Step, step, step

Posted by Kate A. in Mii and my Wii Fit.

I’ve unlocked boxing and a longer version of the step game in aerobic exercises, and I’m pretty excited about this.

The boxing instructor has way more personality than the yoga/muscle exercise trainers. He’s a mii instead of a weird attempt at a human, and he’s got this gruff, quite motivating voice. He seems like a pretty nice guy. Plus, I’m way better at boxing to a rhythm than I am at the original Wii Sports boxing, where I tend to get knocked out pretty fast. Perhaps I should try kickboxing.

In step aerobic land, I can only be amused. After a while, I got the hang of all the stepping up and down and back and forth and kick and sideways and yada yada yada, which to me is a feat. I’m terrible at keeping up with games in which you have to stick to a certain beat (PaRappa the Rapper, Donkey Konga, DDR, etc. You name it, I get confused and the program tells me I suck.) so I can’t believe I managed to get this down in one or two practices.

For some reason, you’re on a stage in front of a full audience doing step aerobics. Scott pointed out that pretty much no one would want to go see that, much less pay for it. I couldn’t agree more. Especially when one might be able to sift through one’s mother’s old exercise tapes fromt he early 90s and see professionals doing it on a beach in Hawaii in much more ridiculous clothes and perhaps make a drinking game out of the experience.

In any case, the Wii takes miis from your mii channel to put in the step show/class thing with you. It often decides to put Mii-Liam or Mii-Ridgaway or someone as unlikely as anyone in the world to be standing next to me in a step aerobics class clapping along enthusiastically to the beat. Now, you may not know these friends of mine in real life, but I’m sure you can think of plenty of people who wouldn’t be caught dead doing step aerobics as happily as if they’d invented it yesterday, much less on stage in front of a crowd. So you understand the hilarity of the situation when a whole group of these people appear around you on screen and look as though they’re itching to throw up the jazz hands and step-class their way to heaven.

This is just SO much better than a gym membership.

Mii and my Wii Fit |