WiiFit just around the corner
I’ve written about how I really like the Wii for a substitute exercise from time to time. Yesterday, Diet-Blog posted about the upcoming WiiFit, which promises to extend the exercise and fitness options to Wii owners.
The base games provided with the Wii is the WiiSports package, which includes tennis, boxing, baseball, golf, and bowling. Most are just fun, but boxing will kick your butt, assuming you do it right - actually ‘throw’ punches, bounce, and duck. It’s something I’ll do on a rainy day, or if I get home late and don’t want to go for a walk in the dark. Plus, it’s just different, which helps body and mind.
I wouldn’t want a video game to replace the exercise options for myself or my kids, but having a tool like this to substitute and shake things up from time to time is a big help. Having more options in WiiFit will help even more. Can’t wait for May to get here!
Tags: diet, exercise, fitness, kids, substitute exercise, WiiCh- Ch- Ch- Changes, and some plans
Ok, we’ll start with the health stuff first: I’ll be starting back walking tonight. Day 1/100
Woot!
I still have soreness in the ankle in the morning, and when I get tired in the evening, but I’ve been exercising it lightly using exercise bands I bought at Wal-mart for $20. I’ve also been playing with my new Wii. Baseball and golf are tough on the ankle due to the spinning motion you need to use to get it to work best. But boxing kicks ass! Very much like cardio-boxing. I’m trying to come up with a simple way to rig the exercise bands and the Wii remote/nunchuck so my arms and chest get a resistance workout as well.
As for changes…
If you know much about domain names, you’ve noticed that I have this blog, and several others, on sub-domains of hundreddayheadstart.com. The primary domain is where I post about the sponsored review industry, but when I first picked up the domain it was intended to be for this blog and subject exactly.
I used this domain earlier this year to just get some thoughts off my chest, not really sure if i would stick with that subject or not. The good news is that I did, and I also restarted this health blog. So, I’m making some changes.
I picked up a new domain for the sponsored review blog: Bloggerista.net. Over the weekend, I moved the posts from HDHS to the new domain, now hosted at godaddy.com and powered by Wordpress. I’m really excited about making the move to WP and excited about the capabilities. It takes a bit more technical knowledge to get set up than Blogger; Blogger is definitely the most intuitive, easy-to-use platform for blogging. But, WP does so much more.
So, that move is done, mostly. The HDHS domain has a redirect script for now, until the search engines catch up. In a couple weeks, I’ll be making another change: I’ll be shutting down the subdomains and moving this health blog back where it belongs: www.hundreddayheadstart.com. I’ll also be moving it over to Wordpress as well.
That’s all for now. I’ll report in tomorrow, let you know how it goes tonight with the ankle and all.
Tags: exercise, walk, Wii, wiisports