{"id":2741,"date":"2009-03-17T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T18:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.podshow.com\/media\/1710\/episodes\/147693\/fitlife-147693-03-17-2009.mp4"},"modified":"2011-02-28T23:25:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T05:25:51","slug":"amy-mac-reviews-the-wii-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/03\/17\/amy-mac-reviews-the-wii-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Mac Reviews the Wii Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Wii has been a huge success and its not just for gamers. \u00a0Of all the gaming consoles out there, the Wii has been the most popular with families. \u00a0I know from experience how much fun it can be and yet I wanted to put it to the test of being more than just a good time. \u00a0With the $90 purchase of the Wii Fit, I wondered if my exercise world would be turned upside down. \u00a0Balance tests, yoga, skiing, soccer, hula hooping, strength training and aerobics are all offered in this game and I wanted to know if it really would be the end of &#8216;working out&#8217; and the beginning of &#8216;playing around&#8217; to lose weight. \u00a0There are pros and cons to everything and all of that is discussed in this Fit Life video. \u00a0I&#8217;m a newbie to this whole Wii Fit thing, so I&#8217;ve got lots to learn and discover and I&#8217;ll keep you posted along the way!<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background:#000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20494201?title=1&amp;byline=1&amp;portrait=1&amp;color=00adef&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>What do you think about the Wii Fit? \u00a0Post a comment and let me know!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nintendo Wii Fit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/wiifit\/launch\/?ref=http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=wii+fit&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">Nintendo Wii Fit<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Gizmodo Wii Fit Review\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/391553\/wii-fit-review-by-a-formerly-fit-geek\">Gizmodo Wii Fit Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QII4Z8?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wamwithamymac-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001QII4Z8\">Buy the Nintendo Wii Fit with Balance Board and Dream Gear Fitness Bundle!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"godaddy discount code\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/godaddy-discount-codes\/\">GoDaddy Coupons and Discounts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/withamymac.com\/\">WithAmyMac.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Nintendo Wii has been a huge success and its not just for gamers.\u00c2\u00a0 Of all the gaming consoles out there, the Wii has been the most popular with families.\u00c2\u00a0 I know from experience how much fun it can be and yet I wanted to put it to the test of being more than just a good time.\u00c2\u00a0 With the $90 purchase of the Wii Fit, I wondered if my exercise world would be turned upside down.\u00c2\u00a0 Balance tests, yoga, skiing, soccer, hula hooping, strength training and aerobics are all offered in this game and I wanted to know if it really would be the end of &#8216;working out&#8217; and the beginning of &#8216;playing around&#8217; to lose weight.\u00c2\u00a0 There are pros and cons to everything and all of that is discussed in this Fit Life video.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m a newbie to this whole Wii Fit thing, so I&#8217;ve got lots to learn and discover and I&#8217;ll keep you posted along the way! <\/p>\n<p>What do you think about the Wii Fit?\u00c2\u00a0 Post a comment and let me know! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/wiifit\/launch\/?ref=http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=wii+fit&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\" title=\"Nintendo Wii Fit\">Nintendo Wii Fit<\/a>  <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/391553\/wii-fit-review-by-a-formerly-fit-geek\" title=\"Gizmodo Wii Fit Review\">Gizmodo Wii Fit Review<\/a>  <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QII4Z8?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wamwithamymac-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001QII4Z8\">Buy the Nintendo Wii Fit with Balance Board and Dream Gear Fitness Bundle!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong> <br \/>Thank you to our sponsors!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/%20http\/\/www.eastbay.com\/SID--8059\/PID--FITNESS1?cm_mmc=Affiliates-_-MEVIO-_-FitLife-_-15percent\">Eastbay.com<\/a> &#8211; Save 15% off any athletic shoe and apparel purchase when you use the discount code: fitness1 <\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/fitlife\" title=\"emusic.com\/fitlife\">emusic.com\/fitlife<\/a>  for a 14 day free trial and 35 free songs! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meviooffers.com\/show\/fitlife.html\">Find other promo codes and disounts HERE!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fine Print:<\/strong>  <br \/>  You can find the rest of my shows on my Mevio profile at <a href=\"http:\/\/amy.mevio.com\/\" title=\"amy.mevio.com\">amy.mevio.com<\/a>. If you would like to get all of my shows (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.assercize.mevio.com\/\" title=\"Assercize\">Assercize<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fitness.mevio.com\/\" title=\"Fitness Attack\">Fitness Attack<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fitlife.mevio.com\/\" title=\"Fit Life\">Fit Life<\/a>) as well as my News &amp; Recipes blog, subscribe to the main feed at <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/wamall\">feeds.feedburner.com\/wamall <\/a>or read it online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\">www.withamymac.com\/news <\/a>  <br \/>  Thank you to Mevio for free hosting and technical support!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[20,83,12,23,9,225,490,89,66,93,87,88,15,1583,308,1582,21,1403,13],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episodes","category-fitlife","tag-amy-mac","tag-amy-mcintyre","tag-exercise","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-tips","tag-fitness-videos","tag-green-living","tag-gtd","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-living-fit","tag-mevio","tag-podshow","tag-videos","tag-wii-fit","tag-wii-fit-review","tag-withamymac","tag-working-out-tips","tag-workout"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}