Fun training with Nintendo Wii Fit !!

Wii Fit is a video game developed by Nintendo for the Wii console. Previously revealed under the name Wii Health Pack, it was announced under its current title at Nintendo’s E3 press.
As with other games designed by Miyamoto such as Nintendogs, the design of Wii Fit was influenced by activities in Miyamoto’s daily life. Miyamoto states that he and his family had become more health-conscious, going to the gym and tracking their weight. He found that it had become “fun over time to talk about these things”, and as weighing yourself “didn’t make much of a game”, they decided to build games around the idea to mesh with the concept.

Wii Fit uses a unique platform peripheral called the Wii Balance Board, which resembles a double-width bathroom scale, supports weights of up to 330 pounds or so, that can measure a user’s weight and center of gravity. Powered by four AA batteries, it’s rated for around 60 hours of use. The software can then calculate their body mass index when told the user’s height. In addition to establishing your BMI, Wii Fit will also put you through an initial series of activities to test and grade your ability to balance the left and right sides of your body. Standing on the board and shifting your weight in all directions is essential to almost all of the Wii Fit games and physical activities. It will then assign you a Wii Fit age, another metric the software uses to record the progress toward your fitness goals. Built-in sensors track the side-to-side and front-to-back movements of the player to control the actions of the player’s avatar on screen. Unlike other popular video games that emphasize role-playing, stealth, warfare, or the supernatural, Wii Fit stresses aerobics, strength training, and muscle-toning exercises. The programme allows up to 8 people to track progress and monitor performance. Once you insert the Wii Fit Disc into a Wii console, a new channel - Wii Fit Channel can be added to your Wii Menu system.

The system also acts as a personal trainer of sorts by offering verbal and visual feedback, both encouragement and criticism.
If you can handle the truth about your body according to Wii Fit, it’s prepared to be your personal trainer and fitness coach, attributes that some think could mean blockbuster sales for the game and hardware bundle.
But what might hold the real key to Wii Fit’s popularity in the mass market is its ability to record and track changes to your body over time.

Training on Wii Fit is divided into four categories: yoga (Deep Breathing, Half-Moon, Warrior, Tree, Sun Salutation, Standing Knee, Palm Tree, Chair, Triangle, Downward-Facing Dog, Dance, Cobra, Bridge, Spinal Twist, Shoulder Stand), strength training (Single Leg Extension, Push-up and Side Plank, Torso and Waist Twists, Jackknife, Lunge, Rowing Squat, Single Leg twist, Sideways Leg Lift, Parallel Stretch, Triceps Extension, Arm and Leg Lift, Single Arm Stand, Push-up Challenge), aerobics (Jogging, Step aerobics, Rhythm boxing - similar to step aerobics but including the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to throw punches, Hula Hoop) and balance games (Ski jumping, Heading Soccer balls, Table Tilt - Where the player shifts their balance to get balls into holes, Penguin Slide - The player has to catch fish whilst balanced on a piece of ice, Lotus Focus - The player must remain motionless whilst looking at a flame).

The discussion point

Obesity experts slammed Nintendo after its Wii Fit game told a 10-year-old girl she was fat.
They fear the game could damage children’s body image and called on the company to warn parents it is not suitable for their offspring. However, a father from the South-East spoke today of the embarrassment when his stepdaughter played the game and was labelled fat. “She is a perfectly healthy, 4ft 9in tall 10-year-old who swims, dances and weighs only six stone,” said the father, who did not want to be named for fear of embarrassing the girl further. “I know it is just a game but we already have to worry about young girls starving themselves to look like magazine models and now we have a game that tells them they’re fat. This to me is very worrying.” Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum called for children to be banned from playing the game, claiming the BMI measurement was misleading. “I’m absolutely aghast that children are being told they are fat,” he said. “BMI is far from perfect but with children it simply should not be used. “A child’s BMI can change every month and it is perfectly possible for a child to be stocky, yet still very fit.
The official word from Nintendo: “Wii Fit is still capable of measuring the BMI for people aged between 2 and 20, but the resulting figures may not be entirely accurate for younger age groups due to varying levels of development.” Essentially, you should use a good measure of common sense in interpreting Wii Fit’s statistics, and you should not treat the device’s conclusions as a substitute for the advice of health care professionals.

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