories burned on http://www.easportsactiveonline.com/group-members (and on the game I guess). Right now the total calorie burn of the whole group since it started is 10 250 cals. So we can just try to make a common effort to push than number up to 25000 (or some other number) by the end of July If everybody in the group burns an average of about 500 cals more doing EA this month than in June, we'll get there (if I've done the math right?).

If we make it we'll get to pat ourselves on the back and be proud of ourselves. The person who contributed the most, get to pat themselves on the back twice

When it comes to weight loss, I'll stick to my 0.5 kg (1 lb) a week, so I'm not in for a weight loss challenge.

EmmaShorter

The only problem I have with using the readings from EA sports is that they aren't accurate according to my HRM. That was why I thought you were looking for an alternative?!

elinsofie

I've been thinking about getting an HRM to get a more accurate calorie burn from both EA and other activities. How big is the difference between your HRM and the EA-HRM, e_briggs?

Since I haven't got an additional HRM, I have nothing to compare with. Before you start a workout the game makes an estimate of how many calories you are likely to burn. The number I get when I've finished the workout is usually close to the estimate. So either my EA-HRM is working fine or the estimate is also wrong. I don't know how EA calculates the estimate though, and I guess the EA-HRM is not exactly high quality, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's not 100% correct.

Has anyone else tried to compare the EA-HRM to other HRMs?

If there's another site that's better for logging the exercise, that's fine with me

wildst4r

I don't have a HRM yet so I have to trust the one that came with Active 2 but I've heard that it isn't very accurate :-(
I'm also having trouble logging in to the EA site - it keeps timing out. That's why I was looking for an alternative where we could set up a challenge.

wildst4r

I just went out and bought a HRM!

It was on sale and it was only 20 Euros but it has a chest strap and seems to be working alright. I'm about to head out for a nordic walking session. Can't wait to see how many calories I've actually burned instead of doing guess-work on MFP LOL.

wildst4r

got my HRM 4 hours ago and I already love it so much! Just got back from a 155 min nordic walking session and I burned 1792 calories! holy moly!

wildst4r

Just finished an EA 2 workout wearing both the EA HRM and the HRM i bought yesterday. Here are the results (I stopped my HRM every time the game was loading so at the end of the workout I had the same time on the game as well as on my HRM stop watch):

EA HRM
Time: 15 minutes
Cals: 111 calories

my HRM
Time: 15 minutes
Cals: 151 calories

wildst4r

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EmmaShorter

Feel bad! Have slacked on the EA Sports/exercise front the last week or so. However I played tonight and intend to do that everynight this week (week days at least) I will be off work next week to so I will make up for missed workouts!

bjshooter

I love EA, moving on to something else in two weeks when I finish though. This is my second time round, doing the 9 week programme on hard, with 2x 2.5kg weights. I lost 6lb and 9 inches the first time, and 6lb and 9 inches this time, with two weeks left.

My HRM reads 2x the amount of cals burned though also. It is fun.