So I’ve been using the monitor for a couple weeks now. I found that the reason I was gaining weight was due to skipping too many days exercising. I am now exercising 6 days a week. Though I’ve continued to gain weight, now it is for a different reason: Muscle! That has to be the reason as I have lost a half inch off my waist. I don’t have that flat six pack stomach yet but I am on my way.
So now I am a 6 foot tall 175lb woman, I feel like such a giant sometimes. I have a new goal now; I want to be able to lift my own body weight. I currently have a Wii fit, but the problem with the strength training in that program is that it all uses your own body weight as the resistance. So I have absolutely no problems with any of the leg strengthening exercises but I can’t really do any of the upper body strengthening exercises. So after reading many reviews and a few great tips from a marathon running friend I went and bought EA’s Wii Active. This game comes with a giant rubber band that you use to do various strength training exercises. I was able to create a workout that lasts about a half hour and targets all the areas that I would like to be stronger. I plan on doing this arm workout every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday on top of my 6 day a week DDR playing. I’m hoping that by increasing my upper body strength not only will I be stronger but I should also increase my base metabolic rate, burn that last bit of fat off my body, and finally have the six pack waist line.
I’ll let you know how it goes. As for the game I think EA Active is pretty nice. My only complaint is that I wish I could access the journal without the game in the system, as I only use the game to train 3 days a week, on those other days I have to insert the game just to put in time I spent playing DDR and what I ate the previous day. Though what would be really cool is if the game recorded me playing DDR and updated that info by itself, but that will probably never happen as DDR and EA Active are produced and distributed by two completely different companies. Maybe Nintendo could just create some kind of journal in the system that records any time spent playing any work out game?
Next week I promise to show you how to piece together multiple scans, or how to use all the previous repeating patterns tutorials to make a really neat finished piece of artwork (I’m not sure which will happen next week, as it depends on how much free time I have.)