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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Rondar on February 07, 2010, 02:56:29 AM
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My wife wants to get one of those Wii things that you hook up to the tv and then you can do excercise stuff and also sports like bowling, tennis, baseball, etc. Any of you guys have one and are they pretty cool? Are they worth the money for entertainment or not? Just wondering. Last gadget like that we bought was the ole Nintendo thing with the plug in cartridges and it came with Mario Brothers :o
I would be hooking it up to a projector and a 5 channel surround system.
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Wife has the Wii Fit Plus program and balance board. She loves it and uses it every day. :aok
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Are they worth the money for entertainment or not? Just wondering.
The only ones that can really answer that question are your wife & you... it's like with music or movies: Different people, different tastes.
That being said, my wife has recently bought a wii and still loves it. I admit that I secrety do some bowling or golf there between 2 AH sorties late at night, when nobody can see me ;)
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We have the wii with the wii fit and the balance board.
I probably use it more than the wife does.
Personally I enjoy the ski jumping and downhill ski racing.
If your just getting it to game, thats a harder decision IMO.
As a lot depends on what kind of gaming your interested in, single, vs room full of people etc.
But if your getting it to have some fun and get in shape then by all means.
Just get in the habit of using it every day.
I think the Wii does "social" gaming better than most other consoles.
And I do like the cordless controllers.
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I think it's great. It's very immersive.
you have to swing the controller for golf, for batting....tennis can give you a wicked workout.....
and I have smacked my opponent up side the head a couple of times. Best part is....they can't tell it was intentional.
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Just be aware that repetitive-strain injuries are still very possible using those gadgets. Not only that, the gadgets don't weigh much so it is easy to hyper-extend joints or get other injuries. Attaching a 1lb weight to the gadgets would feel a bit weird but it might help with the injuries since your wife would be more aware of the movements and injury potential.
Of course adding a weight makes it more likely to injure other people or bust the TV if she lets go of the thing, but that's the risk you take working out at home instead of outside or in a gym :)
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I'd just like to say i beat the table tennis champion 'Lydia' 6-1 yesterday and that was after going through some serious practice!!!
she hacks!! :joystick:
If you buy it for her make sure she uses it every dam day and doesn't let it gather dust under your coffee table :rolleyes:
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To each their own. At our house its become the least used of any gaming system we've ever had.
And over the years. We've had pretty much all of them in one form or another.
One way for yo to find out is to run down to your local best buy and try one out for yourself.
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Great system whole family loves it. Mario Kart is the family favorite at this time we enjoy joining online games and playing others from around the world. Not as fun as AH but the whole family can play together with the wii.
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We have a Wii with the balance board and the Wii Fit game as well. However we generally use it for games like Shaun White Snowboarding...that 3-4 minutes on a downhill with the board will whip your butt if you do it for about 30 minutes. I like the downhill skiing and the ski jump on the Wii Fit game as well.
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I like the Wii. We got Wii Fit and Wii Active.
I like the ability to pay for old school Nintendo games, and I love Beatles Rock Band.
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I lost about 20 pounds in roughly 3 months by using the Wii fit balance board thing about 30 minutes a day.
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I lost about 20 pounds in roughly 3 months by using the Wii fit balance board thing about 30 minutes a day.
I'm sure there's more to it than just using a Wii board. Either additional training or/and less caloric food input.
If not, the wii would probably the most effective excercise machine in the world. ;)
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Well Lusche like anything else its going to work best as part of a well balanced program of healthy diet, and exercise.
But even a 15 min workout on the Wii balance board doing ski jumping or downhill skiing will make a difference.
Its amazing sometimes how much work doing perfect balance is. With the Salom Skiing, your constantly changing balance from left to right, plus leaning forward to speed up, back to slow down. Your whole body is into the act.
Plus its a lot more fun than just doing the same amount of time on a treadmill.
I don't use it to lose weight, at 173 lbs and 5'8" I'm happy with where I'm at.
But it does help keep me trim while being low impact. Easy on ankles, knees, etc.
The other thing it does a very good job at is keeping track of stuff like weight loss or gain, how often you use it, etc.
Biggest problem here is just getting the wife to use it.
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I'm not sure how effective it is for aiding fitness...I do however believe it is a pretty cool machine to bring out after a few drinks with friends.....like charades or pictionary....but even funnier and more fun...
pretty cool family entertainment also..(even for the, I'm to cool for this so I'll just play along and not show that I'm liking it teen)
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so no-one else has pwned that evil 'lydia' character at table tennis? or is it just me that fulfilled that obsession :uhoh
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+1 We have it wife and son love it lots of family fun :aok
Wife has the Wii Fit Plus program and balance board. She loves it and uses it every day. :aok
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Thanks for the replies. guys. We would use this for the fitness part #1 and entertainment at other times for 2. My wife has been watching her weight and doing well, and I *cough* have been finding what she has lost. :cry
On the fitness stuff, is it a one person thing or can we both do say, tennis, or skiing or snowboarding, whatever? I see where maybe some games are multi person but we would buy it for fitness first.
Also, lol I live in the boonies. I dont have a local bestbuy to go to. In fact my closest one is 170 miles away. We have to drive 65 miles to eat a McSandwich or a Wendy's, or a Walmart. Out town is of roughly 850 population and I live outside of town on a farm.
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As No-one has mentioned it, I will.
Lightsabers!!
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We got one, my wife loves it. She wants to get one of those Fit boards, for now it's Wii Sprts Tennis and Super Mario Bros. Me, Guitar Hero.
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I'm sure there's more to it than just using a Wii board. Either additional training or/and less caloric food input.
If not, the wii would probably the most effective excercise machine in the world. ;)
Actually no... It was the wii game alone. I changed nothing about my diet. I did 30 minutes of the rythm boxing daily. It is actually a fair workout for somebody who is unable to do anything high impact like me.
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`bought my wife a Wii with balance board and Wii fit plus 8 weeks ago. She enjoys it very much. Meanwhile her friend has one too, and both spend some couple of hours in the week. I like playing golf and playing tennis. I am not into this yoga-stuff. Last week I bought Wii Sports Resort and Mario Kart. Not as addictive as AH, but much fun (Wii has on board wifi - connecting it to my WLAN-router took about few minutes. There is even an opera internetbrowser installed...)
Regards
SF
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Get the wii ! It is endless fun for everyone also if you are into shooters get the wii blaster with either call of duty world at war or modern warfare. I have both and it is alot of fun. people will reply the xbox and ps3 graphics blow it out of the water and that is true. the wii makes up for it in gameplay.
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Wii love our wii.
Wii use it all the time though wii need to get some more games. Wii just finished Super Paper Mario, and we're well into Mario Galaxy. The Sports games are pretty good, I do like the golf ones. We're also playing some of the old gamecube ones on it too.
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Get the Metroid Trilogy as well. Amazing series.
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Bought the wife ack one of those Wii fit boards on half dot com and saved a good deal of money...gets used more than the $200 exercycle I bought her.
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We got it about a year ago..hadn't been on it since, but the kids play it a lot and the wife does the yoga stuff
I got on it the other day and it said -
" I see you bought a piano, please drop it and try again"
:D
NwBie
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" I see you bought a piano, please drop it and try again"
:D
NwBie
That's funny right there...first time I got on it, the thing said "cannot calculate your weight, one person at a time please"...last time I got on it, started calculating my weight then froze and rebooted. I think it's trying to tell me something. :headscratch:
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Get it. your wife will thank you for it, also if you have kids it is a great way to get them off your back when your concentrating on aces, no more DAD DAD DAD! DAD!! DAD!!!!!. :rock Rondar <S>