Hey everyone and welcome to the official JUNGLE FITNESS Orange County Personal Trainer Blog!  Today is Celebrity Thursday and we have a special guest today!  Jon Jung of the Jungle!

Believe it or not, aside from the Jungle Transformation Program, I play the Wii for entertainment and exercise.  Last night for couple hours just playing the Wii tennis/bowling with my friend and brother, I dropped several lbs of body fat.  Here is a study showing how you can burn calories and spend time with family and/or friends simultaneously.

Boxing is the most active game on the Wii Sports disc. We strongly advise very heavy people not to go too wild in this one since your heart rate will go up a lot. This could be a problem for people who have been advised not to do big efforts. The fact is that this is the perfect game to lose weight. In a couple of minutes you can burn easily 121 calories in 15 minutes time. So this is a rather fast method and you can even speed it up by using a Mii version of a person that you don’t like as an opponent! Keep moving, move from the front to the back, from left to right. Try punching your enemy from different angles, different types of punches and you’ll be sweating that body fat away. Make sure to keep the wrist strap tight!

Tennis is the second best game to lose body weight. In this game it’s not necessary to move your body from left to right and back to front and that makes it less tiring. Try to play long games and play close to the net so that you’ll have to hit the ball faster. There are some nice tricks to make this the ultimate Wii Sports weight loss game. When setting up the game, just choose to control one of the two opponents as your player as well. You’ll have three Mii’s this way and you can even make the fourth one your tennis player as well. This is only recommended for people that are real tennis masters, but just keep in mind that this is all possible. Also, try to hit smashes since this will speed the game up as well.

Bowling comes on number three since this game doesn’t require that you move with your whole body. When playing this activly you can however lose weight by just swinging your arms and doing some cool moves while throwing your bowling ball. Don’t just move your polses around but swing the ball away with an arm movement. Go for strikes and spares and swing your ball with power, but don’t waste your time on aiming your ball in the right direction. Try clicking the reviews away fast and compete other people in this game since bowling is a perfect game to play with your family.

Baseball comes in fourth since this game is also a lot about watching your Mii run around the field and there aren’t many opportunities to use your whole body in this game. In our testing we haven’t had many people who played this game to lose weight and it won’t make you a real Wii Sports addict. You can play it every now and then to get some variation, but it won’t train your muscles or burn much calories.

Golf is a nice and relaxing sport but we recommend you not to put this discipline in your program since you’ll have to spend to much time on losing a small amount of calories. You can fitch it in for some variation, but don’t do the whole weight loss project with only this sport. You have to focus too much on getting your ball to the end of the course and there just isn’t any way to play this game really active. A swing with your golf club will make you lose some calories, more than that you won’t get out of it. Still a nice sport though, just not something to make you sweat.

(quoted from: wiihealthy.com)

Results may vary on a case by case basis.  Make sure you consult your physician to make sure the Wii is a good fit for your fitness and health goals.  Please understand that the Wii is for fun entertainment, though it does offer exercise options to have fun and lose weight simultaneously. I hope you get the opportunity to experience the Wii and have just as much fun as I do, while at the same time burn calories and body fat.

Stay tuned for the next blog …on Freelance Friday as we talk about the Los Angelas Laker’s Victory over the Boston Celtics in game one of the NBA Championship.

This is Jon Jung of the Jungle and I’m out…

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