Nintendo created a unique home fitness program with the Wii Fit game. This is a home work out system that you could use to improve your cardiovascular health, strength and balance. Now with the Wii Fit Plus and balance board you get an extra 15 fantastic programs with balance training exercises, yoga, strength training and also the ability to create your own personal work out programs and set fitness targets.
With the run up to Christmas and this system being a choice many people will be purchasing here is a tuition guide as to great ways to get the most out of the system and gain fitness.
1: Choose Trainer
First of all you need to select a personal trainer for you. Pick a male of female trainer and this person will be your motivator and the onscreen coach that will be pushing you hard each work out.
2: Cardio
To get going and get your heart rate up and you moving you should be doing cardiovascular exercises. This will be for you fat burners out there. Use the balance board for step aerobics, hula hood, or boxing to get your heart rate up and the calories burning. You need to be doing at least 30mins of this daily to be making progress.
3: Strength
Choose strength training to get a proper work out. To start choose upper body, lower body and core for an all over body work out. You need to sand comfortably on the balance board and in the correct alignment for the lower body work out with exercises such as squats and lunges. For the upper body you will be doing a variety of push up exercises on the board. Yoga poses are very good for strength and balance and you will be going through a great deal with the program and getting that core solid.
You need to be doing strength training every other day as a day of muscle rest will help you grow as they repair the selves.
4: Balance and Core
Standing on the balance board and performing balance training exercises such as skateboarding and juggling with increase you body stability (your core) this in turn helps you train harder with other exercise.
5: Flexibility
Any areas in your body you find stiff or in pain stretching will help. Chest exercises will get your posture sorted as you aim to keep proper alignment on the board with the programs. You should perform stretching on a daily basis as well to help your muscles recover from exercise.
6: Routine
Ok now get yourself a routine set up from the above advice and create a work out and then follow your Wii coach and make sure you do 30-hour each day to get the benefits.
7: Diet
To gain muscle you will want to eat lots of protein and carbohydrate each day and to lose and to lose weight you want to keep a nice 500 calories deficit each day. You can use the Wii to calculate this and lose via the exercise programs and healthy eating. For good advice try this site on weight loss. Ok now get to it you will be fighting fit before you know it!