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Wii Fit will still be in English. It asks you if you want to match your settings to the settings you've configured in the Wii menu, so you just say no. Then you get Wii Fit, in English, but with metric measurements. Everyone's a winner. The only thing I've seen coming up in French is the Nintendo Channel, which I've used precisely once. |
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Grunk 4,718 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAnyone find that the balance board doesn't pick up your movements on the football heading game or the hula hoop game properly? or am I doing it wrong somehow -
JuanKerr 37,710 posts
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Registered 15 years agoGrunk wrote:
Anyone find that the balance board doesn't pick up your movements on the football heading game or the hula hoop game properly? or am I doing it wrong somehow
Works fine for me in both those games. -
malteaserhead 13,443 posts
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Registered 17 years ago@Grunk
I thought that too but found a work around (or the proper way to do it
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In the hula (same as footy though) when thrown hoop from the left, sure lean over all you like but, make sure to actually press your left foot down on the board.
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Grunk 4,718 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI think that might be the problem, although I am leaning my centre of gravity may still be right in the middle still. -
malteaserhead 13,443 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIt's a strange one as the balance test (and other games) pick up the slightest movement in cog but hula and footy seem to work better with pressure
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malteaserhead 13,443 posts
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Registered 17 years agoalso I only got back into it this week and I did the lunges.
15 reps each and my legs turned to jelly for about 20 minutes and burned for the next two days. stupid puny legs.gif)
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Can someone explain the final balance game to me? The Zen thing where you have to sit on the board?
I'm sitting stupidly still and the candle isn't moving at all - suddenly game over.
I'm sitting reasonably still but the candle's wobbling about quite a bit - game lasts a bit longer.
Also the dodging in boxing is never goddamn recognised. Still get 4 stars on Super Advanced every day though. Whee. -
glo 3,797 posts
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Registered 19 years agoThe zen meditation thing - you have to relax and sit very still. I find that placing a towel over the board makes it more possible as it no longer so damned uncomfortable to sit crosslegged on. I can get around 60-90 seconds usually though I don't play it much.
Dodging in boxing - I had exactly the same problem and had almost given up on it. Now I can dodge almost every time. You need to do really overexaggerated dodges and swing the nunchuk/wiimote til they are horizontal.
How do you get 4 stars on super advanced? You're timing must be perfect. I am happy to consistently get 3 stars on the boxing. -
Dunno...I'm great at the step plus too, so I guess I have more natural rhythm than I give myself credit for.
My average Super Advanced boxing score is usually around 1230 or so. If I can perfect the dodge I can probably get that up to 1250. -
glo 3,797 posts
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Registered 19 years agoMy shocking lack of rhythm must be why I have struggled to get 3 stars on step also then. -
malteaserhead 13,443 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI haven't had a problem with the dodge myself, hold them vertically and swoosh them?
It took a while for me to work out which way to punch when stepping back though. :/ -
tardo 261 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI've had no problems with the zen meditation one though. I've lasted to 180 seconds twice, which is when it finishes/is completed, and maybe 120 seconds another two times or so. Haven't done it other than that I think, as all it is is just sitting (very still) there! -
I don't think the dodge is that sensitive to the specific movement of the remote and nunchuck. As long as you swing it at all, I think it's more to do with making sure you've got the correct foot still on the board when you do it, no? That was what got me at first. -
HankScorpio 868 posts
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Registered 17 years agoHooray! I finally hit "Ideal" today, after 102 days ... lost a stone, played around 4 hours training time, and also in my final week of "Couch To 5K" - the system works! -
GRAW 21 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI'm still to get wii fit but a friend of mine said he found it better than he thought he would. *plans to get before shaun white snowboarding* -
I just started using this. I am a abdominal legend, the rest im classed as a couch potato.
It really does make you sweaty this game. But I'm only interested in the muscle workouts and the aerobic stuff.
The balance games are fun and the yoga that's just not my thing.
