BMI: 27.23
Body Age: 29
Training Time: 50 minutes

I woke up very sore from yesterdays strength training day. It felt sort of good though, like I had definitely accomplished something with all the work I put in yesterday. Now after another aerobic day I feel even more sore, especially in the abdomen region which is one of my target areas. Wii Fit is definitely giving me a good workout. Today I unlocked a bunch more balance games and a few new Yoga poses and strength training exercises. The balance games are pretty silly, I don’t really see all that much point in them, but they are fun to take my mind off all the exercise.

I unlocked the Tae Bo mini-game that I saw other people talk about and it’s just as good as they say. There is something very fun and satisfying about it and I’m looking forward to doing more. The short run kicked my butt again today and now I’ve unlocked the long run so the next aerobic day should be even more intense. And I’m finally feeling like I’m getting the Yoga poses down. My form is improving and I’m starting to understand better how to best execute the forms. Plus my balance seems to be getting more steady and I’m having much less trouble standing on one leg. I finally managed to do the Tree pose on my second try today so that feels like a definite accomplishment.

Tomorrow is another strength training day. I wonder how long I’ll have to do this before I’m not totally sore every day.

BMI: 27.26
Body Age: 31
Training Time: 41 minutes

Today I did mostly yoga and strength training exercises with a few balance games to keep me motivated. The strength training kicked my butt and I definitely think that’s where the bulk of the improvement will come from. I had the most trouble with the pushups which didn’t surprise me, I’ve pretty much always had pathetically bad arm strength. Still I made it through two sets of reps which gave me hope for the future.

The yoga is starting to get really interesting, now that I’m unlocking some of the more advanced poses and stuff. I’m starting to get much better scores on the poses that require balance and that’s making me feel like I’m actually accomplishing something. I’m looking forward to unlocking the rest of the poses, I feel like that’s going to really make a difference, just having more variety of poses to try. That said I’m still not really that adept at the poses I have unlocked so maybe I’m not ready for them anyway. Wii Fit seems to do a pretty great job of parcelling exercises out which both keeps me motivated to unlock stuff as well as keeps me from trying more strenuous exercises before I’m really ready for them.

Tomorrow it’s back to aerobics and yoga. I feel like I’m starting to integrate Wii Fit into my daily non-schedule, and that can only be a good thing.

BMI: 27.38
Body Age: 32
Training Time: 36 minutes

Today was my first Yoga + aerobics/balance day and it went pretty good I think. The Yoga will make a real difference for me, I’ve always been the least flexible person I know and you can totally tell watching me try and do these crazy poses. I unlocked the touch your toes exercise and, as expected, I can’t even come close. Like I said yesterday, that’s the one I’m most excited about because it’s something I have never been able to do.

The aerobics are also really good. I broke my first sweat doing the run in place exercise, I think that’s going to be a big one for me, and it felt really good. I actually started to feel like I was doing something to improve my fitness level. I also got a good enough score on the Hula Hoop exercise to unlock the Super Hula Hoop which was cool. As for the balance games I’m starting to do a bit better but this is an area where I think I need a lot of work. I can make it all the way through the Slalom now though, which seems like an achievement of sorts.

Tomorrow will be the first strength training day, so we’ll see how that goes. When I hit 30 minutes of training time today the fit bank got very excited, it was cute. And like yesterday my BMI went down. How much of that is just the time I did it and not having eaten etc… only time will tell. But it does feel encouraging.

BMI: 27.62
Body Age: 36
Training Time: 18 minutes

So begins my (hopefully) daily journals about using Wii Fit. While I was waiting for the game to be released here I got really into reading this journal about using Wii Fit from an American in Japan, and I thought that when I started using it I would do the same thing. I think it will help motivate me to do well and keep going with it.

Ok, so my goals for the summer are as follows: Get my BMI down to a respectable 22 and get as flexible as I can be. Right now I’m far, far from where I should be and I want to change that. As a side goal, I’ve never been able to touch my toes, no matter what my weight has been, so I’d really like to finally be able to do that. If I can accomplish that goal then Wii Fit will really have done something for me. For this summer at least I plan to use Wii Fit for at least a half-hour and no more than an hour every day.

Today I mostly was just getting a feel for the balance board and the game in general. Two friends were here and we all got measured and did some basic workout stuff. We are all going to try and use Wii Fit this summer and I think having other people doing it as well will make a big difference. I did some Yoga, some balance games, some aerobics, and some strength training. I have a feeling that the Yoga and strength training will be where I spend the bulk of my time, but we’ll see how it goes. Even with only an eighteen minute workout I noticed some soreness in my legs and side, a good sign that I’m on the path to something good.

Tomorrow will be my first real day with the system. Summer of Fitness 2k8 begin!

I’m officially picking the Cleveland Cavaliers to beat the San Antonio Spurs in five games. Crazy? Maybe. But I don’t know, I just think they can do it. They did just beat a Nets team and a Pistons team that nobody thought they would beat.

So, there you have it, my pick is on record.

i don’t know anyone who uses twitter. which makes the whole thing very unuseful for me. i sort of get how it could be cool, if you had lots of friends who were members and wanted to know what they were up to. but given that the only person’s status i can check is mine, and i generally have a pretty good idea of what i’m doing at any given moment, it’s just not all that awesome.

it seems to be a very popular site, but not in the way that myspace is. when i meet someone, no matter what level of technical background they have, i just assume they are myspace members. i don’t know anyone who is a twitter member. no one. and until twitter gets the level of regular people joining that sites like myspace, facebook, and friendster have, it just isn’t that useful in every day life.

but maybe in a year i’ll read this and think it was incredibly lacking in foresight. i guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

So I’m using Bandwagon right now to back up my ~40GB or so of music. And it’s working great so far, exactly as advertised. But the problem is that it doesn’t really solve a very interesting problem for me. On the one hand it’s great that all my music is backed up. If anything happens, if my computer were to implode in a ball of fire, it’s nice to know that I’d still have all my music. But I don’t really care about that. I have almost everything on CD and the things I don’t have I could easily get again through other methods. The thing I really want is to have access to my music from anywhere.

If someone had a service where I could upload all my music and then access it, over the web, from wherever, I would be extremely interested in that. All day at work I listen to music and then I get home and I don’t have the same music. And on my phone, etc… That would be something really exciting.

So these crazy people have developed an iTunes backup thing. And are giving out free accounts for a year to any blogger who posts something about it. Not a bad idea really, and thus I’m taking part. Thank you very much Bandwagon!

It’s so true, if you were watching the video, you’d be laughing right now.

Guaranteed. Unless you suck, and then maybe not. But you suck, so who cares?

When we cast our love into the sea of human emotion, sometimes what we catch is in fate’s hands.

I never asked to be a fisherman in such a sea as this.