30 Day Endurance, Week Three
This was a better week. Although after then end of last week, that wouldn’t be hard 
I left the sensor in its new position, which seems to have helped on some of the exercises. I finally have a successful count on leg wipers, yay! I’ve also changed what I wear during the workout. I have a very light carpet, and was wearing very light pants. A comment on the forums seemed to indicate that contrast might help the sensor. We’ll see when I get to next Thursday and have pretty much a longer version of last Saturday’s routine.
Unfortunately, it’s stated losing me on both types of push ups. Since those rank high on my list of least favourite exercises, it’s annoying. I need to look into what actually causes that error.
But, I came back on Monday even after getting so pissed off. I also got in late on Friday, and still did my workout. I did the one tonight, too, even though I felt like crap (at least it was a short one), so I’m feeling pretty good about my determination this week 
As a fun note to end the week on: I was given my first “medium” level hit the mitts routine. It’s pretty much like the easy level three (I think), but when I finished I got my first silver medal, whoot! Up until now all I’ve been getting are bronze, and I expected that to continue until I managed to run the fitness test and get a higher result.
30 Day Endurance, Week One
I have completed my first week on the 30 Day program, yay! I’d have to look back, but I think my drop-out point is typically two weeks in. That means I still can’t say for certain, but so far this seems to be a routine that works for me. Even when I’m swearing at the sensor on one exercise, I’m having fun with the next. I’m also frequently surprised when the cool down starts, which means I’m not paying attention to how far into the workout I am. That’s a new one for me
It turns out I get two days off of the program per week (Mondays and Thursdays). Since I was really stiff on Monday, I decided to rotate Intu-Flow in on those days. I felt a lot better on Tuesday. Still, I logged into the game to do speed bag (because I don’t get it) and hit the mitts (because I love it), so I got my Gym Rat achievement for working out every day for a week after all.
The sensor is an irritation, but no longer enough of one to want to shut the game off in frustration. In fact, I’m starting to wonder if it’s not so much the sensor, but limited instructions. The trainers give you a lot of information about how to do the move, and they demonstrate, but the game doesn’t give quite as much for where it needs you to be and whether you’re doing it right.
I got an F on the leg wipes exercise tonight, because I couldn’t figure out how high or how far to hit on the right side. Since it was the first time doing the exercise, an indication of what I was doing wrong, rather than the complete lack of response until OOPS TOO LATE noise and error going red would be nice.
Let’s See If That Helps
I’ve been getting progressively more sore (over three days *lol*), which I expected, but would like to reduce if possible. So, today I took a break after doing the shred, and then did Intu-Flow. I’m not sure if that’ll mean I’m more or less sore, but I’m hoping for less
Off Game: 30 Day Shred, Level 1 & Intu-Flow, Beginner
In other news, I may not be using the games on the Wii, but I am still doing my daily body test, and am still tempted to take a baseball bat to the balance board.
Not Great, But Not Bad
Not as active this weekend as last, but still better than the 15 mins I’ve been pulling off lately
Off Game: Intu-Flow Beginner
Wii Fit Time: 30 mins
Games: Training Plue, Aerobics, Balance
I managed a perfect game in Rhythm Parade on Advanced 
I finally figured out the misses weren’t missed steps, but accidentally moving one of my hands with the other (I think). It’s hard for me to consider that a miss, but I suppose if someone’s doing it intentionally “CHEAT” isn’t motivational *lol*
Computer still down. It’s kind of killing me that this week I didn’t really feel like playing WoW. Now that I can’t, it’s all I want to be doing *sigh*
I also updated the look on my Mii, just for fun. It still looks like me, sort of, but me during the five to ten minutes my hair is likely to stay out of the ponytail
Canada Day!
Yay for a holiday
I spent most of in working on changes to a friend’s web page *lol* But, I got a little time in.
Off Game: Intu-Flow
Wii Fit Time: 35 mins
Games: Training Plus, Form, Health, Lifestyle, Youth
My hopes that my computer problems were fixed were dashed this evening. Same start-up error, except this time it registered the second monitor enough to show me that yes, it was displaying everything on the wrong one. It was also frozen, though, which surprised me.
So, I have to figure out what I want to do. I may have to replace one of the graphics cards, which is something I haven’t done before. I deal with software, not hard ware But the rest of the system seems fine. I may take off the second monitor for a while, and see if it’s just the one card that’s the problem.
Bleh. I’m not typically dual-boxing at the moment, but I’ve gotten used to working with two monitors. I should also look up how long I’ve had this thing, just in case I bought enough coverage to get it replaced on warranty, if it does need to be replaced.
Tense? You Don’t Say
So, at about 2:30 this afternoon I turned on my computer and waited for it to start up. At about 9:30, I was able to do so without entering Safe Mode.
Oddly enough, the time in between was not how I had planned to spend my day.
Anyway, in order to get it to start normally, I had to uninstall my video drivers. Prior to figuring this out, I went and bought an upgrade to Windows 7, thinking it was an OS issue. While I was there, I also bought a copy of Wii Fit Plus, which is apparently the new version included with the Balance Board now.
It has some interesting additions, including the ability to create routines rather than picking the games one at a time. Since I decided to still upgrade my OS, I put in an almost 50 minute routine, which was probably a little too ambitions, since I’d done Intu-Flow through the first half of the upgrade, since I was annoyed.
Off Game: Intu-Flow Beginner
Wii Sports: 27 min
Games: Bowling, Golf
Wii Fit Time: 49 mins
Games: Mixed Routine (Form, Health, Lifestyle, Youth)
I also added a Mii for my cat, and tormented her by dragging her out to the living room to be weighed
Anyway, my computer appears to have finished the upgrade, but is currently sitting on a blank screen with a cursor, and somewhere in between playing the Intu-Flow disc and finishing the Wii Fit routine, my DVD player has decided it just doesn’t want to read anything anymore.
If I wasn’t so dependant on technology, I would take a sledgehammer to the lot of them.
I Unpacked my DVDs!
I’d forgotten that one of the things I’ve unpacked (don’t ask) is my DVDs. Which means I found my Intu-Flow disc. My back was hurting today, so I decided to rotate that in, too.
Off Game: Intu-Flow Beginner
Wii Fit Time: 11 minutes
Game: Aerobics
It’s going to take a bit to get back to where I was