My prayers have been answered; easy fitness that’s what I like. For Christmas we got the kids a Wii Fit/Sport. I really don’t like exercise without a purpose and have been trying to figure out how to get some  exercise, without having to run around in the rain or do to much work. I needed a solution. So I recovered our old elliptical trainer from a friend where I hoped it had been used for more than we had used it for; hanging clothes.

I set it up on the covered back deck, so that after having my morning cup of java which I am slowly managing to wean myself off, I could jump right on the trainer and do a 5-10 minutes workout a day. This worked great for the first 2 or 3 days and then I fell into my old routine. Within a few days I finally quit altogether.

Enter the Wii fit/sport, the Wii fit is a great device, it combines the fun of playing a game and doing some exercise, just the way I like it. I started off doing a little ski jumping which requires a degree of balance to pull it off and then had ago at snowball fighting and finally some boxing to get the old heart going again. It’s a surprisingly good workout and I can be sweating and breathing hard by the end of it.

The Wii fit it begins by working out your Wii fit age, this is done by putting in your date of birth, height, and a couple of other things in that help it out. Then it tells you what your Body Mass Index is and your weight. Which incidentally you can password protect to stop prying eyes from knowing what you weigh.  I was asked to do a bunch of activities like balance, agility and strength. In its nice way, it let me know my Wii Fit age which was right on the money this time (29 + 21 years).

This age moves up and down depending on your fitness and abilities, feel free if you have a Wii Fit, to post your age and progress in the comments of this post. After doing all this you are ready to setup an exercise routine, which can be done every day and combines Yoga and strength training and at the end you can have one of the fun trainings, like boxing or holla hoops added in.

So if you don’t want to exercise in the rain, but think that as part of your New Year’s resolution you should get a little fitter this might be the answer for you. I was going to do my own training video for everyone so that you could see how easy it is, but I thought that I would not subject you to this at this time. One other bonus is that you get to make your own character to represent you in the game which is kind of cool.