Interesting ideas… I wonder how the Hollywood media would portray this?…

One thing worth mentioning – if you do yoga on a regular basis, you probably won’t find Wii Fit super challenging. The biggest thing it’s lacking in my opinion is the option to construct your own workouts by choosing what exercises you want to do and in what order. The yoga poses are good, and the combination of the trainer on the screen and the balance board helping you do them correctly is a huge help, but if you’re used to a more serious yoga workout I’m not sure how much you can get out of it. That said, I know at least one or two developers are already working on dedicated yoga discs for the Wii that use the Balance Board. those should be out later this year.

And I might eventually take you up on that Y visit, if I ever get over the whole not liking working out in public thing. I’ve tried my girlfriend’s yoga DVDs before, but I just can’t handle the cheesy faux-spirtuality crap the trainers feel they have to suffuse the workouts with for people to think it’s authentic. She can somehow tune them out, but it’s like nails on a chalkboard for me and I end every workout more angry than anything else. Wii Fit and it’s cold AI’s are just interested in me working out, and are therefore much better people than this Shiva Rea creature.

Hey – you can always come to a class at the Y with me for free if you wanna try out the real deal ;-)

(And technically, it called me “overweight”. We both knew what it meant, though.)