Week 1, Day 4

Today I was able to get my workout in early. My wife took our son out for awhile so that gave me the time I needed to work out uninterrupted. It appears as though these workouts are going to have to take place after our son goes to bed at night, which is not my favored time of the day to do a work out, but we have to work with what we have available. i will continue to play with doing the workout with him around, but typical of a bright young 21 month old, he wants to be in the middle of whatever daddy is doing, which does not help when you are trying to move around and get exercise in.

Mostly Aerobics today, Yesterday I unlocked Wii Island for the running activity. The running activity has to be my least favorite of the aerobic exercises so far, because it is actually HARD. I'm not a jogger, and certainly not a running in place jogger. This is where the motivation factor comes in. If I was sitting on my couch without the Wii and thought, I really ought to do some exercising. The last thing I would do is jump up and start running in place. And if I DID get up and start running in place, I would stop LONG before the end of the Wii Island course. That made up 13 minutes of my work out today in one activity. I'm going to continue to use it, and just sweat it out. That's what this is all about anyhow right?

Another activity that unlocked today was a Balance Game: Zen Balance. Seems a simple enough concept, sit on the balance board, cross your legs, and hold still. Easy enough right? Wrong. First of all I am a big guy, so trying to get my legs crossed on the balance board is impossible (I gave that up after three tries and crossed my legs in front of the balance board), secondly, once you get into position you can't move... at all. so you are sitting there trying to hold a position, which was easy enough for about a minute. Then my abs started to tense. Really? that is kind of odd, but maybe that is what the activity is SUPPOSED to do. It was a nice cool down from the run, but it was still kinda work.

I'm still digging the motivation factor of the Wii Fit. It has got me up doing stuff. I wake up sore but I still want to get on the board and keep exercising. And today we got some good news in the results! Finally!

Week 1, Day 4 Body Test Results
BMI: 31.50
Weight: 237.7
Wii Age: 40
Activity Time for today: 56 minutes

That is a loss of 0.8 pounds from Day 1, and almost 2.5 pounds from yesterday. Not sure what the difference between yesterday and today was, but we'll see if we can keep this trend going downward now that we're on the right track!

Stay tuned!