About two Christmases ago, I bought myself Wii Fit Plus with a balance board. It's sat gathering dust ever since, due to a combination of health, motivation, and trying to keep the living room floor clear of kids detritus.
Yesterday, the planets aligned, so to speak, and so we stuck some batteries in it, sync'd it up, and had a go. I have to say, even standing still on the board for the initial centre of gravity tests and weighing and measuring did get to my legs, so I didn't do quite as much activity as I'd intended, but I still had a go. The hipshake game where you have to, as my 10 year old puts is, add up with your bum, was good, and I almost matched my football mad 8 year olds football heading score, before I had to collapse again. My legs are aching this morning, but I'm looking forward to giving them another try later today if I can (see my main blog for details of my health issues for more insight).
The kids, younger two at least, were already on the board before breakfast this morning, so the bug has really caught them, which is promising. Hopefully we can do this as a family ... though my youngests' competitive streak may get a bit much for me *chuckles*
My tech mad 10 year old though, has also been investigating what else he can do with the board, and noticed the new(ish) Wii Fit U software, which has a kind of pedometer add on, so that you can record your activity away from the board too. Sounds good, but as it's currently out of our price range right now, I went onto Amazon instead and bought us all regular pedometers. It'll be interesting to see what our step counts are ... I'm going to lay odds the youngest will have the highest, as he never stops moving. The other two will be about even, and hopefully not too bad, whereas I'll be somewhere at the bottom.
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