Unlocking new levels in Wii Fit

Been exploring the Wii Fit. Besides the yoga, strength training exercises, there are also fun games that you can play. And make you use up some calories in the name of fun.

There's jogging, step-aerobics for the more serious exercises. And then there are the fun recreation ones like skiing, football headers, even a hula hoop game and a balancing game where you move your body to manipulate a platform in order to move a ball on the platform to fall into a hole.

For every exercise/ game that you perform, you unlock new levels which either picks up the pace, extends the duration or adds new levels of complexity. It functions as a carrot for you to want to keep at the games so that more and more of those gray boxes turn into active exercises/ games that you can then play. Talk about the ultimate carrot on a stick. So, this is more like a psychological game that plays on your mind. SMARTTTTT......

All those twisting and turning has to be a boon to the casual exerciser to start moving that bum. Which is where the Wii Fit actually excels in! Making that first step towards regular exercise a little bit more fun and to incentivise the user to carry on. Hopefully, it will become a regular part of their day. And that... boils back down to the one essence I have been talking about all along... REGULAR EXERCISES...

Wii Fit: Building Blocks

Hmm... Wii Fit is fun, the eye-candy (cartoonish no doubt), the rhythm, the constant encouragement, the fun games.... all these add up to fun for the user, and possibly a carrot to casual exercisers who may not otherwise have the incentive to stick to a plan.

Let's face it, all of us start with great plans, but these fizzled out along the way as enthusiasm wanes and we fall back on our 'constant state of rest' mode when trying to stick to an exercise plan (mind you, I am not even talking about a 'regime' here).

So, this is where I see Wii Fit coming in, all of its positive attributes mentioned acts as an incentive, a 'carrot' approach if you will, to encourage the casual exerciser to get off that butt and move it, move it.

And for this particular group, even getting off their butts can be, uhh.. well, difficult. So, in the larger scheme of things, getting them grooving, or to even step onto the Wii Fit to take stock of their physical state, can be that proverbial first step. And might I reiterate, a very fun one as well.

Wii Fit

Hmm... let's see... been doing my little exercises in the mornings- almost every morning. And lo and behold, just spend a tidy little sum on the Wii Fit.

An intelligent piece of design, I must say. Keeps out the sensitive bits from prying (gawking and gaffauwing) eyes. Why do I say that? It doesn't even need to ask you for your weight, so that even if you cheat, you would be 5 kilos 'lighter' in front of your friends, but your Wii Fit will know your actual weight! All this by standing on the Wii Board.

So, it will take you through a battery of balancing tests, and base on the results, give you your Wii age, which in my case was....... ta da... I more that 17 my calendar age! Geez... that's a painful reality! Everyone around me erupted in laughter, myself included. All these from just balancing yourself on the Wii Board. Gosh.. as a piece of tech- it is surely impressive... let me try out its other features... and get back.