Odd one in my case. My profile units express that I want metric, but my Weight graph is showing pounds! It still gives my goal weight and such in metric however.
I lost my 'goal' as well by the way.

Yeah it is Rachael, its early days but for people with an open mind and looking to try something different, it has an appeal, mainly because its just great fun and time flies!



The hardcore will take a lot longer to swing around as bootcamp and Rah Rah sounds is all they want to hear. Listening to the cute cooing noises of the Wii certainly isnt hardcore lol :P



I'm a mech engineer / Electrical technician myself, but no triathlete best of luck with your competitions.

My wife uses a Reebok board with a rubber top, the wii is more stable on this than the carpet to be honest.



Another few ideas:

When doing the jogging exercise, use a skipping rope. As you jump to skip it activates the remote as if you were taking a step, works the same way and the fitness factor is much higher.

Also with jogging, use a small 'stepper', again the up, down action will activate the remote.

If you have a treadmill, well you can probably guess the rest



Do the Hoola Hoop exercise and actually use 'real' hoops at the same time, one will do of course, but use more as you get better, great for the hips



I use the Wii as part of my Exergaming Finland Fitness company, so I have a vast array of methods to increase the difficulty factors in most Wii sports/fitness games - www.exergamingfinland.com

Use a mini-trampoline while jogging, has the same effect but much more comfortable, plus you can jump up and down with both feet at the same time to achieve the same affect.



Put the wii fit board onto a Reebok like step platform, of course make sure it is wide enough and secure and flat. Stepping up that extra distance is a whole new experience.



Both the above methods will reignite your fat loss and raise your heart rate dramatically

We are a Fitness start up company based in Helsinki, but we have delusions of grandeur and would love to 'take over the world' I'm sure if we were American we would have Franchised ourselves by now, but being a control freak we want to keep our cards close to our chest and service our local area for the time being.



Our methodology is an evolution of Exergaming, which sounds rather odd as Exergaming is in its infancy, but things are moving fast and we are moving with the lead pack - we would like to say we are 'leading' the pack, but that would be boasting, and we can't have that...cough



Our Team of four Personal Instructors, the EXG Men, deliver a mobile fitness service to our clients. We blend exercise, sport (simulated and real) and gaming. On top of that we specialise in customised Meal Plans and monitor our clients with state of the art Internet and Offline software.



Our Assessment and Monitoring software includes Suunto (Real Time) Training Manager, Traineo and Bodytracker. Our Client creation and management software is CrossTrainer 6 (Designed by the Canadian Wrestling Federation) and our own customised templates for Workout and Meal Plans. We use SKYPE, MSN and our own EXERGAMING FINLAND Forum and Chatroom for clients to be able to contact us easily and quickly.



Our workout software includes Wii Sport, Wii Fit (soon), Kinetic Combat, Yourself Fitness, Tekken 5 etc.



We have merged technologies, fitness and sport to produce a truly innovative package. By combining the the Wii, PS2, Bodypad, Eyetoy, Reebok Core Board, Gymstick, Fitness Boxing (Real and Virtual), Wrestling (real), PNF stretching and more 'orthodox' training, we keep our clients fit and having a LOT of fun, what we call 'Serious Fun'.



So plug in your Wii, wind up your HRM watch and prepare to breath hard while smiling at the same time, it can be done

I just wrote a lengthy reply which was promptly lost when I posted the message â€" Hell I hate that â€" but not more than dubiously qualified trainers 



I thought I’d jump into the thread after reading Josephine’s comment about the NSCA above and Jennie’s remark about ‘accountability’.



I should say from the outset that I’m a coach. I’m Australian but I did my training and certification with the NSCA (American based). The NSCA is affiliated with the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association (ASCA) and the Australian Coaching Council (ACC)….phew! I’m a Level 2 NSCA Coach, horrible title, I apologise for the acronyms 



All these above organizations take Sports science and its practical methodologies VERY seriously. I feel fortunate to have been trained by a previous NSCA coach of the Dallas Cowboys (Ashley Jones) also, Gino Fratangelo â€" Australian Commonwealth games Gold medalist in Weight-lifting etc. The immense resources, knowledge and expertise passed on by the above individuals and organizations is very humbling, but at the same time, very empowering.



I’m not a professional coach, far from it. I spent 2 years achieving the above qualification because of a sincere passion for hardcore training (principally cross-training between weightlifting and body-building). I was dissollusioned, like many of you, with current training doctrines (fuelled by popular training magazines) and took the step to educate myself as best I could. I completed my level 2 training some years ago.



I have been fortunate to train with National and International level athletes in Australia from sports as diverse as Rowing, Field Hockey and Weightlifing. My personal area of coaching expertise is: Amateur, competitive (Annual or Bi-annual), non-drug using, genetically ‘challenged’ â€" normal, passionate athletes and weekend warriors. That would include many of you here I believe!?



There is a difference between an NSCA coach however and a Fitness Instructor. I predominatly work with individuals or teams to improve their sports conditioning, and thus their sports performance, at a non-professional level. Perhaps that’s being pedantic, but I feel it’s important.



I write extensive and detailed yearly plans that are broken down into four ‘macro’ cycles (from a non-competitive phase through to maintenance/rehab phase). These plans are further reduced to ‘micro’ or daily cycles. The plans are adjusted for non-competitive athletes. I spend many hours going over the exact requirements of my clients. This information is then assembly in a very comprehensive report outlining how this will be achieved and when. This comes back the ‘accountability’ that Jennie mentioned in the above post. I am utterly accountable and its in writing!

