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MaxwellGT2000 on 17 April 2008

You know not until recently I put off Wii Fit as a game not for me, but then lately I've been thinking, I've been pretty busy, I love working out but I haven't had the chance to leave my house to hit up a gym or anything like I used to, and yes I've put on about 5 pounds (I know not a lot for most people especially considering in less then 1 year I lost 90 pounds but hey I love working out) and I've been thinking Wii Fit might be the motivation I need to workout in my own home, and might be something my parents might not mind playing either.



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student on 17 April 2008

Wow, there's a lot of activities in this set. I might just have t ocheck it out.

I'm really curious to see how it does. On the one hand, there's a lot of hype around it. On the other, I could see consumers skipping over it.



SaviorX on 17 April 2008
Mummelmann said:
TheBigFatJ said:
FreeTalkLive said:
BMI is not a good measure for people who are athletic but it works well for average people.

The BMI is accurate for athletic people as well. It is only inaccurate for extremely well muscled people, such as sports stars that use steroids. For 99% of all cases, it's a good unit of measure.


 I disagree, I have a bodyfat percentage of around 20 and my BMI is 32. BMI is bullshit, it takes into consideration nothing like water/liquid balance, musclemass or heavyset ligament and muscle conjoinments (they can actually add quite a few pounds unlike a heavy bone structure which would add only 5-10% skeleton weight, truly trivial). One of my best friends' brother is a proffessional ski jumper and he has a normal BMI of 19 despite having less than 6% bodyfat. I'm currently schooling myself in fitness and nutriton to become a PT and one of the first and most repeated lessons we have is to never make use of BMI, it takes into account no factors of bodily composition, and is as such a very unreliable measure for a broad part of the populace.


The Wii Fit is pretty basic. It isn't supposed to be substituted for real weight loss or take into account those specific measurements you mentioned in your post.

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MaxwellGT2000 on 17 April 2008
SaviorX said:
Mummelmann said:
TheBigFatJ said:
FreeTalkLive said:
BMI is not a good measure for people who are athletic but it works well for average people.

The BMI is accurate for athletic people as well. It is only inaccurate for extremely well muscled people, such as sports stars that use steroids. For 99% of all cases, it's a good unit of measure.


 I disagree, I have a bodyfat percentage of around 20 and my BMI is 32. BMI is bullshit, it takes into consideration nothing like water/liquid balance, musclemass or heavyset ligament and muscle conjoinments (they can actually add quite a few pounds unlike a heavy bone structure which would add only 5-10% skeleton weight, truly trivial). One of my best friends' brother is a proffessional ski jumper and he has a normal BMI of 19 despite having less than 6% bodyfat. I'm currently schooling myself in fitness and nutriton to become a PT and one of the first and most repeated lessons we have is to never make use of BMI, it takes into account no factors of bodily composition, and is as such a very unreliable measure for a broad part of the populace.


 

The Wii Fit is pretty basic. It isn't supposed to be substituted for real weight loss or take into account those specific measurements you mentioned in your post.

 My thoughts exactly, it's a bit of a personal motivator, you have BMI to motivate you to go for a personal goal, to reach the next level, it's still a game in that aspect =P I mean I would play it to help me keep in shape as if I'm home I'm not likely to exercise, but if you put it into game form I would.



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johnsobas on 17 April 2008
Mummelmann said:
TheBigFatJ said:
FreeTalkLive said:
BMI is not a good measure for people who are athletic but it works well for average people.

The BMI is accurate for athletic people as well. It is only inaccurate for extremely well muscled people, such as sports stars that use steroids. For 99% of all cases, it's a good unit of measure.


