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Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

l31RD — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:38:48 MDT

my daily shit:
school= 8hrs
biking=2-3hrs
wii=at least 2 hrs
more biking=1-2 hrs

we can all smuggle in wii time to stay fit

l31RD

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

RiceBandit — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:21:45 MDT

@Krist: In addition to the other comments regarding this, a fitness game will not only get the usual target player to get off of his ass, but also give them an idea of what it feels like to exercise on a (hopefully) daily basis. If the results are good, and the feeling of short-to-long-term use is good, maybe they'll start thinking in terms of exercising as part of their regular activities.

RiceBandit

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

Beastiephile — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:24:37 MDT

Sweating to the Oldies is classic, man. I'd pay good money for that as a Wii title.

Beastiephile

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

cyhborg — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:24:20 MDT

"fro kids"? you kids with 'fros?

cyhborg

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

x999x — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:10:12 MDT

Ninty needs to hop on to this. Aging brains aren't the only means for tapping into a new market. Now that there's a userbase, and parents are already familiar with playing Wii with their kids, a game which promotes excersize at a pace consistent with a new mom's busy schedule is one way to keep the Wii printing money.

x999x

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

Netizen — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:04:43 MDT

"Look out sir, his ass is gonna BLOW!"

Good related image there, Flynn :)

Netizen

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

topaz420 — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:42:00 MDT

@krist:

As someone who DOES keep regiments more than 3 months, I am glad this is being made.

topaz420

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

krist — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:07:14 MDT

While I agree any exercise is better than none, there is no point to these exercises unless you are willing to keep the regiment for more than a couple of months. Which also happen to be the life cycles of most games- after you beat the game once or twice, it's done.

My point is that most people are far too lazy to keep any form of diet/exercise plan for more than three months, and most, if not all fitness/diet related products bank on this to make their profit.

So, take away the health factor, and you have a game which point is simply to make you move your ass. And not surprisingly, most of these games tend to lack creativity, or simply keep churning out numerous copies of the same game, i.e, DDR. If you played one DDR game you basically played them all.

Now are developers lazy or what?

(Of course, Wii is supposed to be for the general masses rather than gamers, but still, this genre of games existed before! I'm simply waiting for the SIXAXIS version of this game in couple of months)

krist

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

GrimPil — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:05:47 MDT

Huh. I would've expected someone to post a link to this shirt already.

GrimPil

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

ranzchic — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:15:23 MDT

You know they are working on it(or a third party). It's just a matter of time before Wii Workouts are out, crushing the 360/PS3 singlehandedly overnight and sealing the Wii win.

ranzchic

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

omgjuicyjuice — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:07:34 MDT

@krist: Most of these new forms of exercise that are game related are good. In the long term, it may not be a good form of weight loss for some people. However, this is an excellent way to encourage people who are not typically likely to attend a gym to get up and get active. Any form of exercise is better than none at all.

omgjuicyjuice

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

krist — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:42:08 MDT

I don't see much point in these 'games'. Besides, the best they can go for is matching the sales of DDR games.

And if you ask me, I would rather go to the gym than monkeying around with a Wiimote. More effective that way, unless they sell these games with weights.

krist

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

BigChiefSmokem — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:07:15 MDT

i think its a good idea because even though it might not seem like much of a workout to us healthy folk, it will be a godsend to the typically sedentary people that this is being targeted to

BigChiefSmokem

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

Sharpless — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:24:54 MDT

Dude, that is one badass fucking name.

Either that, or it's stupid. I'm not sure.

Sharpless

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

PBnZelly — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:55:49 MDT

Those aren't even shorts, they're... they're just plain wrong! *shudders*

PBnZelly

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

topaz420 — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:40:11 MDT

I use 20 lb. wrist weights every time I play Wii. I have lost 15 lbs in one month!

Can't wait for the Miyamoto game, sounds great

topaz420

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

xxeyes — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:51:31 MDT

I expect Wii Health Pack to be North America's "Brain Age." But where is it? It has dropped off the recent lists of games coming out this year. Maybe Nintendo is waiting for Wii mania to die down a little before bring it out because Wii Health Pack will sell systems -- millions of them.

xxeyes

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

Maxamegalon2000 — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:37:16 MDT

Something like Wii Health Pack, perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Health_Pack

Maxamegalon2000

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

DONNYchiban — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:17:43 MDT

Wii Weight Lifting? How exactly would that work? lol

DONNYchiban

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

MoeB — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:16:23 MDT

richard simmons loves the wii remote

MoeB

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

Cravethought — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:14:59 MDT

This is just... stupid? Sure, you might be able to burn a few calories with the Wii, but is it really worth it? Like think of the battery life, man!

Cravethought

Personal Trainer Offers Wii Workout

REUYL — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:14:05 MDT

Pedophile not included?

REUYL