Best Buy gives Product Replacement Plan for Wii Fit
Some of our readers are concerned that they are too heavy for Wii Fit, and apparantely Best Buy is concerned about people who are too heavy will play the game as well. The Wii Balance Board can carry up to a certain weight, but someone who’s too heavy might kill the board. Best Buy is now offering a Product Replacement Plan for $12.99 so that you would be covered in case someone who’s too heavy breaks your Wii Balance Board.
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Wii Sports vs. Real Sports: Burned calories calculated
Ever wondered how many calories you’re burning while playing some Wii Sports on your Nintendo Wii? The American Council on Exercise is a little late with their ‘Wii Sports fitness study’, but they did some great research. Here’s an overview of the calories burned per minute when playing the real sport compared to the numer of calories burned when playing Wii Sports:
Tennis:
The real sport: 8.1 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 5.3 calories per minute
Boxing:
The real sport: 10.2 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 7.2 calories per minute
Golf:
The real sport: 3.9 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 3.1 calories per minute
Bowling:
The real sport: 7.2 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 3.5 calories per minute
Baseball:
The real sport: 7.3 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 4.5 calories per minute
Off course everyone expected that real sports make you burn more calories than the Wii Sports games, but during their research they certainly didn’t play too active. The just flicked their wrists and didn’t throw their whole body into the game.
Source: Ace Fitness
Wii Fit 5-In-1 Fitness Bundle
There are a lot of nice Wii Fit accessories on the market that make exercising with the Wii Balance Board a lot more comfortable. A silicone skin for your Wii Balance Board is definitely a must-have, and a rechargeable battery for the board works good as well. When you buy all those cool Wii Fit accessories separtely you’ll have to pay a lot of money. Amazon is now offering a 5-In-1 Fitness Bundle made by DreamGear for Nintendo’s Wii Fit. These are the Wii Fit accessories included in this pack:
- Wii Balance Board carrying case
- Wii Balance Board socks
- Wii Balance Board rechargeable battery pack
- Fitness Mat
- Wii Balance Board silicone skin
New York gym using Wii Sports and Wii Fit
The Gravity fitness centre at Le Parker Meridien hotel in New York on West 57th Street decided they would transform their old squash court into a Wii Fit and Wii Sport room so that New Yorkers with small apartements have a place where they can comfortably play on the Wii. Not only does this Wii installation have a nice digital projector, Wii Fit and Wii Sports, they even have a personal trainer.
A Wii Sports session is pretty expensive, you pay $120 but you get perosnal one-on-one coaching from the human coach while you give the best of yourself in Wii Sports or Wii Fit. Some players claim that the personal trainer really motivates you to do the best you can. But there’s also a cheap $50 one hour session without the helpful personal trainer.
Source: TechRadar UK
Are you getting bored of Wii Fit yet?
Are you getting bored of Wii Fit yet? We sure aren’t but apparantely some people are already putting their Wii Balance Board away and are completely done with Wii Fit. If you wantn to achieve something with the Wii Fit Board, like losing weight or gaining some strength, then you’ll have to continue exercising or you’ll never achieve your goal.
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CNET reviewing Wii Fit and Wii Balance Board
The professional guys over at CNET.com wanted to find out more about Wii Fit for the Nintendo Wii as well. They have a look at all the available minigames, check out the Wii Balance Board and tell why the Wii Fit game is so great.
IGN reviews Wii Fit and Wii Balance Board
Matt from IGN Wii took the Wii Balance Board and Wii Fit to his place and did a video review of Nintendo’s latest healthy game. They gave it a nice 8 out of 10, you can read the full review here.
Diet specialist review Wii Fit, and they like it!
Sarah, a diet specialist from Diet.com, took some time to check out Nintendo’s Wii Fit and its Wii Balance Board. They are off course wondering if the Wii Fit really helps you lose weight, and even though they aren’t convinced about the healthy effects of the Wii they did find that the running minigame really helps getting your heart rate up.
