Nintendo Wii Fit Bundle - A First Impression Review

Well, I've finally decided to get it. A few days ago, I finally made the difficult decision of purchasing the Nintendo Wii Fit Bundle. Alright I admit it, it's not really that difficult because I got it at a real bargain. When I received the package in the mail, I couldn't contain my excitement. After all, the Nintendo Wii Fit is the latest innovative games and workout machine out in the market today!

What's In The Nintendo Wii Fit Bundle?

As I unpack my Nintendo Wii Fit package anxiously, I notice that there are quite a number of items included. There's the Nintendo Wii game console (which I've also bought in addition to the bundle), the Wii Fit Balance Board and a peripheral of accessories such as the console stand, remote for the games console, nunchuck, AV adapter & cables. Included with the balance board is a disc of software which contains activities or exercises such as the yoga, body balance, muscle building and aerobic exercises and routines. My Wii game console also came with 5 Wii Sports games for Tennis, Bowling, Baseball, Golf and Boxing.

Now, you'll need the Wii game console before you can make use of Wii Fit system. When I was first planning my purchase, I noticed that there were many packages selling at rock bottom prices all over the web. But beware, most of them don't include the Wii game console! You're just paying for the bundle. In the end, you may end up paying more if you buy them separately. If you don't have the Wii game console, the more economic choice will be the Wii Fit full system as retailers tend to package the bundle with it at a more attractive price.

My Workout Experience On the Nintendo Wii Fit

After I setup the Wii Fit system, I started working out on it with a heart rate monitor strapped on my wrist. It took a while for me to get used to the menu navigation though frankly, they're pretty user friendly. It may take some time off the workout time but I'm sure that can be minimize once I get more familiar with the system.

What I've noticed was, some of the activities didn't gave me as good a workout as I expected. The soccer heading game was a disappointment and didn't even raise my heart rate above the minimum. And when I compared my statistics across activities such as the Yoga, Strength Training, Aerobic and Balance, the aerobic section stood out.

My favourite by far was the Hula Hoop game. As I tried to balance myself, keeping all the hoops in the air while catching some more, my heart beat was raised to 172bpm. Not only was it a good workout, it was pretty fun and enjoyable.

Perhaps you may be asking "So, do you think the Nintendo Wii Fit is a good way to lose weight?". Personally I don't think the Wii Fit can really help to lose much weight given the nature of the activities involved. Maybe a pound or two a week. But I'm sure they'll be quite effective in another department of your life.

Lifestyle and fun.

Marlene Gardner is a freelance writer. If you're looking to pick up a Wii Fit Bundle, check out this Nintendo Wii Fit specialty store.

Modded my first Wii

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So yesterday my gf picked up a Wii just out of the blue lol while at the mall. Anyways we picked up a 2gb kingston SD card and brought it home.

I took a read through [Only Registered Members May View Links| Click here to register]

Modded the Wii fine, the hardest part for me was getting the cursors to move as i couldnt understand some of the terminology.

So then today I loaded up the USB Loader to run games of a Hard drive as she tends to scratch discs really easy. Done and simple. Only issue she had is i tried putting in a burned game and it said Disc Read Error 1167..

Now my question is, I disabled the Auto Online Updates like stated in the tutorial up there I read. But my can the Wii go online at all now? She's currently on 4.1U.

I also disabled Wii Connect24.. But im just not quite sure what the system can and cant do now due to the mod. Is there even any point to updating to 4.3?

I followed that tutorial step by step and did what it said. backed up Nand and what not.

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If you mean play games online, you should be fine.
As fat as updating, there's no need to update past 4.1. 4.2 and 4.3 were only released to block homebrew. No point in updating.

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Originally Posted by us3rname [Only Registered Members May View Links| Click here to register] If you mean play games online, you should be fine.
As fat as updating, there's no need to update past 4.1. 4.2 and 4.3 were only released to block homebrew. No point in updating.Alright cool! Yah I blocked these "both an online update and game disc updates".

Now so shes fine with enabling the Wii Connect24 and what not? Just not perform any System Updates? Like i know when i tried accessing the News Channel it said something about not having an update.

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Since you have the block updates enabled, you should be alright to do so. However, it's just not usually recommended to do so after you modded it.
but if you feel like somebody won't accidentally update it, I suppose you will be fine.

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the wii runs on ios's and has a system menu
updates have updated or new ios's and system menu versions (the newer ones only try to block homebrew)
if you insert a game and it asks for an update, it'll wipe out your softmod (at least most of it), that's why blocking updates is important

in short, updates only add more features (sometimes) and block homebrew

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Originally Posted by us3rname [Only Registered Members May View Links| Click here to register] the wii runs on ios's and has a system menu
updates have updated or new ios's and system menu versions (the newer ones only try to block homebrew)
if you insert a game and it asks for an update, it'll wipe out your softmod (at least most of it), that's why blocking updates is important

in short, updates only add more features (sometimes) and block homebrew

Perfect makes sense! So im guessing does that mean you technically can't play new games that try and push updates through a disc? Sort of like certain Xbox360 games..

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Originally Posted by esadb [Only Registered Members May View Links| Click here to register] Perfect makes sense! So im guessing does that mean you technically can't play new games that try and push updates through a disc? Sort of like certain Xbox360 games..with priiloader blocking updates, you insert the game disc, launch and black screen...
you don't have the ios that the game runs on. All you need to do is install that ios and there you go

if you have the game on a hard drive, then the game runs under a cIOS, so if a black screen there, the game probably needs to run under a specific cIOS (possibly one with a certain base ios(s))

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Originally Posted by us3rname [Only Registered Members May View Links| Click here to register] with priiloader blocking updates, you insert the game disc, launch and black screen...
you don't have the ios that the game runs on. All you need to do is install that ios and there you go

if you have the game on a hard drive, then the game runs under a cIOS, so if a black screen there, the game probably needs to run under a specific cIOS (possibly one with a certain base ios(s))

Ah okay that clears it up then! Im guessing there is probably a place that states what iOS a game is running on?

And im guessing its the same with the games run off a hdd? Id just have to find the right cIOS?

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if a new game comes out, and people are having problems running it, look in their threads to see what they did/used to fix the problem
[Only Registered Members May View Links| Click here to register] a thread that lists games and the ios's they use

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