exercise

This morning I was having a workout on Wii Fit (here’s my initial review). My personal regimen right now is some strength training, some yoga and a lot of hard aerobic activity, followed by the “fun” stuff like the Ski Jump. That and the Ski Slalom might be the most addictive activities of the entire package… but Lisa swears that Bubble River will have you just as hooked.

Part of the aerobics that I’m doing right now is Jogging the long distance. It’s really clever how this works: you don’t use the Wii Balance Board at all. You just put the Wii Remote in your pocket (or if your pants lack pockets you can just hold the Remote in your hand) and then you start jogging in place. If you keep a brisk pace while swinging your arms in good wide circles you can work up a serious...

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So yesterday (which it barely is as of this writing) Nintendo released its much-anticipated Wii Fit. I had no idea what this was until Lisa was in Georgia a month and a half ago. She phoned home and asked if I could go to the local GameStop and pre-order a copy. Well you know, when you’re a husband you do whatever makes your wife happy (unless you’ve got an “Ahab and Jezebel” thing going on, but I digress…) so I went and plunked down the money and was told it would be waiting for me on May 21st.

And then I went home and got on the Internet and found out what Wii Fit was exactly.

And then I found out that I had just committed to purchasing a ninety-dollar bathroom scale…

For the next several weeks, I found myself studying Wii Fit, wondering what the heck were we ...

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