TOTAL WORKOUT: 30 Mins
For Wii Day 3, I did the following exercises:
1. Breathing
2. Warrior + Lunge
3. Sun Salutation + Sideways Leg Lift
4. Rowing Squat + Chair
5. Palm Tree + Triceps Extension
6. Aerobics
BMI: 20.27 (previously 20.66)
Weight: 126.1 pounds (change of -2.4 lbs)
That matches when I weigh myself – 57 kg. TWO MORE KGs to lose by April!
Tonight, I came back a little earlier and I didn’t have any appointments. So I decided to do Wii…after a long, long time! TIME TO GET IN SHAPE.
First, I took the Body Test in Wii Fit. If you are serious in getting shape and sticking with Wii, I would definitely recommend to take a body test as you need to know on your BMI, weight, balance, etc and also your Wii Fit age. Besides, they keep a visual graph record based on your body test, and in one way, it helps you keep track on your progress :).
Center of Balance is important as with a correct posture, you can burn more fat faster. (according to Wii, I have completely no idea!)
My BMI is 20.51, which is normal. I went up a little compared before (a long time ago!), so I need to keep in mind to either maintain or lower my BMI.
I am about 127.7 pounds, which is 57.9 kg. Haiyah, round it up to 58 kg lah.
What I love about Wii is that they have a goal setting, so you can keep yourself accountable. My goal is to lose 2 pounds in a month, only to realize it does not match with what I really want to lose weight (hate the conversion between pounds and kg). So if I want to be 55 kg, that’s about 3 kg difference. In conversion, that’s about 6 pounds, so I’ll change my goal tomorrow.
I did two balance tests and the result of my Wii Fit age is…
30 YEARS OLD aiyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Mai dai, mai dai!
Okay, the next few sessions, I’m aiming to hit either my age or below my age!
The next step after Body Test is doing some training! I started with Breathing under Yoga. Later, I did the Warrior (still under Yoga), then followed by Lunge (Strength Training)…
I also did the Triceps Extension under Strength Training. This is one of my favorite exercises – love the fact that it helps tone my triceps, hihi! :)
Get a bottle of water. Follow illustration above.
Then bend your elbow. Easy, right? You can do this anywhere!
I also did the Palm Tree under Yoga (sorry, I forgot to take a picture!). After Yoga and Strength Training, I went on for some Aerobics – my favorite Advanced Step! Each set is 5 minutes, and I did two rounds :).
My training ended with long-distance jogging.
And I spent…31 minutes training! :)
I really like the Fit Bank in the Wii Fit. It keep tracks on the time you spent training. Oprah says you should spent at least 10 minutes (or was it 15 minutes?) a day, exercising. For me, I find myself motivated by the Fit Bank.
It’s been a good Day #1 and I hope to be consistent in my next and future Wii sessions. Stay tuned! :)
A few days after I posted on how I want to lose weight with Wii, Doris came up to me during lunch and offered me something that was totally unexpected and I will remember for a long, long time.
She offered me her TV and DVD player, free (you read that right!) in exchange of designing her personal card.
OF COURSE I SAID YES (though I had to ask her several times ‘are you sure? are you sure? are you sure?’…sorry, Doris I’m pretty sure that was annoying!).
I work on her designs as soon as I received Doris’ answers in response to my questions – what is the purpose, color scheme, information, etc etc etc.
The concept behind her personal card was pretty interesting, and she referred me to this site so I get a better idea. Knowing what Doris wanted the personal card for – as a contact card, a gift tag, something to scribble notes, etc, really helped me visualize (like, there should be ample white space for her to write on!)
I came up with four designs
(purple rectangular shape covers email address for privacy purpose on this blog):
Before I go further, let me just share the choice of font for her name. I initially used Century Gothic, simply to enhance the circular perimeters of the D, O, S, C and U. However visually, CG doesn’t work. I knew that the font for her name has to be sans-serif and where the x-height across all letters must be of same height.
Then it hit: DKNY. I had to look for a font similar like DKNY.
The font that I used is called PetitaBold. You can download it at DaFont.com, my number #1 source for fonts.
Anyway, back to the designs, Doris loves #4! With a few tweaks (taking out the gold outerglow, adding in “C” into her monogram), the final design was done!
I also prepared a soft copy of A4 format upon her request.
By the way, if you’re curious about the opacity grey ‘clipart’ at the background, it is actually a font (no kidding!). In DaFont.com, there is a category called Dingbats. It means that for each letter you press, a dingbat/icon/picture will come out instead of the usual font interpretation. There are 21 sub categories under Dingbats (from Aliens to Shapes to Nature), so experiment, experiment!
I also offered to print out her personal cards professionally done in Bangkok for free, so I’m really looking forward to see a hard copy of this design. :)
It’s really been a blessing to have this opportunity to do something I love and in return, get something that I really need. I’ve decided that this TV will serve a greater purpose – not only will I be able to exercise, but I’ll also try my best to document my exercise progress with Wii here in my blog, so that others may benefit (who knows!) :).
Cheers up to a great 2010!