Wii Etc (Fit, Fit Plus, EA....) Team for March

jam0525

Hello everyone!

This forum is for those of us who use a Wii Fit, Wii Plus, or any of the other many wonderful Wii Fitness programs for all or part of our exercise program. At the beginning of every month we set our exercise goals for the month and then encourage each other to meet them. So if your Wii-ing it we hope you will join us!

JAM

vanillagirl18

Woo hoo!
Wii Fit
Biggest Loser
Gold Cardio Gym
My fitness coach
Just Dance

IndianGirl294

I think I'm in on this one.

I have Ea Active
Golds Gym Boxing
Wii Fit & Plus
Jillian's 2009

sonjavon

Cool! We have the Wii Fit and My Fitness Coach. I have to admit that I'm having a hard time with My Fitness Coach right now... A lot of the side to side and back and forwards seems to hurt my knee. Hopefully as I lose it will help my knee!

Ressy

I am thinking about getting the Wii and Wii Fit, is it worth the money and can you really lose weight by exercising with it?

Thanks!

ocnluv616

I only have jillian's 2010 workout but I'm in!

SugarHi

Wii Fit plus
Wii Sports - boxing is my kicker!!!! lol

ksnowras

I have Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports. Hopefully I'll do better this month than Feb. It's the only thing I have time for without missing out on the little time I get each night with my kids, so I'm determined to make it work!

TwentyTen

I will be spending at least 40 minutes a night 5 days a week on my Wii Fit Plus. February was just a warm up.
Finally I will venture into the advanced skateboarding!

exermom

I did the hulahoop on my WiiFit Plus today. Can you only get a maximum of 5 hoops? Or is there a way to get more than 5? I just now found out that I can change the amount of time in each segment. I think it was preset for 3 minutes, I upped it to the max of 10.

Michele

hollyroode

Wii Active- My goal for March is to do the 30 day challenge without skipping any days

eclairuk

Hi Everyone.

I am on board for March and I am determined to get my motivation back and meet my goal!!!!!
For March I will aim to do my 6 week challenge without missing any days, so that will be 4 days out of the 7. If I do anymore than that it will be a bonus!!!

Good luck with your goals in March.

darece

I'm in....
I have/do Wii fit, Biggest Loser. One or the other every day along with E Active (half way though the 30 day challange) at least an hour combined. Was thinking of getting Wii fit plus. Is it worth the 20.00?

tigermom79

I did the hulahoop on my WiiFit Plus today. Can you only get a maximum of 5 hoops? Or is there a way to get more than 5? I just now found out that I can change the amount of time in each segment. I think it was preset for 3 minutes, I upped it to the max of 10.

Michele

Yeah....I do the 10 mins. WOW.....that really works ya!!! I haven't figured anyway to get more hoops

firegirlred

Wii fit plus here.

I spent 40 minutes yesterday on the fit plus bubble thing where you balance to get to the goal. I finally beat it though! And my balance has improved substantially!

jawhwilson

I plan to loose around ten pounds this month. I will use wii fit plus, walk and active working out at least five days a week.

elysant

I don't have any goals yet... I will have to think about it. I have, however, realized that spending 60 mins/6 days per week on the WII is taking way too much time away from my son. So I will be shortening that to 40 min/6 day per week. ) I will let you know my other goals once I figure them out. No later than Sunday though :O)

TwentyTen

I don't have any goals yet... I will have to think about it. I have, however, realized that spending 60 mins/6 days per week on the WII is taking way too much time away from my son. So I will be shortening that to 40 min/6 day per week. ) I will let you know my other goals once I figure them out. No later than Sunday though :O)

Hey Tara, What I like to do is set my goals just a bit lower then what i think I might be capable of . Leave a little wiggle room., ya know? Maybe go for 30 minutes 5 times a week, then I bet you will exceed your goals. Baby steps work best for me. I find I am just setting myself up to fail when i get too ambitious with the goals. Maybe get your son to join in!

elysant

Jane -

That is a wonderful idea. I think that I will do just that! )

I am doing Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred DVD along with my WII workouts so that way I'm getting a large variety of exercises and such. :O) My son LOVE to try the stretching stuff at the end with me. It is really cute to see )

lwebsmfp

I'm doing the 30 Day Challenge on EA Active right now. So far I'm loving it.

sonjavon

I'm just beginning... I have the Wii Fit Plus...I'm going to log in 5 days a week for 40 minutes. I got my son started on this - so now it's a competition in my house. It ticks my healthy, athletic 12 year old son that his overweight mom can beat him at the hula hoop! LOL!

On a side note... One thing I LOVE about being able to use the Wii Fit and my HRM as an exercise tool is that I can exercise AND spend time with my son... last time I tried to get in shape I walked on the treadmill for an hour and a half each day... during that time no one was allowed to talk to me. I isolated myself in a room and became very grouchy if someone called, came to the door, etc. I'm not saying that I don't need that time too... but using the Wii reminds me of being a kid ---- when I was thin because I "played" not because I was "working out". As a matter of fact, I don't think I'm going to call it working out anymore... from now on, I'm going to "play". We'll see how long it takes to confuse people!

Good luck this month everyone!

Cathyvil

I'm working on my 2nd 30 day challenge now. Every third day in rotation, I'm adding in 30 minutes of free step on my wii fit plus with the risers, the next day the intense upper body workout on EASA, then yoga on the third, my rest day from the challenge. If I can meet my mini goal of losing at least 6 pounds by the end of my challenge, I'd like to get the yoga game they make for the wii. If anyone has used it, I'd love to hear their feedback on it :flowerforyou:

Cathy

jam0525

Vanillagirl, IndianGirl, Sonjavon, Ocnluv616, SugarHi, ksnowras, firegirlred, jawhwilson, lweb10. Cathyvil – Welcome!

