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Part I: Wii Fit Plus
At any time during training, you can click the + button on your Wii Remote to
bring up the Pause menu, which will give you the option to Continue, Retry, or
Quit. Continue resumes the current activity, Retry restarts the current activity,
and Quit brings you back to the Training menu. Keep in mind that if you Quit,
you won’t get any Fit Credits for the current activity. So, let’s go over those Fit
Credits.
Fit Credits and Fit Bank
Notice that cute little piggy bank with the display on the left of the Training
menu? This is your Fit Bank or Fit Piggy, as it is often referred to in the game.
When you engage in
Wii Fit Plus
activities, you are rewarded with Fit Credits,
which get deposited into this Fit Bank. The number of Fit Credits earned
varies based on how much time you spend performing an activity. Although
the Fit Bank only keeps track of your daily earnings, you can see your
cumulative counts by going to the Calendar screen, pressing the graph icon,
and selecting Fit Credits; the Calendar screen is discussed in detail earlier
in this chapter. As you accumulate Fit Credits, more advanced activities
become unlocked, providing great motivation to stick with the program.
Besides storing your Fit Credits and looking cute, your Fit Bank serves
another important purpose. After you complete an activity, the estimated
number of calories used during that exercise will be presented to you and
displayed on your Fit Bank, a feature that was lacking in the original Wii Fit.
If you are wondering how these calorie calculations are made, the
Wii Fit Plus
software uses a METs calculator. A MET, or metabolic equivalent of task,
represents the intensity of an activity. For example, it takes 1 MET to sit still,
which is considered your resting metabolic rate. Super Hula Hoop in
Wii
Fit Plus
has a worth of 4 METs, which would be equivalent to a light walk or
round of golf on foot. If you know the MET value of an activity, you can
calculate the number of calories burned while performing that activity by
using the following equation:
METs
×
Your Weight
×
Time (hours)
×
0.48 = Calories Burned.
Keep in mind that all values for calories burned are estimates. The actual
number of calories burned may be different due to factors such as your
metabolic rate and efficiency of movement. Regardless, this caloric measure
is a good way to get a sense of how much you may or may not be pushing
yourself during your workout.
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