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Chapter 1: Getting Started
2. Step on and remain still.
If you move, or fidget,
Wii Fit Plus
will have trouble taking a baseline
reading and you’ll be instructed to step off and restart the process. After
Wii Fit Plus
gets a successful reading, it will ask how heavy your clothes
are: Light (-2 lbs.), Heavy (-4 lbs.), or Other. Use your best judgment and
select your answer using the Wii Remote and pressing A. If you select
Other, you can press up and down on your Wii Remote’s directional pad
to respectively raise or lower the starting value of 0 lbs.
It is recommended that you use the Balance Board barefoot. Socks can
be too slippery and shoes might not provide enough range of motion or
the tactile response necessary to perform certain activities. One good
alternative to bare feet is to wear non-slip Yoga, Pilates, or “toe” socks,
which provide traction and a full range of motion with minimal tactile
loss.
After you step on the Balance Board, a large green semicircle starts
moving on the screen. This represents your Center of Balance. Try to
keep the green semicircle centered.
.
Wii Fit Plus
now prompts to measure your Center of Balance. If you
fidget too much, you have to start over, so it is important to have a
relaxed, stable stance. If you remain sufficiently still, you receive your
Center of Balance results. Don’t worry if your balance is dramatically off
center, as this is just an initial reading, and as you continue to use your
Wii Fit Plus,
your results should improve.
3. When ready, continue pressing the A button to proceed through the
informational prompts until you come to the first test.
You are now asked to align your Center of Balance by shifting your
bodyweight until the red dot rests in the blue circle in the middle of the
onscreen Balance Board.
4. After you receive your results, press the A button to proceed.
You should now see your Body Mass Index, or BMI, results, which is a
rough measure of body fat based on your height and weight. You will
learn more about BMI in Chapter 2, but for now just accept the verdict
as an arbitrary baseline that will be useful as a future point of reference
to improve upon.
Don’t be alarmed if
Wii Fit Plus
changes the appearance of your Mii’s
waistline in either direction. Remember,
Wii Fit Plus
can’t see how you
really look; it can only guess based on statistics, which don’t always
reflect reality.
5. Press A to show two menu options, Weight and Next.
Selecting Weight shows how much you weigh in pounds. If you select
your weight, you have the option of going back to the BMI screen or
clicking Next. If Next is selected, you are taken to the Body Control tests.
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