I started off ideal so obviously my target is to remain ideal. I like the graph thing cause it shows the fluctuation of my weight after certain events such as having a piss up. -
malteaserhead 13,443 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAt least try the yoga, I thought it'd be too mild for my (obviously) manly physique to get any benefit from but now I always warm up with a few poses and think they're great.
Rarely play the balance games though
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JuanKerr 37,710 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI did a Wii Fit session for the first time in 23 days on Tuesday night (been on a few holidays) and I'm now genuinely aching.
The press up/side stand is a tough exercise, and I really like the parallel stretch. Also enjoy taking on my trainer in the press up competiton, but finding that hard at the moment because my elbow starts to really hurt after about 12 press ups.
Like you mcmonkey, I only do the muscle and aerobic stuff, with the odd balance game. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoHank Scorpio wrote:
Hooray! I finally hit "Ideal" today, after 102 days ... lost a stone, played around 4 hours training time, and also in my final week of "Couch To 5K" - the system works!
You do realise that it was mostly the running that achieved this?! -
There doesn't appear to be anything else apart from the running that is really designed to burn fat. -
BanjoMan 13,692 posts
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Registered 15 years agomcmonkeyplc wrote:
Super advanced boxing. And the extra long hula.
There doesn't appear to be anything else apart from the running that is really designed to burn fat.
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glo 3,797 posts
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Registered 19 years agoThe running is the key aerobic exercise for breaking a sweat. I usually do a 20 minute free jog and aim for around 7k+. The 6 and 10 minute boxing is not bad especially if you throw proper punches.
Super hula 6 and 10 minutes are quite knackering though I don't play them much because middle aged men with beer bellies hula hooping is not something anyone wants to see. -
JuanKerr 37,710 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI did the balance test thingy on Tuesday and I got the dot absolutely bang on in the middle. Perfect balance! -
BanjoMan 13,692 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSuper advanced boxing is my favourite, followed by a bit of yoghurt and some muscle workouts. -
jaxon58 2,555 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI tend to only use the boxing and jogging now for fat burning. The hula is good but I think it knackered my knee in so I'm avoiding it for now.
I've lost one stone in two months with it so far and really enjoying it.
It's great to think back to how difficult some of the muscle exercises were at the start, such as the press ups and jackknifes, and how much easier they are now. -
BanjoMan 13,692 posts
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Registered 15 years agoJuanKerr wrote:
/puts stack of books on JuanKerr's head
I did the balance test thingy on Tuesday and I got the dot absolutely bang on in the middle. Perfect balance! -
JuanKerr 37,710 posts
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Registered 15 years ago/ dot doesn't move
/ reaps benefit of going to finishing school -
Shinji 5,902 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI'm a lot more knackered after boxing than jogging - I think you need to really throw yourself into the punches and move your entire upper body to get the full benefit, though.
Rather happy with Wii Fit today, I'm down a stone since I started playing about two months ago. Some of that is the exercise, obviously, but I think that the simple act of getting an accurate weight measurement every morning is a big part of it too. It really makes you think about what you're eating. -
Shinji wrote:
I think that the simple act of getting an accurate weight measurement every morning is a big part of it too. It really makes you think about what you're eating.
I actually started getting a little bit obsessed with my daily Wii Fit weigh-in. Any doctor will tell you it's not good to weigh yourself every day, and it doesn't give you the most accurate picture of your weight trend either. For example, to put it bluntly, doing Wii Fit before going for a morning dump will doubtless cause you to have "put on" weight in its eyes...
Even when I got my weight down to 72 kilos (BMI 22), it still tells me off if I'm 0.3 kilos heavier than yesterday, and forces me to explain myself, ("I ate a late dinner"). I don't think that's healthy, or even relevant. I mean, on one hand, it's telling me to aim for a BMI of 22, but then I actually AM that weight, and it's bollocking me for having my dinner at the wrong time.
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