My Fat Ass Review - My Fitness Coach for Wii

Thought I might do a review of the My Fitness Coach by Ubisoft for the Wii...You can find it at leading retailers - like Best Buy and Target and on-line at places like Amazon for about $20.

I have been using it about 3-4x's per week and I really like it alot - for $20 I will say I have gotten my money's worth...

To begin you set up your profile - which includes you measuring various parts of your body (not so pretty) and entering your weight, doing exercises to determine your resting and active heart rate and checking your flexibility.

From there it asks what your goal is...be it strength, toning, flexibility or mine (obviously) Weight Loss...and allows you to set up a workout scheduale for the week

You have the opportunity to imput what extra equipment you may have that the program can incorporate into the workouts - Yoga Ball, Hand Weights, Step and Heart Monitor.


I did get a yoga ball, a set of 3 lb hand weights and a step (got that for a trade for some cards from a friend of mine) - so I will say I have spent an additional $20 or so $$.

Personally, I think you definately need a step - I love the exercises they do that encorporates the step...before I got my real one I was using the Wii balance board - but the real one is higher and I don't have to worry about stepping to hard on the real one vs the Wii Balance Board. Most every workout I have done has encorporated exercises using the step - obviously if you don't have a step you won't be doing those exercises...

Yoga ball don't really NEED.... BTW I bought the cheapest one they had at Target - about $10 works great - so far my fat ass hasn't popped it - but it is nice to have - I have enjoyed the exercises that have encorporated the ball but there have only been a few so IMO it is not as vital as the Step...

Handweights are nice to have but like the yoga ball you don't really NEED them...but you can pick up a set of 3lb or 5 lb ones for under $10... I will actually use them even when the program doesn't have you using them...sometimes they will have a "plie with row" - I grab those weights and row away.

For the workouts you get to choose your music and location - if you stick to your workout schedule the more workouts you do the more locations and music you unlock...but be forwarned...the first unlock comes at 3 days...so you do the 3 days you have scheduled and you unlock a place and music - the second comes at 7 days...BUT if you miss a schedualed workout you go back to square one...I did 6 schedualed workouts and missed the 7th one and now I have to start all over working to unlock the next location/music...but I have gotten wise to the program and have been "adjusting" my workout scheduale - for example I had it set to 15 minutes for Mon, Tues, Wed and Thursday...but I have something on Thursday evening so last night I went in and "adjusted" my schedule and took out Thursday...I want to unlock that next location/music - dammit

The workouts are great and have a nice variety to them - you are led by Mia - who is a little too perky for my taste...although she does through some sarcasm in there from time to time and I like that in a person (real or not...) - It is not like a DVD or a tape where you are doing the same workout over and over again. I have tried DVD's before and after 3-4 times I am just plain bored...

It does work out your whole body for the most part...I have aching leg muscles to prove it...

There are a few things I can't do - I have bad ankles so i can't have a lot of sudden impact so things like jogging are out for me - I just march in place instead of jogging (something that has one foot on the floor)...and other things....well I am just not coordinated enough to do - like I can skip up...but skipping back would probably land me in the ER...so I just hustle up and back...

I do different arm movements sometimes - pushups...no can do - so I do something different while Mia does her thing - but I keep moving...I do feel muscles where I haven't before and it does get my heart rate up -

There are a few different things you can do
Yoga (different yoga poses)
Cardio (mainly moving around with some spot toning towards the end of the session)
Upper Body (focuses on your arms and back)
Lower Body (legs)
Core (mid section...lots of different crunches usually)
Flexibility (like Cardio with more stretching/yoga involved)

My goal is 4 x's per week - with one day of Cardio, one upper, one lower and one core...although last time I did core they had me doing crunches while on the ball...OWWW my abs the next day I could feel them everytime I moved...

But even when you choose say Upper - like I did last night - I was still doing lots of squats and lunges in the exercises so my legs got a workout too - along with like a bajjion bicep curls.

The program will give you rest periods and give you an opportunity to let the program know if you find the sections easy, hard or just right and will adjust the program for you...so be prepared that for a 30 minute session - it will actually take 35-36 minutes to get all the way through it.

You can set your time - in 15 minute increments - 15, 30, 45 etc... i usually do 30 minutes because that is all I have time for during the week - I usually do it after dinner and it carries me through the night...but you can do things back to back - say 15 minutes on Upper and then do a 15 minute Lower.

If you are advanced in your workouts and are one of those people who belong to an actual gym and can wear spandex without embarrassment this probably isn't the program for you - but if you have limited time on your hands and want to do some basic workouts that will get you moving without being in a room full of people and mirrors then the My Fitness Coach might be just what you are looking for...

Need a young lad with good hands...

get yer mind out of the gutter...

I have a problem - the problem is that I am stuck...

Stuck in what you say - a funk...no - the mud...no - a rut....no

I am freakin stuck on Raving Rabbid -


I mean it was bad enough when I couldn't drown the little suckers with carrot juice fast enough.


Heck that took me a good 75 minutes to finally drown the suckers to move on...

and don't even get me started about trying to slam the doors - that one was well over the 2 hour mark...stupid bunnies



But riding the stupid warthogs are doing me in - I spent an HOUR last night trying to ride them - Oh I can ride but just not fast enough - you have to do it in 1:45 - the lowest I got was just under the 2 minute mark... and this was not the first time I have tried...no more like the 4th or 5th time...



and the thing is I can't move on until I ride the stupid warthogs...so I am destined to repeated the same games in a Groundhog Day motion again and again (although the level I am stuck on I get to beat the stuffing out of a Rabbid with a hammer...gets the frustrations out) until one day I either ride the stupid warthog within the time or I get so frustrated the Raving Rabbid gets run over multiple times...

