Regardles it's a life style change, and changing a persons style of living is chaning their lives.

I'm 100% certain Wiifit gives you warm up rounds before you get into everything else, and will tutor you on body positioning.

The states will have to wait... I wasn't planing on getting this but now that you have me all interested to see this thing first hand I have to fork up the 90 =(.

Regardless I honestly do believe when applied with the initial intention of the developer or the found but useful method of the consumer and not idioticlideals such as, Let's use it like a frisbii.

Words Of Wisdom said: Oyvoyvoyv said: @WoW How are they really stupid? Most of them thought that Wii Fit would be fun, but not fully as good as the gym. They quit the gym for 1 month. They can come back for free, or don't come back. Most of them will have 10 days with Wii Fit + to determine. IMO they're smarter than the ones who both have the gym, Wii Fit and uses only Wii Fit, which I reckon will be quite a few. Also, Mummel, Elixia has more than 10K customers. The one in my city is 4500 users, and I doubt there are only 5500 more (there are 1 other in my town too) I am implying only the ones that think WiiFit is their one-shot solution to all their fitness needs are foolish.

This i agree completely, but it's the same thing with every other equipment too. And this includes the body building in the gym.
Anyway, thinking that most people fill their fitness needs with reaching TV remote and walking to the fridge and back during commercials, i think Wii Fit is extremely good thing in comparision.

WoW I think if everyone used WiiFit for an hour a day we would see some effect on the US population.

75% was higher then I expected, but after using WiiFit for a few days I can confirm that it really does make you work hard...pushups, jackknifes, the tree pose....really tough stuff and I've only unlocked half of them...there are also "challenge the trainer" modes that really can make you push yourself.

Heck even super hulahoop is tiring if your trying to beat a very high score set by your brother that you WILL beat even if it kills you......ummm....where was I...

Today Wiifit told me (nicely) to concentrate on activies other then balance games
It's really keeping track of things, my whole family are using it for hours everyday which makes everyone more determind to do well and try harder.

I work from home and can take 15min - 30 min breaks to do a little yoga, a muscle excerise and then a quick game and then yoga again...it really helps me burn off a bit of frustration in a work out and then relax - all without leaving the house during a working day.

It's an excellent tool for fitness and fun. My sister and mother seem very keen on using it - which is a far cry from their gym membership, they have only gone twice in 3 months.

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It's the same for me. Currently, I've used it for 3 hours, my dad 1, my sister 1 and my mom 1. My friend has used it for about 30min. This is in 2 days only (today and yesterday)

hahahaha thats is great

Mummelmann said: famousringo said: I'd be curious to know how often those customers used the fitness centre. There are a lot of people with gym memberships who never get around to going in. I can see somebody getting better results from using Wii Fit two hours a week than going to a gym for two hours a month. In Norway, about 20% use the gym they pay for every week or so. On topic; Elixia is very small compared to S.A.T.S, Spenst, Kaliber (where I work) , 3T and City Gym (select small towns only, we have one near here) and their total amount of customers would probably amount to about 20.000 (roughly 5% of Norwegian gym memberships), which again turns out to 1600 when removing 8%. Significant for Elixia perhaps but not in the grand scheme of things. And the reason PT's and instructors are "badmouthing" WiiFit is not that they are afraid of loosing cash, rather that consumers in most cases are lead to believe that WiiFit will cover as many bases as a gym with a PT/instructor. They/we feel that people need to realize that good old exercises tried and true are the best and most efficent way of getting fit/healthy. I think the main issue is that most people want to work out but don't want to spend a lot of time or energy doing it, at which point we need to tell them that there is no easy way into better health. I am not opposed to the idea of WiiFit, I'm simply worried over all those who think that it will replace a well equipped gym and the people who work there!

I'd guess the people who think that are the people who aren't going to a gym in the first place.  Or do go to the gym and then spend all their time on the low stress machines more so they can say they went rather then actually go.

Either that or they are just idiots.  I mean you need a degree to be a personal trainer.   Maybe it's different in europe been in America most people who go to a gym and don't have a personal trainer.  They don't talk to anybody in the gym and just do whatever excercises they fancy...  even more don't go to gyms and just do home workouts.

For the majority of people who work out Wii Fit is going to be a good thing... the only very small population of people it's going to hurt are idiots who have a gym membership and also are stupid enough to think a home fitness product is going to equal a gym workout with a personal trainer. (Because if they are that stupid they likely are doing the wrong gym workouts in the first place.)

Most of those people have probably already left their gyms and bought "The Total Gym" anyway. 

Kasz216 said: I'd guess the people who think that are the people who aren't going to a gym in the first place.  Or do go to the gym and then spend all their time on the low stress machines more so they can say they went rather then actually go. Either that or they are just idiots.  I mean you need a degree to be a personal trainer.   Maybe it's different in europe been in America most people who go to a gym and don't have a personal trainer.  They don't talk to anybody in the gym and just do whatever excercises they fancy...  even more don't go to gyms and just do home workouts. For the majority of people who work out Wii Fit is going to be a good thing... the only very small population of people it's going to hurt are idiots who have a gym membership and also are stupid enough to think a home fitness product is going to equal a gym workout with a personal trainer. (Because if they are that stupid they likely are doing the wrong gym workouts in the first place.) Most of those people have probably already left their gyms and bought "The Total Gym" anyway.

Well low stress machines aren't bad at all if you spend long enough time in them. They do improve your fit.

Most people don't have a personal trainer, but using a trainer is getting more common since apparently quite a lot of trainers offer you a "lesson" for free and they tell you their opinion about your strengths and weaknesses and then (if you decide to use one) charge you for instructing and stuff.

"The Total Gym" was a perfect example what i was thinking. That's the kind of "bogus*" products what are "competing" with gyms. They even get marketed like: "This fantastic product offers you 110% more efficient cardio-vascular exercise than regular chin-ups at the gym".

*bogus as in marketed as something they are not, like gym replacements instead of home exercise devices.

"Life is complicated.  I joined gyms, trained at gyms, quit gyms.  Perhaps with Wii Fit, things will be different."

Yeah, that works.

dib8rman said: Regardles it's a life style change, and changing a persons style of living is chaning their lives. I'm 100% certain Wiifit gives you warm up rounds before you get into everything else, and will tutor you on body positioning. The states will have to wait... I wasn't planing on getting this but now that you have me all interested to see this thing first hand I have to fork up the 90 =(. Regardless I honestly do believe when applied with the initial intention of the developer or the found but useful method of the consumer and not idioticlideals such as, Let's use it like a frisbii.

It doesn't really give warm up rounds, but I haven't really seen anything that it tells you to do that is directly strenuous enough to injure you unless you aren't doing it as they instructed, and they do give you a short introduction and explanation of form the first time you do an exercise. The only thing I can think of currently that'd I'd really have to warm up and prepare for would be the push-up challenge against the trainer.

Alasted said: "Life is complicated.  I joined gyms, trained at gyms, quit gyms.  Perhaps with Wii Fit, things will be different." Yeah, that works.

Ohhhh wow....you know I just had a crazy thought....

When the GTA4 PC version comes out you could make a WiiFit-like mod for it using the WiiBoard as it also uses Bluetooth communication just like a Wiimote....have any hacks been made for the Wiiboard yet?