Wii Fit

Is my favorite game right now. I feel like I'm actually doing something while playing a video game. I'm seriously out of breath after playing it. It's amazing. It's awesome because there's such a variety of activities one can play, all falling into four categories: yoga, strength exercises, aerobics, and balance games. Most exercises use the Wii Balance Board, which is hard, stable, and useable on both hard floors and carpets.
The yoga is, of course, crazy poses, while the strength exercises range from push ups to planks to jack knives. Some exercises only use the Wii Remote to train the arms and measure full body movements. Occasionally, the game will suggest combining a strength exercise with a yoga pose. Aerobics include Hula Hooping, stepping on and off the Balance Board to a rhythm, rhythm boxing, and running in place (in which the Board is pushed to the side and the Remote is placed in a pocket to gauge running quality). Finally, the balance games include heading soccer balls, skiing, catching fish in a penguin suit (one of my faves), and meditating (stay seated on the Board perfectly still and don't let the candle flame move, or else...), all fun motion games that not only help coordination, but can be just as invigorating as the aerobics. In short, all the activities get the blood pumping.
I think anyone who owns a Wii should own Wii Fit because the Wii is all about getting off of that couch and moving the body. Considering the existence of Wii Sports (which usually comes bundled with the system), Nintendo obviously had movement in mind when it created the Wii. Personally, I don't like working out around people. A public gym is a public hell. So, I play Wii Fit to stay in shape in the privacy of my own home. Plus, it's cold where I live and I don't want to go out there. If you don't have the chance to get to a gym or a health center and you have a Wii, get Wii Fit. Even in this economy, ninety bucks isn't too much to pay for fitness that lasts. In no time, you'll be moving like this:
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Well, maybe not like that...but I could totally see that as a Wii game. I could not, however, see this as one:

What IS that on his nose?! Creepy. So, I guess I'll leave you with the song from the Wii Fit commercial:

I think I'll do yoga tonight...