I disagree, I have a bodyfat percentage of around 20 and my BMI is 32. BMI is bullshit, it takes into consideration nothing like water/liquid balance, musclemass or heavyset ligament and muscle conjoinments (they can actually add quite a few pounds unlike a heavy bone structure which would add only 5-10% skeleton weight, truly trivial). One of my best friends' brother is a proffessional ski jumper and he has a normal BMI of 19 despite having less than 6% bodyfat. I'm currently schooling myself in fitness and nutriton to become a PT and one of the first and most repeated lessons we have is to never make use of BMI, it takes into account no factors of bodily composition, and is as such a very unreliable measure for a broad part of the populace.

i don't see why you are complaining about your friends BMI of 19, it's not a measure of strength it's a measure of health and being in the normal range is good.  Also a 32 BMI is not that bad and 20% body fat is not that good.  The recommended body fat for men is between 8-14%.

 



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stranne on 17 April 2008

I'm not a PT or anything, but my impression is that BMI works OK if you're a female of average built and height. The more you differ from that in muscle, height or gender the worse BMI works.

If I got to my "target weight" according to the BMI standard, I would look like a skeleton.

But BMI was probably the obvious choice for Nintendo. What would be better, get out your measuring tape? That's not "cool" enough.

Edit: Oh, and I'm eating chocolate right now.



mesoteto on 17 April 2008

what ever this wii fit thing is is probably going to be huge



 

Fastrabbit09 on 17 April 2008
Riot Of The Blood said:
TruckOSaurus said:
 

I don't understand how you can qualify developping a peripheral like the Wii Fit board who can measure weight and your movement on it as a cheap cash-in.


Here's the way I see it: For me, this game fits into the same category as Wii Sports, Sonic & Mario, and ect. This game, like the others I mentioned, is a low budget game meant only to cash in on the Wii. Therefore, it's a cheap cash-in like the other games. If this were a third-party game doing the exact same thing, you guys would be calling it low quality party game BS.

 

just because u don't like a game doesn't make it a cash-in

a) it's not a cheap cash-in considering they had to develop the balance board...developing a peripheral like that is NOT cheap

b) it is meant to EXPAND the audience, just like Wii Sports, not meant to cash in

c) how can you say that Wii Sports is a cheap cash-in?  It was FREE in most of the world...how is that a cash-in?

your bias is getting the best of you



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tabsina on 17 April 2008
MaxwellGT2000 said:
SaviorX said:
Mummelmann said:
TheBigFatJ said:
FreeTalkLive said:
BMI is not a good measure for people who are athletic but it works well for average people.

The BMI is accurate for athletic people as well. It is only inaccurate for extremely well muscled people, such as sports stars that use steroids. For 99% of all cases, it's a good unit of measure.


I disagree, I have a bodyfat percentage of around 20 and my BMI is 32. BMI is bullshit, it takes into consideration nothing like water/liquid balance, musclemass or heavyset ligament and muscle conjoinments (they can actually add quite a few pounds unlike a heavy bone structure which would add only 5-10% skeleton weight, truly trivial). One of my best friends' brother is a proffessional ski jumper and he has a normal BMI of 19 despite having less than 6% bodyfat. I'm currently schooling myself in fitness and nutriton to become a PT and one of the first and most repeated lessons we have is to never make use of BMI, it takes into account no factors of bodily composition, and is as such a very unreliable measure for a broad part of the populace.


 

The Wii Fit is pretty basic. It isn't supposed to be substituted for real weight loss or take into account those specific measurements you mentioned in your post.

My thoughts exactly, it's a bit of a personal motivator, you have BMI to motivate you to go for a personal goal, to reach the next level, it's still a game in that aspect =P I mean I would play it to help me keep in shape as if I'm home I'm not likely to exercise, but if you put it into game form I would.


um.. i don't think you guys know this.. but you can actually set it to just show your weight instead of BMI.. BMI is just the default when you open the box

Not going to respond to the cash-in, non-game shit.. because we all know those are the same people who classify (as well as those who classified until playing) wii sports as a purely casual title.. i for one think its fantastic FUN.. hence making it a game.. just like wii fit has those types of quick and easy-to-get-into games that are FUN which don't even need the exercise component to compliment their purpose, even though it does



Vertigo-X on 17 April 2008
Riot Of The Blood said:
Lame.

I don't understand why anyone would be interested in this cheap cash-in crap. These type of games are what puts Nintendo into EA category.

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