You’ve read the blogs by the guys and girls who are losing weight with the Wii. Good on ‘em. Unfortunately, its all about Wii Sports. I love using the Wii as a workout tool, but I need more variety than just Wii Sports to get me on my Wii regularly. Other games are a ton of fun (as I found out yesterday) and its prompted me to come up with my first week long project, “Wii Workout Week, Worthless or Worthy?”
The project will review 7 games, 1 game a day, and will show you which titles are worthy of using as a workout, and which ones are worthless.
Day 1: Get Soccer Slim with Mario Strikers
Day 2: Mediocre Madden 2007
Day 3: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Day 4: Rayman Raving Rabbids
Day 5: Wario Ware Smooth Moves
Day 6: Wii Play
Day 7: Red Steel
This project won’t just be me sitting on the couch playing games, enjoying myself while I convince my girlfriend that I’m actually working. I’ll be pushing some workout limits, being creative, and coming up with as many ways as I can to use these Wii games to break a sweat.
And before you ask, no, I won’t be tracking my weight (this web site isn’t just for people losing weight), however if anyone wants to use these tips to create their own weight loss record, share their success, or just to let people know how they’re going, please join my traineo.com group, “Wii Workout Week“. Or if you’re not a member of traineo, simply let us know via comments at the bottom of this page.
If you have any requests on which games you’d like to see reviewed, please ask! I will be running other Wii Workout Weeks in the future.
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Good review! Once I get a few of these games, I plan to encourage the kids at our Game Center to use the Wii as a way to Work Out.
In the same way that Wii can get you movin…HopeLab is looking for a way to get kids more physically active. We’re sponsoring Ruckus Nation, an online idea competition that challenges participants to imagine innovative products that will increase physical activity among kids ages 11 to 14.
To date, hundreds of people from around the world have registered to compete in Ruckus Nation, with teams representing 63 countries and all 50 U.S. states. Now, we’re inviting you and others to serve as judges and help select winners. Ruckus Nation winners may see their ideas come to life: The best product ideas will be prototyped, tested, and broadly distributed to young people. In addition, HopeLab will award more than $300,000 in cash and prizes for winning ideas.
We’re looking for people to spot the winning ideas by participating as judges. Judging is an online process that takes place in early December 2007.
To register as a judge, please visit http://www.ruckusnation.com and click on “Register Now” and follow the instructions to sign up as a judge. For more information on the Ruckus Nation judging process, please visit http://www.ruckusnation.com/judging.html.
Please note: You can not participate as a Ruckus Nation judge if you or an immediate family member has entered Ruckus Nation as a contestant.
Ruckus Nation is sponsored by HopeLab (www.hopelab.org) and cosponsored by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (www.rwjf.org).
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