The Skinny on the Wii Fit

I'll admit that I'm not one of the biggest tech geek (I'm still confused on what kind of iPod I should buy) but i have seen the big craze that seems to have hit the world and that is the Nintendo Wii. Along with the Wii, there's a "game" called the Wii Fit (Sorry, I know I sound like I'm explaining this to people that don't know this but it's really more of an explanation for myself for future reference...).

This article goes through and talks about how basically, it's not really working on getting people and families fit, although there's a study being conducted to verify whether that's actually the case.

But here's my favorite line of the article:

Still, it seems a little disingenuous for Nintendo to heavily market a fitness tool that's sitting in more than a million American living rooms collecting dust.

Why is that so "disingenuous?" If anything, that's the genius of it. People buy something fitness related, use it two times, and then lose interest. That's what 90% of the market is all about. Think of all the treadmills out there sitting in people's homes that have been used a half dozen times, and now it's used as a tool to hang clothes.

The vast majority of fitness plans, diet plans, fitness equipment, are designed to fail (well, except mine of course...).

There's nothing disingenuous about it, it's just what the vast majority of the industry is designed around.

LOOKING FORWARD

Right now I'm trying out a new interval workout that I built and so far, I'm hating it (read this post to understand what i mean by that..). So keep an eye out in the next few weeks for me to talk about it and lay out exactly what I'm doing.

Everyone have a nice weekend!

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