This may completely not apply to you, but I wish someone had warned me, so... the WiiFit ended up being really, really disappointing for me. The most fun/least cardio exercises (which I thought were a reasonable starting point for someone coming from no exercise program at all) are the yoga and the balance games, and I ended up not being able to do them, even though I'd taken yoga classes in the past.
Those exercises demand that you make tiny balance adjustments with your toes. I've got a host of problems with my feet (flat feet, plantar fascitis) and the little movements required give me toe cramps. Even the exercises that didn't... well, standing on a hard plastic board for any length of time made my feet ache all over, where standing on carpet or on a yoga mat didn't. I've heard there are gel pads or somesuch that you can buy to cover the board, but I never looked into it because of the toe cramp problem.
Anyway, unless you're sure you'd have no problems with it I'd really recommend trying out a friend's WiiFit before deciding whether you want to buy one. It's not just a matter of willpower to use it, but the physical limitations of the equipment itself.
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Date: 2009-08-13 07:10 pm (UTC)Those exercises demand that you make tiny balance adjustments with your toes. I've got a host of problems with my feet (flat feet, plantar fascitis) and the little movements required give me toe cramps. Even the exercises that didn't... well, standing on a hard plastic board for any length of time made my feet ache all over, where standing on carpet or on a yoga mat didn't. I've heard there are gel pads or somesuch that you can buy to cover the board, but I never looked into it because of the toe cramp problem.
Anyway, unless you're sure you'd have no problems with it I'd really recommend trying out a friend's WiiFit before deciding whether you want to buy one. It's not just a matter of willpower to use it, but the physical limitations of the equipment itself.