This really requires a lot of soul searching and ‘honest talk’ from both the client and myself. Realistic aims must be set and workable agendas planned, because we are ‘real’ people with real lives and families.



I espouse a fundamental approach to training. When it comes to weight-training, I use several methodologies, much of it derived from personal experience, NSCA instruction and Hardcore underground practices like ‘Hardgainer’ by Stuart McRobert - http://www.hardgainer.com/ I ignore popular training culture and publications other than to wipe my arse with them â€" I still hold a lot of venom toward these gutter publications â€" I hope Weider is reading this!



There are passionate, good people out there who really care about your success. Being qualified should guarantee you some degree of safety, in that you should avoid injury under instruction â€" should! Having access to and having studied sports science enthusiastically and semi-professionally, allows me to ‘filter’ what is most workable for most hardcore ‘real’ gym trainers. Having access to incredibly well funded organizations like the NSCA, is fantastic, as they are setting the standard in sports science research.



At the end of the day, it comes down to setting aims that are achievable and will support further success. This needs planning, at least to some degree. Once a suitable plan is derived, motivation will follow naturally as a good plan sets gettable milestones at regular intervals â€" success = continued motivation.



For many people, male or female, I use a Short Duration Progressive Weights program. Based on compound moves with the weight incrementing (slowly) over a 8 â€" 12 week period. Gains of 15 â€" 20% in strength along with suitable rest, recovery and diet will see commensurate gains in muscle mass. It isn’t rocket science, but I believe rocket science is better understood! If you get stronger, eat and rest well, you’ll get bigger. During programs I test and measure 3rm levels, body dimensions, fat levels, BMI and return BMR after intense exercise. You can see and measure your progress, that again makes me accountable.



It is incredibly satisfying to see your strength rising. Its tangible ‘real’ and constant, its not something that happens in 2 months from now, it happens regularly through your planned cycle and what’s more, its predictable. All in all, that becomes fantastically motivational, assuming, in this case, muscle conditioning or muscle gain is your aim.



Look for a trainer/coach that is qualified (currently), is accountable and can prove it. Look for one that is credible, and the best way to check that is to ask his/her previous clients. Look for one that knows how ‘genetically normal’ people function and recover. Ask them if they make a plan and ask to see examples â€" a single A4 page is not a program! It’s your money make them earn it.



I apologize for my waffling, I do promise you my training is much shorter and more efficient. I guess I should preach what I practice .



Brett.

Your artificially 'loading' your body, creating a greater stimulus for you body to react. If this is high intensity (short duration), then that 'may' mean increased muscle mass, if it's over a longer period of time, around 45 min, that will increase muscle endurance and be more beneficial for fat burning. It simply means, working harder and burning more calories, and thats what counts here right .

I use them as well, and they work 'very well'. I use them on both wrists and ankles with the most weight on the 'non-playing' limbs, by that I mean: (I'm right handed) - I use 2 kilos on my right wrist, 3.5 kilos on my left. Both ankles have 3.5 kilos as well. I use the weights mainly in Tennis, but of course you can use them in any of the 'Sport' programs. One tip is that you use at least one 'belt style' or 'velcro style' weight on each wrist, closest to your hand. This stops the 'donut style' wrist weights I use, to raise the overall weight, from flying off over my hand when 'swinging at the ball'. I cant remember the price for any of them as Ive had them for some years now.



The reason I use heavier weights on the non-active limbs, is to counterbalance my playing arm. They help load my whole body and give me a harder workout.



Hope that wasnt to confusing, main thing is, they do work. Increase the weights slowly so as not to cause any 'significant' muscle soreness. best of luck.

Fascintating stuff Dave! Seems to be a very real competitor for the Wii. I love the idea of the legs sensors along with hand/finger controls and arm sensors. It would certainly activate every major muscle group to a greater or lesser degree.

What's the reliability like and is there a very 'real' sense of using your limbs rather than a joypad. Is there any time delay between your movement and the on-screen characters reactions? I assume that its real strength lies in action/combat style games?

Sorry bout all the questions, but you have certainly tweaked my interests in yet another way to 'get active' through console games.



FYI: I just recently traded my xbox in to get a Playstation 2 / Eyetoy combo. The reason for the trade was to utilise the Eyetoy's Kinetic combat game. I thought between the Wii and the Playstation/Eyetoy combo, Id have the best of what Console/Fitness has to offer. With the Bodypad, there may well be a third option as well!!........I'm starting to salivate.

Okay, an amendment to my above message. The BMI log does NOT in fact save data any longer than any other log file, it just seems that way as I update BMI everyday. The max time span for any personal log file seems to be 2 weeks, any data before that is lost! This is extremely disappointing as I created log files of my body dimensions, waist, chest etc and all the original information is now lost.

Since I became aware of this system fault, I have created my own excel sheet. This makes it very hard now to recommend this site whole-heartedly as nobody wants to lose data related to their fitness/weight/weightloss progression.....please fix this issue asap!

Yes same here, I've created a large number of customised logs beginning from May. The data from only the last few days to a week or so shows up, everything before that is lost.

The existing logs, such as BMI work fine by the way, in fact this is the only log file saving data continuously and reliably.