Ressy, most of my exercise is the Wii Fit and I do think you can loose weight with it. Which Wii you will like depends on where you are starting from. It is lower impact and lower cardio than some other, but for me it is a good fit.

Jane, Michele, Hollyroode, eclairuk, darece, Elysant – Those are good goals. I hope you make them.

Michele, - I’ve never gotten more than 5. I think it is the max.

Darece- I just spent the $ for the upgrade and I do think it is worth it.

Jane – that’s good advice to set the goals down a little so that we can be successful. Not meeting goals can be very depressing and just the thing to knock us off the wagon and into a big bowl of ice cream.

I hope I got everyone. My apologies to anyone I missed.

My goal is to survive March. I will not have access to a Wii for part of the month, but when I do have access to it I want to do 40 minutes a day 4 days a week. 2 days a week I have Yoga, so that leaves me 1 rest day a week.

Have a great day everyone.

JAM

jnikitow

I just got EA Active last night. I am going to start today.

Does anyone use the balance board with their EA Active? I was wondering, don't you have to take your shoes off to use the balance board? Do you do the whole EA Active without shoes or do you take them off before the balance board stuff?

Thanks for any details.

Jaime

Cathyvil

Thank you for the welcome JAM :flowerforyou:


Jaime,

I use my board with EASA and I wear my sneakers. But I bought a protective cover for the board so that it doesn't get scuffed up. I believe it was $19.99 at best buy. I find that for some of the lunges, that if I just wear my socks I tend to slip, which for the alternating side lunges is not good :laugh: Barefooted is a bit better, but I feel like I have more support with my sneakers on. Most of the balance board activities aren't very long or intense, imo, so you might feel comfortable without a cover using your sneakers. I probably would just go for sneakers even if I didn't have the cover.

I hope you like EASA. I'm finding it to be worth every penny I spent. It's a lot of fun :happy: Let me know if you have any other questions you think I could help with.

Cathy

jnikitow

Thank you for the welcome JAM :flowerforyou:


Jaime,

I use my board with EASA and I wear my sneakers. But I bought a protective cover for the board so that it doesn't get scuffed up. I believe it was $19.99 at best buy. I find that for some of the lunges, that if I just wear my socks I tend to slip, which for the alternating side lunges is not good :laugh: Barefooted is a bit better, but I feel like I have more support with my sneakers on. Most of the balance board activities aren't very long or intense, imo, so you might feel comfortable without a cover using your sneakers. I probably would just go for sneakers even if I didn't have the cover.

I hope you like EASA. I'm finding it to be worth every penny I spent. It's a lot of fun :happy: Let me know if you have any other questions you think I could help with.

Cathy

Thanks Cathy!

I will let you know how it goes. I bought it yesterday with some birthday money I received.

jnikitow

Okay, did my first day of the 30 day challenge on the EA Sports Active. I loved it. My plan is to do that every morning before work and then come home from work to do the treadmill.

We will see how it goes.

SweetieBsMom

Hi Everyone!

We got a Wii for Christmas. I have 1 fitness game, Gold's Gym Cardio Workout. I did also buy Just Dance which I LOVE!!! Wearing my HRM, I burn about 700 calories / hour and it doesn't feel like a work out. I'd love to join your team for March!

For those of you with EA Active....do you like it? Do you have trouble with the leg strap falling off? I'm close to my first 10% weight goal and I'm going to reward myself with either Wii Fit Plus or EA active. I was reading the reviews on Amazon for EA active and a lot of complaints were regarding the leg strap.

TIA
Michelle

shellgib

I've been doing the EA active - 'More Exercises' 6 week challenge for about 3 weeks now and LOVE IT!!!! i have done the Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus and the original EA Active, but this is my favorite by far. It has awesome preset workouts in the challenge that make me sweat! and the step aerobics programs on it are like "real" step classes, not just on and off like on the wii fit. You actually have knee raises, leg kicks, etc included in the step routines. i burn like 200 calories doing 30 min. of the step. You can use it with or without the balance board and you can actually "weigh in" on this new version just like on the wii fits. Also, there is a warmup and cooldown with each programmed workout and they include abs which is not on the original.

I was actually thinking about getting the "risers" for the balance board to kick it up a notch, so if anyone has any opinions of the risers, let me know.

Keep up the good work everyone!!

PS: i don't have any trouble with the leg strap as long as it's on tight : )

thumper44

Hey everybody.
I just finished my EA 30 challenge last week. it was great.
I actually don't have the wii fit so I don't have the board (yet).

So all the exercises I was able to do without the board, I did them in my socks on the carpet with the nunchuk in the leg strap and my hands on the remote.

To get a longer exercise, you can create your custom workout. That can be alot of fun playing the sports.
To get a harder burn you can use a thicker resistance band or dumbbells with some exercises.

Unless you wear a HRM the calorie burns stated might be inaccurate. It's only calculating when your doing the exercise not the gaps in between.

thumper44

shellgib, The 2nd Ea game. Is it similiar to the 30 day challenge? different events? more sports?

sweetiebsmom - I'd like to hear about the Gold's gym game please..

The leg strap. I read about people on the internet or amazon complaining about the same thing.
I didn't have one problem with it myself.

I put the strap on under my shorts on bare skin I make sure it's at the TOP part of my thigh. approx where your pant pocket would be. Open the velcro strap, pull on velcro strap and tighten.

Hope that helps.