Wii Sports Experiment

NOTICE: The experiment is OVER and you can see ALL the results, here: http://wiinintendo.net/2007/01/15/wii-sports-experiment-results/

Update 1: Wii Sports Experiment featured in New York Times, read
Update 2: It has finally arrived, this Monday (today) I’ll be finishing my 6 week experiment, stay tuned for the extensive analysis including images, videos, and detailed stats this Tuesday 1/16/07! There will be a link from this page or you can just check out WiiNintendo.net on 1/16/07.

OK, so I was thinking one day after I played a good 1/2 hour of Wii Sports that I was getting a pretty heavy duty cardio workout. I decided to try out an experiment, where I would do everything I normally did, eat everything I normally ate and see if anything changes after playing 30 minutes of Wii Sports everyday for 6 weeks. If I miss a day, I’ll make a note of it and that weeks report.

No shit. Right? Of course doing anything involving movement an extra 30 minutes a day everyday will result in some sort of weight loss, well that may be so, but I want to chart, graph, measure, document, and record the process. I’m average weight right now, so I don’t think I will be dropping 60lbs. or anything like that, so the results will most likely (if they happen at all) be a loss in total body fat and/or lower heart rate at rest. We’ll see…

Here’s the plan:

I started playing 30 minutes a day this Sunday (December 3rd, 2006), I will do this for 6 straight weeks until January 15th, 2007.


Here is a thumbnail of my “Before” picture: (Don’t want to give away too much)

I will be doing a Fitness Age test daily and playing a variety of the games.

I will be keeping track of the following:

- Weight
- BMI
- Heart Rate (at rest)
- Calories burned per session/per game (via BioTrainer, thanks Nancy!)
- Body fat % (via a Digital Body Fat Caliper and a body fat scale)
- Pain/Soreness
- Additional Notes/Findings
- Wii Fitness Age

I plan on taking all of the measurements three times a day to get an extremely accurate number, that way if I weigh myself before a meal or in the morning, it should counter balance my weight before bed or after a meal.

I will also be taking a picture of myself from the front and side once a week to see if there is any visual difference. I’m going to set up my video camera and capture the 1,260 minutes then time lapse the footage to around 2 minutes, so that should be interesting.

I won’t be posting any mid-term updates, I’m going to wait until all the data and photos have been collected and write up a complete synopsis.



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  • Wii_fan

    I sholud try that so i can lose weight but play at the same time.

  • Wii_fan

    I sholud try that so i can lose weight but play at the same time.

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    Glad to see that someone else is (has been) losing weight while working out with the Wii. For anyone who wants to lose weight with the Wii (and track their progress), head on over to MoveYourWii.com .

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    Great experiment…by the way,….its time for me to change my own BMI , maybe i am sleeping to often in front of my television …:-) ok, first i want to know more about the results of this WII Experiment.

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  • trenton

    NIce job, I too lost a lot of weight i ate at subway about 5 times a week and gave up drinking pop and i also did a body test on wii fit every day. I have lost 57 pounds and dropped from 250 to 193 in a little less then 4 months and that was about a month and a half ago and i am still at about 193

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    NIce job, I too lost a lot of weight i ate at subway about 5 times a week and gave up drinking pop and i also did a body test on wii fit every day. I have lost 57 pounds and dropped from 250 to 193 in a little less then 4 months and that was about a month and a half ago and i am still at about 193

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