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Weight Watchers, Wii Fit and EA Sports Active for Wii

2009-05-24T15:03:00.001-07:00

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!

Which Discworld Character Are You?

2007-06-29T13:38:00.000-07:00

You scored as Gytha (Nanny) Ogg, You are Nanny Ogg! A talented witch, able to make yourself at home wherever you are, and insist that Greebo is just a big softie. You enjoy drinking, a lot, and singing about a hedgehog. You have a huge family, and get your daughters-in-law to do most of the housework. You are kind and gentle, and help put people at ease.

Gytha (Nanny) Ogg

94%

The Librarian

75%

Commander Samuel Vimes

69%

Carrot Ironfounderson

63%

Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax

63%

Lord Havelock Vetinari

56%

Death

50%

Cohen The Barbarian

44%

Rincewind

38%

Greebo

38%

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics)
created with QuizFarm.com

Benny Comes to Visit

2005-12-16T05:51:00.000-08:00

We had a visitor yesterday who came to visit - Benny the rooster. Yes, we had a rooster stroll into our backyard. Fearing the predicted foul weather, I fed the rooster some whole grain bread and some cereal in a trail that led to our screen house.
Benny is now safely ensconced in our screen house. We located the owner who will come and pick Benny, a miniature rooster, up tomorrow.

Interesting Links - Science Fun

2005-08-31T05:29:00.000-07:00

Peter Ash, of Lawford, Somerset, attached a generator to his hamster's exercise wheel and connected it to his phone charger.

I told this story to my son, John, yesterday and he assured me that using a hamster wheel to generate power was not new and he's right.

Google

Hamster-Powered Night Light

A hamster-powered car that looks like a ladybird.

Simon Greenwald from the MIT Media Lab demonstrates Installation, in which virtual forms are created and placed into real space via a viewing window and a stylus. See the demo and then read more about Installation.

First it was the radio, then the television, then the computer; next it will be the robot. We are moving closer and closer to household robots, thanks to most of the work being done in Japan.

Kenneth Parker, Buy One Share and more

2005-08-21T14:00:00.000-07:00

Incan Ruins by Kenneth Parker

Buy One Share of Stock in Your Favorite Company - I would choose Pixar amongst others.

3D Street Paintings

2005-08-20T18:45:00.000-07:00

I love Julian Beever's 3D Street Paintings!

GW Bush Got High + Accrues Vacation Record

2005-08-20T18:37:00.000-07:00

"...I attacked Iraq and no one knew why because I got high..."

Heartfelt congratulations to President Bush, who on Friday August 19th breaks Ronald Reagan's all-time record for most vacation days.

Fake Mud

2005-06-28T05:34:00.000-07:00

The quest for money often results in humor. Take for example SprayOnMud, a product to simulate mud splashes on your auto. Their explanation of the product is "To give your friends, family and neighbours the impression that you’ve just come back from a day’s shooting / fishing / off-roading / visiting friends who live on a farm / looking for a country retreat / anything but driving around town all day or visiting the retail park!" I'd love to hear from someone who has purchased this product! View it for yourself.

Putting a voice to forum posts

2005-03-06T06:52:00.000-08:00

at Something Awful is hilarious

Red vs Blue

2005-03-05T21:56:00.000-08:00

Download a .zip of the first 5 episodes of

I Work With Fools

2005-03-05T13:30:00.000-08:00

...well don't we all have at least one fool that we work with? Although there's no known cure for dealing with fools, it sure helps to tell others foolish stories.

iWorkWithFools - where you can read or anonymously share work related stories about the foolish coworkers and bosses we all deal with daily.

Code Archive

School Reports

2005-03-02T16:19:00.000-08:00

Some very creative school reports...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2005-03-02T14:39:00.000-08:00

[ click to view the trailer ]

More Humor

2005-03-01T13:22:00.000-08:00

[ click the images to view ]

Breast Exam Commercial

Library of Calvin and Hobbes

Reworked Romance Novel Covers by

Fish and Humor

2005-03-01T04:53:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry to report that the glofish died last Monday. Let's celebrate the life of our glofish by sharing some humor. Click on the images below to view the video's.

Looks like Sushi

2005-02-16T08:49:00.000-08:00

I finally feel refreshed enough from the disappointing results of our election to begin blogging again.

So much has happened since I last posted - Christmas in Ireland, the Super Bowl in Jacksonville - but the thing on my mind right now is my office glofish with the EIB (Eric Induced Bump).

For those of you unfamiliar with glofish, they are zebra fish scientifically mutated to help engineers discover contaminated water. At least, that's the story Yorktown Technologies is spreading. The glofish apparently glow under black light however I can't vouch for that as we've been unable to find a black light bulb that will fit in the hood of our aquarium. Fresh from X-Men II, my office roommate, Eric, and I decided to buy the glofish over a year ago to provide a loving home for these mutants.

So that's the remote history behind the glofish. Now here's the recent history. While I was away in Ireland for Christmas, Eric took the fish home since we're closed from Christmas to after New Year's. Somehow during the transport from the office to his home, one of the glofish developed a bump on his back.

It was a small bump at first but had grown to almost epic proportions over the ensuing weeks. The poor glofish had to wobble back and forth in order to navigate the fish tank. The many visitors to our office fish tank said their eulogies to the glofish knowing that it was a short matter of time before the glofish was found floating on the surface of the tank. Some visitors pleaded with me to flush it down the toilet to put it out of its misery. I maintained that it should spend its last moments in the comfort of its friends.

Then, last Friday, leakage from the bump occurred. Yuck. I assumed that Monday morning I would find the glofish dead, dead, dead with little "x's" where its eyes had been.

Monday morning I arrive to work to find that one or more of the other fish in the tank had nibbled on the bump reducing to half its size. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.

More pleas ensued by visitors for me to flush the poor fish down the toilet. Or put it in its own swimming area. I have elected to keep it with its companion fish who I hope must end up removing this bump from the poor glofish.

I will endeavor to take a photo of this fish because you really can only appreciate the yuckiness of it all with a photo.

Royal Orleans Pink Panther Collection

2004-11-13T07:28:00.000-08:00

I'm always seeking new items to complete my Royal Orleans Pink Panther Collection and any additional information about the Royal Orleans company. Please feel free to email pictures of your collection to me and I'll post them on my web site.

Ireland Links to Consider

2004-11-10T10:41:00.000-08:00

Day Trips

Tutu Man Unmasked

2004-11-10T08:43:00.000-08:00

[ Tutu Man aka Jon Unmasked ]

Politics

2004-11-10T08:26:00.000-08:00

I've taken a break from politics but here are three links that I couldn't resist passing along:

F**K the South

Cartogram of the 2004 Election

Banana Republican

How do you define normal?

2004-11-10T08:19:00.000-08:00

[ Who is this tutu-wearing superhero? Disguised by day as a mindless office drone, he comes out at night bedecked in a pink tutu and a decorative lap blanket which assist him aerodynamically in his superhero adventures. ]

Free iPods

2004-11-10T07:36:00.000-08:00

Ruben + Eric Working in the Bathroom

2004-11-07T11:58:00.000-08:00

[ Ruben ]

[ Eric + Ruben checking their work so far ]

John Agreeing to Pose

2004-11-07T10:54:00.000-08:00

[ John growing too tall ]

[ John with his squirrely wrath ]