Jan 25 2009
The Right Kind of Motivation (HASAY Update)
I’m still giving away some stuff …check it out if you’re just stumbling in..or if you just enjoy making an entrance.
If you don’t know what HASAY is, get informed and meet the players.
The past several weeks have been kind of a bust for me on the exercise front. I lacked momentum. I lacked energy. I lacked drive.
The long term goals of my fitness endeavor were carelessly shrugged in favor of loafing and slacking, munching and snacking. Too bad. So sad.
Enter the Wii Fit.
I hopped on for the first time on Tuesday after a routine day of child rearing (read feeding, diapering, chasing and chauffeuring). The kids were elbow deep in homework when I first stepped on the balance board in my socked feet and gave it a whirl. I spent near to an hour on that thing, testing the features, and getting judged by my non-lip moving fitness trainer. In addition to my fitness age being painfully advanced, I also learned I had the reflexes of a cat (in the late stages of rigor mortis) and the balance of a drunken sailor.
Despite all this, playing was fun. Even the kids wanted in on the action.
And the more I’ve played, the more I want to play. Not because I’ve seen a dramatic change in my resting heart rate or because I’ve miraculously developed better muscle tone in three days, but because the more I play, the more silly aerobic exercises I unlock, or the more yoga poses I get to master, or the more strength moves I’m introduced to. All the payoff is virtual, it seems ridiculous saying it out loud. “Excuse me, I’ve got to go exercise with my television so I can unlock the rhythm boxing.” Or, “I’m up to ten minutes on Super Hula Hoop, go Mii.”
And despite feeling like I’m cheating by not not giving myself a Jillian Michaels induced coronary, my muscles still feel sore the next day. So something must be working, right? And as a bonus, a pound of me melted away.
My Wii Fit was very impressed with my progress.
