wii challenge

I know long time since my last post but I have been so busy and the latest news with the wii is I have joined a wii-challenge group.  The group plays one of the activities and reports their scores to the person running it and then the winner picks the challenge for the following week.  This is week 2 and the challenge is to score high in the rhythm boxing and I stink at that.  Aw heck it is fun.

I also have opened up yet another route on the cycling, its crazy, I now have 5 different courses, so I cycled today for 30 minutes and rode almost 8 miles, not too shabby.   This I did after I BEAT MY DAUGHTERS HIGH SCORE on the advanced step!  629 and that my friends and pretty dang good.

I am on vacation this week so I am hoping to have a little more time for wii-ing and possibly breaking into a new area on it.  I heard that you can purchase a stool or a raiser for the balance board, I will need to look into that this week. 

I will post again very soon but for now  I will run.

To our health,

Deborah

Wii – wellness and more

Good afternoon!   I was able to have someone fix my lamp that I broke playing wii-tennis last week.  I have tried to practice a gentler approach to tennis while I am inside and they do give you warnings to clear the area.  So that being taken care of and I have practiced my advanced step regularly, still can’t score higher than my daughter but I am exercising and that is the important thing.  I love the cycling for exercise too and I do that one fairly regularly as well. 

When I mention wellness, I truly do mean overall wellness, mental, physical, financial, environmental and more.  I will change the subject slightly and talk about the effects of wii fit and mental health.  I do believe that any physical activity helps maintain a better mental state and the best part is that when you are active and you can concentrate on the activity that you are doing your mind relaxes from your stresses of the day.  I know that has been beneficial to me as well as the physical.   So as nutty as some may think that I am, I will have to agree to some extent but I do not stress over the daily grind anymore as I once did.

I hope you all  take your vitamins, keep active, any activity will do and take more time for you.   I know there is a saying about caring for yourself and I forget what the saying is but the general gist of is was to take care of yourself so you will be well enough to care for others.  I think I have that gene for nurturing and so I take my vitamins daily and I am well. 

I need to run and get in a little wii time before I pick the dog up from daycare, be in touch soon.

To our health,

Deborah

wii-kend

Good Sunday evening, busy weekend, lots of activities and accomplishments.

A friend of mine came over so that I could show her how to wii and she is pretty active so she caught on to everything quite well and she did try everything that we had time for and it was a lot of fun.  The one thing she didn’t want to do in front of others was the counting game, which is where you move your hips to add numbers to equal 10.  You move either side to side or front to back and she thought that would be best played after a glass or two of wine… great idea, a wii-wine-fest – watch for details.

Like I said it was a fairly productive weekend and I did accomplish a lot of little things.  Usually I like to reward myself after all that, so I decided to end the weekend with a few games of wii tennis.  I really get into these games, if I have to point that out, so I was kicking some wii butt and playing a pretty rigorous game.  I use the whole room as I would use  the whole court, however I guess I was getting a tad bit too enthusiastic and I hit the lamp and it toppled and hit the statue of an ice sculpture on the way down, so not only did the lamp actually break but the ice sculpture broke in half, it can be glued, but the lamp.. I will ask at home depot tomorrow what can be done. 

The next question is always did you make the shot and the answer is no, I did continue the game and I lost that too.  Oh the woes of wii.

I will start talking about other thoughts on  wellness next time – since this is about overall wellness afterall.

To our health,

Deborah

wow wii

It has been a long time since I have been posted anything and I really have so much to add that I might need to make this into 2  posts.

First off let me tell you about a friend of mine, lets call her Cindy, I believe she actually has wii-phobia and by that I mean she simple does not want to even try wii-ing with me, she will watch but then refuses to attempt even the easist of activities like, like the ski slalom.  Maybe one day. 

The next thing I have to tell you is very exciting,  I opened up yet another level on the cycling, the EXPERT, so now there are 4 cycling trips I can take whenever I choose, I love that one.  Okay so my mom, remember now she is 81, she not only does the basic step but she is also great at the slolam and the hip counting, she is having trouble with the hula hoops, it is very difficult after all and you really need to swirl those hips.  I love that mom is doing this and to think I was going to get a boring, expensive treadmill.

This is the only activity, one of the only activities that 3 generations in the same household can all enjoy equally! 

To our health,

Deborah

wii chatter

The greatest part of today was after my 30 minutes of advanced step, I tried the cycling again because that is so much fun and I didn’t realize there were more levels to unlock on that one but “viola”  I unlocked the “Island View Course” and it is by far the favorite one so far. Since I am the only one who has done that course I am in first place!

