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I just bought one for Christmas. I don’t really have a success story, persay, at this point. In fact, I opened it up the day after Christmas, played on it for a bit. But, had family in and a lot of stuff going on so was unable to hop back on until lastnight. The sucker said I gained 3 lbs! I believe it though, i’ve been eating enough turkey and ham to last me a lifetime.

Anyhow, now to the stuff you really want to hear. The Wii Fit is easy to setup, but it takes a while. You should leave yourself at least 30 minutes or so before you ever get the opportunity to play the games. You will want to setup your Mii (which you use for all other games too) and then you will need to do some body tests and things on the Wii Fit board.

They keep it pretty entertaining along the way though. It was interesting to see that I was barely into the normal category for my BMI. I figured this would be the case. I am not necessarily overweight, i’m just out of shape. During the balance test I saw that I really have no balance. I also got the opportunity to setup a goal for myself. Mine is more of just keeping track of whats going on with my body, since my goal is not necessarily to lose weight, I plugged in 5 lbs (which now I have to lose 8!).

Once you get through all the initial setup, its fairly quick to hop on and start getting in a workout. I would imagine that everyone has this problem because different areas of different peoples bodies are stronger than others. I actually have fairly strong legs and abs, but a weak back, chest, and arms.

They have the exercises split up into a handful of categories. You can do yoga, aerobics, or strength are the primary “fitness” elements in my opinion. Others are like balance games and in my opinion are not quite as good of a workout. As mentioned above, I guess it would be natural for some people to find a few of hte exercises very easy, others extremely hard. Since I’m a pretty big guy, donig the pushups was almost impossible for me. First off, I’ve never been good at them anyhow, but having to keep my hands on a small board (much further in than what feels natural) it just made it htat much harder. I intend on working up on that. The ab workouts such as the jacknife were really good.

I was also extremely shocked at how well the aerobics workouts were working for me. The running in place could be entertaining, especially since you can do 2 player and race against someone else. Needless to say, I got beat by my pregnant wife. =/

Overall, I would recommend the Wii Fit to anyone who has a Wii. It is good at keeping track of where you are at, and is going to be fairly entertaining. Still, you’ll have to find time to use it just as you would for any other type of exercise equipment in your house. It is unique though, and makes it a bit more interesting.

In case you haven’t heard already, Wii Fit has been criticized among some very sensitive people. Apparently since the Wii Fit uses a BMI formula to determine whether you are overweight or not, that is somehow making parents be in an uproar. Little do these parents know that the Wii Fit is actually intended to help people be “fit”. I guess that is a shock to them.

Sure, we don’t want people telling our kids that they are fat, but reality is reality. Anyone who steps onto the little pad that comes with the game should be well aware of what possibilities they may encounter. I tested my BMI just a few minutes ago. I am barely into the overweight category. I’m not so sure I agree with that totally since I have people call me skinny at times (I am tall). However, there is no doubt that I have a small gut that I could get rid of.

The Wii Fit is a great health tool for our children. Even if it isn’t 100% accurate, it will track progress and will be of some assistance for kids or adults to get to their target weight. I am surprised that parents wouldn’t want to instill in their kids that they should be health conscious. We don’t have to go overboard, but if your child isn’t doing anything except sitting on the couch playing video games, maybe the Wii Fit is a good option for them.

I have had a few people come on and bash me for my comments about Kimbo Slice a couple of months ago (see below post). While Kimbo Slice is pretty much an internet superstar, he proved Saturday that he is nothing more than that. In fact, he lost to someone who couldn’t cut it in the UFC, Seth Petruzelli. In fact, to put this into perspective, you have to look at who Seth is.

This isn’t to put Seth down, as much as it to put Kimbo Slice back into reality with his fighting skills. Seth didn’t even win the Ultimate Fighter show. The Ultimate Fighter is a great platform for up and coming fighters. It has had people like Forest Griffin and Keith Jardine in it. However, I think both will tell you that they are leaps and bounds better now than they were on the show. With that said, Seth never made it to the finals of the show.

To top it off, Seth likely hasn’t been training for this fight. I’m sure he is still doing MMA somewhere. But, he was so hungry to be in the spotlight, he took this fight an hour before the match. I respect him for that.

Seth Petruzelli won the fight in a matter of seconds. In fact, I flipped from the channel at one point, came back, and the fight was already over. I was a little bit upset about that, but found it more enjoyable seeing Kimbo Slice defeated like he was. Perhaps Kimbo Slice can now come back to reality with us. He is an average fighter at best who no where near deserves the internet superstardom that he has received. Can we get our focus back on the real fighters of today, the UFC title holders now?

I was just surfing the net the other day looking around for some things for my car. I came across an awesome website that had some very unique items on it. I have not tried these out so I can not vouch for their effectiveness, but they do seem quite interesting and affordable.

First, I came across a solar car battery charger. How awesome is that? Going green seems to be the thing these days. Which by the way, I have to vouch for Boone Pickens awesome energy plan. Anyhow, this thing seems like a very cool concept and is actually quite affordable.

Another item I thought was very unique was the CTEK 3600 battery charger. This thing looks tiny but seems to do a good job. In fact, the place stands behind the product with a 5 year warranty on it. This little guy is great for attaching to a battery without ever having to disconnect it.

For the last product I found, I was looking over some of their cleaning products. DoDo Juice Wax seemed to stick out to me. If nothing else than for their name, you should definitely have some of this sitting on your shelf at home. However, just like their other products, UltimateFinish seems to stand behind this product as well. You can get this wax to match whatever color your vehicle is for a very high quality finish. It is supposed to be a professional grade product.

There are some things in life that you should probably leave up to professionals. Before learning on this topic I imagined this was probably one of them. However, I came into work the other day and this guy that sits a few cubicles down from me is really into Harley Davidson stuff. You will find different odd and end type things that have the Harley Davidson logo on it. He recently decided that his little microwave needed to fit the theme of his cubicle so he actually contemplated shrink wrapping it with a printed logo of the 50th anniversary Harley Davidson logo. Granted, it is a little bit cheezy, but I dug around on the web for a “how to” for heat shrink.

Based on how it sounds, it doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult. Depending on what you intend on doing with it, there are places that sell types of shrink wrapping materials such as heat shrink sleeves and heat shrink tube. I thought the process was quite interesting. He hasn’t actually decided to go through with the idea, but if he does I’ll post some pictures.