Wii Fit, Day Seven

For once, I thought I'd actually write up what I had done on the day that I had done it.

Today is a momentous day (sort of)-- I finally managed to get my BMI below 25, now down to 24.93, and was rewarded with a thumbs up from my Mii.  Yay!  I've unlocked all but the last strength and aerobic exercise, and now just have to unlock the longer-running exercises (how many jackknifes can one do?  I'm up to 30 reps, but maybe it goes to 100?).  My Wii Fit Age is now 41, I think, up from the 36 I had yesterday when so bloated with tasty naan.  I wonder whether that age thing has any bearing on reality...

I went for arms and abs today.  A brief Yogic warmup (breathing, half moon, sun salutation, chair, bridge), and then on to strength exercises (6 pushups/side planks, 6 torso twists, 30 jackknifes, back to 10 pushups/side planks, 30 more jackknifes, 20 triceps with a five pound weight).  My arms feel like noodles.

And then aerobics, doing the boxing game twice.  I really like the boxing game; the final ten seconds are very satisfying-- breaking 300 on the second time around was pretty excellent, even if the gruff coach guy told me I was holding back.  I found that to really get the punches going, gotta put more acceleration, and a longer range.  Finally, I cooled down with a 1x advanced step routine.  All in all, it felt pretty good.

Here's the thing.  I'm thinking that my earlier complaints about the soccer game and so forth don't really hold water.  Now that I've gotten a much better grasp of what I need to do there, I'll get pretty good scores, and a high of 144.  It's true that I shouldn't be moving my head much, but still, I can accomplish a lot by balance shifting, and that's what shows up on the screen.  Melodie's pointed out to me that, since I'm much taller than she is, when I try to balance, it seems like the Wii Fit is interpreting my balancing movements as being far more oscillatory than hers.  I'd assume that the board is calibrated (ie, if someone's 6'3", then when their head moves, the radius of that movement with respect to the ground is longer than if someone who's 5'9" moves), but assumptions make an ass out of you and umption.  Maybe that's why I can get away with just balance shifts in the soccer game, rather than moving my head, like I'm 'supposed to'-- the board isn't calibrated for the movements of a larger person.  Who knows?

Another game I've been playing: Death Jr.  This game is purely awesome, and reminds me that there are just straight up fun games out there to play.  Some of the jumping puzzles are frustrating, though-- I just finished the level which ends with Experiment #51 (or whatever it's called), and those puzzles represented the first frustrating parts of the game.  Earlier, if I died, I could see that I was being retarded; but these times, I just felt frustrated, because there was some wacky timing thing I had to get down to get across (it's the room with the tank, for those of you who've played it).  I wonder how it'd stack up, as a game, when you're playing with someone who isn't a gamer, and might not be keen on that kind of frustration?

In other news-- about to finish up the quarter.  Just have to finish a final Biomedical Physics lab, and take a test in... another class I won't write about yet, and then I'm done!  Off to work at iCRCo for the summer, where I hope that my image processing knowledge can be put to good use.  Of course, such things remain unpublishable until they are published-- but general knowledge will be revealed, if I have any.