Second day of exercising with the Nintendo Wii and all is going well. I feel good, I definitely work up a sweat and its just plain fun. So far I’m just sticking with Wii Sports because it gets me moving and I’m still having a good time with it.
I hope to have a little bit of a routine down in the next couple of days which I’ll share. I find the some of the Wii Sports games are great for exercising (Tennis, Baseball) and some are just lousy (Golf and Bowling to a certain extent). The most “active” sport of them all should be Boxing.
See that Mii throwing the solid punch? That’s not me.
But I just can’t get it to… you know… work.
With baseball and tennis I move my hands naturally and almost magically everything on the screen syncs up perfectly. When I swing the remote my Mii swings the bat. That’s the way it’s supposed to work.
For some reason, though, I just can’t get boxing to mimic my actions. I’ll pump my arm in and out four times and my boxer might punch once. I’ll try to punch high and my boxer will just dance around. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what. Sometimes I can get into patterns where a certain punch will work and I’ll just repeat that ad nauseum until I’ve beated up all the punching bags or Mii boxers or whatever I’m wildly flailing at.
Most of the time, however, my Mii Boxer looks like a Weeble having an epileptic fit.
The Wii Fitness test picks three training session types at random and runs you through the paces. Today I unfortunately pulled a boxing session and spent the entire 60 seconds accidentally beating my boxing coach into a bloody pulp. I think I hit his glove twice. My Wii Fitness Age today was 59.
Tomorrow I hope to compile some thoughts about using wrist weights with Wii Sports.
One Response to “Wii Exercise Experiment – Day 2 – I Just Don’t Get Wii Sports Boxing”
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Salvo Daze says:
Hey, I know very well what you mean about wii boxing being irresponsive and it’s really irritating since it’s supposed to be the best choice for exercise on the wii yet. I try to do a 1 hour run on wii sports every evening going between tennis (I pick a fictional mii I made – say, Buffy – and play with her until she has about 700-1000 exp points), bowling (I do the training mode where the number of pins keep increasing or just play a regular game of bowling) and boxing (punch the bag training program seemed like a better workout to me, so I’m pretty much sticking to that). Hope these help you a little. Good going, keep it up.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:41 am