Nov 17, 2008 Monday

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I got myself a Wii Fit balance board for my Wii system. I have really mixed feelings about this thing. It features software with lots of healthy exercises. But they are fun to do (tightrope walking, ski jumping, hula hoops).

My nieces and nephews convinced me that it is fun and I watched them play the exercise games on their system, and they like it when I play video games with them.

The hard part is the set up. You hafta enter your height, then "weigh-in" (it actually weighs you, but doesn't reveal the results), then you go through a series of balance exercises and it calculates your Body Mass Index and your age based on your fitness level.

I did okay on the latter (within 2 years of actual), but it had rude things to say about the former.

The nieces and nephews all came over Saturday to help me through it. Once that ugly task was resolved, we spent the day enjoying the games. We always have fun when they come over.

And this time we got some exercise too.