The First Few Days

So I started a few days before I started the blog and I have to admit I'm feeling a bit better than I was before I started. I've really only done a few workouts but it feels good to be active again and oddly enough doing the exercises on the Wii is entertaining!

On the EA Sports Active I'm doing the 30 day workout challenge. You do 2 days on and 1 day off. It has a set of predetermined exercises that you must complete. Seems to average about 20-30 minutes on it. You're doing everything from playing tennis, doing lunges, arm raises, squats, running/walking to basically anything you can think of. It does really work you as I can truly feel it in my legs and butt when I'm done.

I did one workout on Thursday with the EA Sports Active. I didn't do the Wii fit as my knees were screaming at me from copious amounts of lunges and squats. According to the system I did 22 minutes of exercise and burned 184 calories. Not too bad for a start.

I skipped Friday cause I was a lazy ass and did EA again Saturday. I did 26 minutes with it and burned 172 calories. Seems the calories burnt depend on the exercises they give you. There was a TON of running on this day and that's something my knees hate with a passion, not to mention my asthma. It was harder but I survived.

Today I did the EA again. I did 19 minutes and burned 112 calories. It was an easy day on it. Only had to run once, although those bastard lunges came back about 3 times. A lot of arm work which was a nice change. Got to do their version of step aerobics. Not bad but the wii fit has them beat on that. I couldn't understand what to do for half of it so I just kinda stepped on and off. Whoops.

Then I moved to the wii fit plus. I did the basic step aerobics and then the free step. I LOVE the free step! What a fabulous feature! Too bad they didn't have that in the original Wii Fit, at least not that I "unlocked". Free step is basically you can switch the tv from the input it's on for the wii to the regular channels and watch tv while the remote tells you when to step on and off the board. Yes the remote. It actually counts for you 1,2,3,4 so you can hear it while you watch Paula Deen bake something with 4 pounds of butter and a 1/2 pound of sugar.

It's great! I barely noticed I was doing it until the end of my 10 minutes and I could really feel the burn in my butt and legs. I can see myself going downstairs to do that while I watch Law & Order or something.

Unlike our elliptical which I found watching tv with tedious because I kept looking down at the counter to figure out when I was going to be allowed to step off the damned contraption... the basic step on the wii was fun and I really didn't feel bored doing it.

So I supposedly burned 50 calories with the Wii Fit doing the aerobics today. Although I have to admit I'm more than a bit skeptical because the stupid thing said I gained 13kg(28lbs!) from Christmas Day to today. If I somehow gained almost 30lbs in 3 weeks I think I'd notice! So I may take the Wii Fit's calorie count/weight/BMI with a grain of salt.

So there's the first 3 days. I'm on a "rest" day from EA tomorrow so I'll be doing a 1/2 hour of kettlenetics.

Here's hoping this all pays off. I'm tired of being the Plump Princess!