Another game; if you move your hips from left to right and front and back, you will hit mushrooms with numbers on them and those number must add up to 10 (15 in advanced) the tricky part is that if you hit incorrectly and it adds it in twice then you need to hit it again to  subtract the number.  Okay this may sound easy however have you ever tried to add to 10 and move your hips in various directions at the same time?  I didn’t think so, who would do that and for what reason.  Well we now have a reason and that is to earn points.  My mom does it for goodness sake, and she consistently gets 14 -15 out of 20 in the time alloted. 

Went for my physical and told the Dr. about wii fit (yes we chat about odd things) and I told him how much better my back is, all he had to say was “then keep doing it”  .    Brilliant, of course I will.  My back has hurt for 2 years from an almost fall and I have tried everything , from cold, heat, chiropractor, rest, yoga, massage, you name it, but nothing has helped like the exercise I am getting now.   One more reason I would recommend wii fit.

To Our Health,

Deborah

wii – did it again

New discoveries with wii, so I didn’t know you could make little mii characters that resemble yourself!  Adorable!  So after I got those all set up I realized I had lost all the high scores and advanced stages that I had previously earned, dang it.  So I have been very busy earning back those high scores and unlocking the advanced stages that I had already earned the first time around with the guest character. 

Also you can select a number of calories that you want to burn and wii will tell you how many calories you burn for each activity and when you reach the number chosen , wii will let you know.

Great workouts and it is so much fun that you don’t realize how much exercise you are getting – I highly recommend wii fit plus for everyone.

My mother is doing aerobics!  She is 81 and she has exercised more these last 2 weeks than she probably has in 2 years. I do make her take vitamins and a few other supplements and I know that is helping her have the ability to wii.  She has more energy and continues to workout every day, for at least 30 minutes.

So many of us decide on resolutions for a New Year and then afer a few weeks, maybe longer for some,  we simply stop.  I am hoping that and truly believe that this family will not stop with our resolution ; to wii more fit! 

To our health,

Deborah

wii fit – the healthy competition

Did I mention how competitive my daughter has become?  This is a girl who was a dancer as her extra curricula, certainly not a competitive athlete, let me tell you - things have changed.  I too am a little upset now because my daughter, Katie,  is now in first place in the advanced step aerobics!!!!  Only by 7 points  but hey 7 points is 7 points, now I understand the bumper sticker/ T-shirt   ”second place is the first loser”

On the other hand I have done a great job in the “island cycling”  advanced level, there are 22 flags you need to find and return to the finish line, this is all timed,  I completed it in 19 minutes!  That is the time to beat now.

Obstacle course, (seriously,laughing out loud), wii balance board knows when you really jump and sends you back to the start.

316 spins on the hula-hoop- in limited time – no no not me, Katie, I can only hope my hips will move like that!

My mom was too tired from watching us and was unable to participate today. 

 I only wish the dog could participate.

To our health,

Deborah

Wii withdrawl

Well that is sad, I had to return to work today after having ten days off and I actually thought about the inability to wii while at work.  I hope I am not sounding crazy.   I can see it now a new bumper sticker for 2010 will say “I’d rather be wii-ing” .  Is that even proper use of the term, ah heck it wouldn’t even matter because I know others would know what it means.  

So updates on our homefront competitions; I have unlocked yet another advanced stage, and this one is for the Island cycling and one more, the ski slolam.  I am not the best athlete but it really doesn’t matter,  I look forward to my workout games everyday.  It really is a way to gather people together to do an activity.  I had my sister come over and play a few games with us, she on the other hand is no where near as comptetive as the rest of us in the house are and when she got tired of the cycling, she jsut said “okay I have had enough” and she stepped off of the balance board.  I immediatly said “no” you need to finish the course.  She only laughed at me and said “no I dont’”.  of course she is right you dont need to complete it but that is half the fun for me, so I completed it for her!

Ahhhh, so my relaxation from work will be wii games and tea! 

To our health,

Deborah

and so the wii competition continues

Did you know that if you conquer an activity in the wii fitness plus that it will unlock another level?  I have unlock the bullseye to the next level, and it is a real challenge, I find myself competiting against myself, and I am winning of course.  The best thing is that I will get rid of any flab on my arms, which is a beautiful thing. 

The advanced aerobics is difficult but too much fun.  The yoga is great!

Do you have a wii?  Better than a treadmill and a lot cheaper. 

Since Christmas, I have lost 5 pounds!  In addition to not eating all the cookies and goodies, I have been wii-ing everyday and beleive it or not even my back is feeling a little better. 

In addition to the wii, I have decided to go back on point counting.  I like to feel good and this is how I am doing it and I will be more faithful with my vitamins. 

To your health

Deborah

Happy New Year

The first day of 2010 and how did wii spend it?