Weight Watchers, Wii Fit and EA Sports Active for Wii

My family bought me EA Sports Active (at my request) for Mother's Day.

I have been exercising almost every day for the past two and a half months using the Wii Fit and felt that I had outgrown the Wii Fit and become a little bored with its activities. For the past month, I've been exercising almost an hour every morning for 5 to 6 days a week. I counted it as 5 Weight Watchers points because I usually began sweating between 10 and 15 minutes after exercising.

Here are some notes on my first morning with EA Sports Active:

• I planned on beginning EA Sports Active this morning when I would have time to learn my way through using the Leg Strap and the Resistance Band. This morning I put together the Resistance Band, figured out the best place on my thigh to secure the Leg Strap, and began my first morning exercising with EA Sports Active.
  
• It takes some getting used to holding both the Resistance Band straps, the Wii remote and the Nunchuk all at the same time. I also had the Nunchuk facing to the left to begin with and it needs to face to the right in order for your movements to be tracked correctly.
  
• I was worried about running because I have Plantar fasciitis and running irritates it but I found that I could do a brisk, high-stepping walk and still receive receive credit by the game for performing the moves properly.
  
• The boxing part was a breeze because of my months of boxing with the Wii Fit.
  
• After 2 to 3 minutes, I was SWEATING which was great. Even though my workout lasted about 25 minutes, I earned 6 Weight Watchers activity points because it was a high intensity workout!
  
• I miss the Yoga cool-down from the Wii Fit but I did a bit of browsing in the game after my workout and found that there are some Yoga workouts in addition to the 30 day challenge.
  
• The 30-day challenge has two built-in rest days which will take some getting used to as I'm a creature of habit (a bit obsessive) and find that if I don't exercise almost every day, I tend to let the rest days accumulate.
  
• I wondered if it would weigh me as the Wii Fit does but it only asked for my weight and uses that to calculate calories burned. I will continue to use Wii Fit to weigh myself weekly even though it will ask me where I've been all week :)
  

I had high hopes that EA Sports Active would ramp up the level of my exercise and I wasn't disappointed on my first day. My thighs are upper arms are still a little sore!