Kebablog

Whilst walking through brum today, noticed an A4 notice in the window of GameStation.

WII FIT in Stock!!!!!! (probably didn’t have all the exclamation marks). Decided as the belly is too big and the bike is currently of reach to purchase. Seems everyone else decided to as well. Queue was quite long, couple of Emo types very indecisive about Final Fantasy on the DS (I think) anyway after about 10 minutes I got one.

The fitness starts as soon as you purchase and walk out of the shop, the main reason is the bleeding balance board does weigh a bit. Eventually after work, tea and Traffic Cops (wtf were those Swedish women doing bouncing off cars/trucks?) I fired it up. Takes a while to get into it, the initial setup requires a little calibration.

So puts in height (which the Wii already knows – maybe my mii has the details) and DOB etc. It then tells me my weight. Fortunately as the balance board is on the carpet it loses a few kg. So I’m around 15 1/2 stone (97ish Kg), I’m obese and my Wii Fit age is…………….48

Bleedin hell. Anyway started up and had around 30 minutes on all the activities.

The Yoga was interesting as my balance is good (must be the real Yoga – I wont tell Jayne though). As usual the tree pose (the one you see on the cover of Wii Fit) was utter crap. Though I can imagine the other yoga bits will be as difficult as my real Yoga lessons.

Also hard are the arms and legs work outs. These are more like gym work, and having the belly and weak arms I notice them more.

Balance is quite a fun departure, the slalom skiing and Ski Jump are difficult to master. I was absolutely shite at the football (heading). The balance game also has a mini marble madness type game, though it’s just drop a number of mii balls through a hole (got to level 4).

I forget what the other games were, but they are simple things like step and jogging (not on the balance board though. The Wiimote goes in the pocket and jumps out!).

Overall, a good bit of fun. Not too sure if i’m a morning person or an evening one for the training. Hopefully I can keep it up. My ambition is to lose a 1 and a half stone in 3 months. We’ll see.

Yes, my body has finally started to fight against the fitness regime.  For the last week I’ve suffered from a cold.  Started with dizziness and fatigue on Mon to Fri.  Now the weekend is upon us the runny nose and congestion has started.  I can cope with the congestion and runny nose, so hopefully I’ll be back at work on Monday.  For me, loss of smell and snot are much easier to cope with than the dizzy head.

Hope it’s sorted soon as I’ve had to miss the gym for the last week.

Yes, it’s that time again when my body and me decide to take a different path for fitness. I’ve been enjoying yoga for a couple of months now, but decided I needed that big push to shift the flab.

So today I join a gym, nothing too fancy. A local council gym. Facilities are fine and the equipment works. Enjoyed the circuit around the gym tonight. However the body is fighting back. I’ve had the sniffles for the last day, maybe the cold will resurface after a 2 week break. We’ll see.

I’m going again Wednesday, so hopefully it’ll shift.