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Wii turns wimp into Hero of the Beach!
Synthetic Orange
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/01/17/1168709803547.html
tldr: Wii turns chubby guy into slightly less chubby guy. More news as it happens.
So what are everyone's wii experiences like? The first few days of owning a Wii damn near paralysed me with burning pain in my arms and upper body. I'm hardly even breaking into a sweat now when playing Wii sports, although this might be because I'm being pummeled into the canvas all the time by Pro level boxers.
Video games and weight loss are rarely seen side-by-side - unless you are referring to Nintendo's newest games console, the Wii, which has enticed gamers the world over to get up off the couch.
One Wii owner has reported that, in just six weeks of play, he had dropped 2 per cent of his body fat rating, thanks to the console's motion-sensitive control scheme that rewards active movement when directing in-game characters.
Mickey DeLorenzo, a 25-year-old living in Philadelphia, began his "Wii Sports Experiment" in early December last year, pledging to spend 30 minutes a day over six weeks playing Wii sports.
He would strive to keep his other activities and eating habits constant.
On Monday when the six weeks were over, DeLorenzo updated his website, wiinintendo.net, with a detailed analysis of his results.
"I lost 9lbs! [four kilograms]," he wrote, which he was impressed with because he had not fluctuated from his original weight of 82 kilograms in two years, and made no effort to change his diet.
"Also, this experiment took place during the holiday season, where I ate holiday dinners like I normally would and drank what I would normally would have drank."
DeLorenzo used a digital body fat caliper, recording a drop in his body fat rating of 2 per cent from a starting figure of 19 per cent.
His waist measurement fell from 87.6 centimetres to 78.7 centimetres.
"According to The American Council on Exercise, I went from being in the 'acceptable' category to being in the 'fitness' category," he said.
Before and after photographs posted on his website showed a marked reduction in fat around the stomach and chin. The increase in abdomen muscle definition was clear.
Being an avid gamer, DeLorenzo's secondary goal was to determine which of the five Wii Sports games - tennis, boxing, baseball, bowling or golf - helped to burn the most calories. He measured this using a BioTrainer exercise monitor.
Boxing was found to be the most efficient calorie burner: "I burned an average of 125 calories during a 15 minute period," he wrote.
Tennis was second at 92 calories per 15 minutes and bowling was third at 77 calories. DeLorenzo said he didn't "get around to" conducting measurements for the baseball and golf games.
DeLorenzo said that it was important to make an effort to be active while playing the games.
"I moved my feet, I used full body motion, and I swung my arms to mimic the real thing," he said.
"If you just stand there and make small moves or sit on the couch and play, I don't think you'll [see] much if any results regarding exercise."
He planned to continue the experiment, with the goal of trimming a further 3 per cent from his body fat rating.
tldr: Wii turns chubby guy into slightly less chubby guy. More news as it happens.
So what are everyone's wii experiences like? The first few days of owning a Wii damn near paralysed me with burning pain in my arms and upper body. I'm hardly even breaking into a sweat now when playing Wii sports, although this might be because I'm being pummeled into the canvas all the time by Pro level boxers.
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I'm weak as hell, though.
For serious. Nothing beats stepping games when it comes to weight loss.
As for arms, well, you could always play Para Para Paradise.
[Insert fancy footwork joke here]
plus its probably more fun than ddr! haha.
[spoiler:455f81f85d]Yeah there are better images but fuck it, that's enoigh GIS effort[/spoiler:455f81f85d]
He doesn't convince me of much. Except that he has a three dimensional Bart Simpson hairdo.
Not if you have a metal pad! :P
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While he was certainly not chubby before, he had enough body fat that there is a visible reduction.
Doesn't that Wii Health thing that's coming out in Japan use a pad?
I'd call 'shop on that, but after doing some detective work (ie: going to the guy's site) I could see its just an artifact of the compression. But still pretty funny. Like he did the whole thing and didn't have the cojones to say he didn't lose any weight, so just did a crappy 'shop.
Well I though it was funny...
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
110 lbs. *flex*
Well, not entirely to DDR. But a huge chunk.
And I would not call that dude chubby at all.
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You'd have to have Stepmania loaded with GH songs or something but it would be spectacular.
I like how you see through my clever ploys
Are you actually trying to lose weight by doing bench presses and squats?
WII GET! Found one in Woolworth's in town just a short while ago. Saw the box behind the counter, and asked if it was for sale. Till monkey says no, they had 5 in yesterday and they all sold. Wait a minute says supervisor monkey, I think we have one. Yes, turns out someone asked for it to be put aside and never came back.
It is updating right now, 5 more minutes and I'll finally be waggling for England. It is so pretty I could cry.
She sounds like someone who's fit and playing the Wii, but every video of her seems to be removed from all locations.
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I think if anything, he just was not eating much at all in addition to playing the Wii.
There are better arguments for this, like the fact the amount of calories he says he burned while playing Wii would only amount to about 2 lbs of weight loss... but I really don't know anything about that.
I don't even feel winded playing like 10 games of boxing in a row anymore. I can't tell if it's because I am moving around less or the Wii somehow got me into better aerobic shape.
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You know, height is a factor too. Duh.
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