At this point I am not above cheating...be it finding some cheat codes on-line or paying some young lad with nimble fingers to ride my warthog :)

let my mistake help you...

if perhaps you have a new cell phone - and let's just say you experiment with some different rings tones...and let's just go a little further and say you have choosen "Baby got Back" as your new ring tone...

If you are sitting in church doing a reconciliation (you Catholics will know what I'm talking about) project it is best and actually wise to either change your ring tone - or best yet - mute the sucker...

Nothing like a moment of silent prayer interrupted by "I like big butts and I can not lie..."

I sooooooo wanted to say - "well maybe God likes a little junk in the trunk..." but I wisely bit my lip

Caught up in the FACEBOOK web...

So a number of weeks ago I jumped on the Facebook bandwagon...it has been great to find out what people have been up to since high school and college. Some things have been very surprising to learn.

The thing is someone (Scott or Shar I can't think who started it) started putting up old pictures from college...and it spured many of us on to post our own old pictures and with it came back lots and lots of memories - especially fun when you don't even remember the situation.

So I have put up some of my own old pictures and went looking the other night for more and learned two things

• The digital revolution is a wonderful thing...I have a ton of pictures where it is too dark or too blurry or someone turned at the wrong moment - or best yet pictures of the same thing taken multiple times in order to get the picture "right". Although looking back at some of the times I had in college I am thinking while gladd for the digital revolution...very glad it wasn't around during my college days...by the time things got too freaky or wacked I was usually out of film...

• Really what the hell was up with my style...some pictures from 15 years ago I look great (and those are definately the ones I am posting to FB) - but some pictures...some pictures it looks like a band of New Jersians held me down and styled my hair while the Before pictures from "What Not to Wear" threw up on my body...big hair and bad clothes...that was my 1990's

i'mmmmmmmmm BACK!!!!!

yes it is me....arisen from the pile of sawdust and scraps that the renovation has provided and slowly things are coming together.

The last little bit of the kitchen renovation is almost done...just 3 more things need to be done

• Panel addition on the end of one of the cabinets
• cutlary drawer installed (cabinet didn't arrive with it as ordered)
• fix the kitchen faucet

That last one - fix the kitchen faucet - well this is our 2nd faucet we have - the first one didn't work - well it worked but for some reason you could only get either hot or cold water out of it - depending on which way you switched the hoses - after my contractor placed calls to a plumbing place, a plumber and to Koehler directly the outcome was we got a bum faucet and to take it back to where we bought it - so we did and I ordered a Mac-Daddy Delta faucet from on-line...

Got it - installed it - hot water, cold water, warm water....that's all good...what is bad is that it has no pressure...the water dribbles out - so my contractor is suppose to bring over a master plumber to take a look at it...this doens't surprise me - as we have also already had 2 visits from the from the GE repairman for our brand new fridge...stupid icemaker....and the fancy instahot I wanted - damn tank didn't fit under my sink - so we had to go to the basic shiny chrome and black plastic model...

one day....one day everything will be in proper working order - but I must admit the renovation is spectacular and I look forward to using my new kitchen and my new 3 seasons room for YEARS to come...

Want to take a peek - then just click HERE

still alive...

some of you have my e-mail address and for the second time in a week I received an e-mail asking if I am alive...

I am - just buried under the house renovations - yeah...that promise to never paint again...I spent 3 hours last night painting my laundry room a color called Junebug...wrong name for the paint it should really be "1986 Neon Green Hue # 3" - oh well at least I will be able to see what I am doing by the glow of the walls

Renovations are going along great - I should have some pictures posted by the end of the week.

Work training....let's just say if you ever have any desire to learn about the Radial tire and how it came to be - ask me and prepare to be bored....

oh and one of my friends sent me a link to join Facebook - so I did...bad bad bad decision...another thing to waste time on....

gotta go and read more about tires...joy

Bad Blogger...bad bad blogger....

Yeah I know - life is hectic and busy and full of crap...even more so when you are renovating...

When you say to yourself while in the middle of a renovation...

"Self you could save a few bucks if you do this project yourself"

DON'T LISTEN...seriously just don't....

So this past holiday weekend - DH and I decided to tackle the downstairs guest bathroom...really shouldn't have been so hard - new paint, a new sink and a new faucet...yeah well....

The room did get painted - along with lots of swear words tumbling from my mouth...and the sentence to TC "whatever we are paying the painters to paint upstairs is worth every single penny...I am NEVER painting again"

My thought was to put molding around the top...so we went to Lowes and picked it out...and well now I need to find a cool, funky border because cutting angles just ain't TC's thing....

And moving onto the sink...we got it sort of put together...well we got the faucet on the new pedastal sink...the sink however is still in two pieces in the garage...I have a distinct feeling that we will be having our contractor install the sink as orginally planned...

Painters are coming next week to paint our upstairs - the master bedroom, Rec Room and upstairs hallway...got all my craft crap out of my bedroom and actually sold my desk...now to start moving all the crap in the Rec Room...we have to have everything away from the walls - which wouldn't be such a bad thing if half the walls weren't covered by heavy bookcases filled with books, knick, knacks and other assorted junk...

Slowly but surely the renovation is moving along...

We have been taking some pictures - hope to post some soon...

On a sad note - my girls started SECOND grade this morning...seriously SECOND grade - they are growing up way way way to fast for me.....{sniff, sniff}