Day 5: EA Sports Active

It's been a wild past 3 days, with a thunderstorm that kept us all awake one whole night, a pink-eye scare (she doesn't have it, yay!), work, and a birthday party to plan. I was feeling gross that I hadn't worked out in 3 days, so tonight after the kids were in bed and the laundry was started I popped in EA Active and did a pretty intense but brief workout.

EA Sports Active: The most intensive Wii Workout I've found

This is a pretty good workout game.  I sweat bullets every time I do it, and I think a pool of sweat on the floor around you is a pretty good measure of intensity.  It has a combination of exercise types including some cardio (dance, boxing, running, tennis, baseball, etc) and muscle toning (classic resistance exercises using an elastic band for resistance).  An added bonus is that the trainer in this game acts like they are completely infatuated with your physical prowess.  They give you motivational phrases when you do the exercises well, and my favourite is "you, my friend, are poetry in motion!"  How can you not give those last 3 lunges your all when a buff trainer is cooing over your every move?  There are a few places where you have to do the lunges with the wrong leg in order for them to register, but other than that, there is pretty good feedback and coordination between your moves and the moves of the "you" on the screen.

Here I am, about to go for a quick run, although if I looked like this,
I probably would just sit down and have another beer.

So I get to watch myself run... or, well... the me who wouldn't need to lose weight.  There is a reason I stopped running, and it had a little to do with my knees and a lot to do with the fact that I couldn't get a total body sports bra.  Belly jiggle is a bitch.

Spreading a little Glee:

Reason #137 to love Brittany:

Santana: Hey Kurt, we’re really sorry about your dad’s heart attack.
Kurt: Thanks Santana.
Brittany: I did a book report on heart attacks if you want to give it to the doctor. I got knocked down an entire letter grade because it was written in crayon.