Comments on: A Wii Workout: When Videogames Hurt

By: Poll: If you have a Wii, is it a workout? | Bob Caswell

Poll: If you have a Wii, is it a workout? | Bob Caswell — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:02:54 +0000

[...] and sore shoulders after playing games on the new Nintendo Wii. The Wall Street Journal article I mentioned earlier gave many examples of Americans getting more than they bargained for while playing Wii [...]

By: MAtthew

MAtthew — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:42:32 +0000

Hey!

Ok I got really excited abotu working out with a Wii. And I also wanted to see what and how other people are doing with their Wii”s and if they are working out too! SO, I created a site so that we can all post and share our wii Workouts! The site is free!

http://www.mywiiworkout.com

Check it out!

By: Bob Caswell

Bob Caswell — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:57:15 +0000

Good luck with the workout, Ryan. Keep us posted.

By: Ryan Mercer

Ryan Mercer — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:28:08 +0000

I just wanted to say I’m not saying that it hurt me, I see the Wii as a GOOD thing. I did a video interview with Forbes that you can see over at http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/business/ms_wii120106

-Ryan Mercer
http://www.ryanmercer.com

By: Blah

Blah — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:12:04 +0000

Maybe they’re not playing it right.
I believe it doesn’t take full body motion to use the Wii controllers. Just a few little jerks work as well. So if people really want to be competitive, they would learn the most efficient way to play which is not making yourself sweat like a pig with overacted motions. (But then again, this “efficiency” is what makes some hardcore gamers a little obese.

Most worthless comment made by: NoidZu

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:08:02 +0000

Luke,

I’m not so sure it’s all negative press. Many fan boys are quite happy with the way a good work out is part of playing games.

By: Luke M

Luke M — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:57:48 +0000

For one thing the games don’t actually require the erratic movements that many people demonstrate while playing them, a simple twitch of the controller will suffice. Similar to the wrist strap issues this can be solved by simply not being an idiot while you play the games. There is no need to swing the controller with a lot of force.

I’ve been playing the Wii for 8 days now and I’m not feeling sore from it. I have scoliosis and I haven’t experienced any additional back pain from playing the console.

This seems like a combination of lazy people and fan boys wanting to put Nintendo down.

By: NoidZu

NoidZu — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:59:49 +0000

…Way to be stereotypical or discrimitive. Then STOP CRYING about it!

Pathetihic…

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:49:54 +0000

Wow, you kids are complete retards. Way to be stereotypical or discrimitive. Please, do us all a favor and just slit your wrists, you pieces of trash.

By: fatass

fatass — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:50:54 +0000

no it’s called “wii too fat”