Walk It Out for Wii hits the pavement today
After several delays, the walking game Walk It Out has now been released. Details are still sparse, but they do have a Facebook page with some screen shots.
Another rather unlikely place to dig up some info is in the discussion forum on its Amazon product page (scroll down to where it says Customer Discussions). A user named jadepearli seems to know a few things about the game. According to him/her/it, you can use either the nunchuck/Wiimote combo (put the nunchuck in your pocket), the balance board, or the DDR pad to do your virtual walking. The game also lets you vary your pace by walking on beat or on half time or double time (you get points for staying on beat) and it keeps a record of number of steps, distance walked, and calories burned. If it’s like the DDR games, it will calculate your calories using a formula derived from your weight and steps – not dead-on accurate (these things never are) but pretty close.
Nothing against balance boards, but I think the mat-style controller is the best, most tried-and-true way to get a cardio workout out of the Wii, as well as bone-building impact. So I’m glad to see Konami branching out into more games for its DDR mat besides DDR. Walk It Out may sound pedestrian, but I hope it works well and becomes a sleeper hit like Just Dance.
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Take a Hint
Some helpful hints:
1. Use a scrub each time you shower – if you run out or don’t want to spend the extra change – use sugar. Even if you don’t want to use it on your entire body – hit the heels, knees and elbows each time.
2. When washing or moisturizing our face – always use an upward motion. Imagine all the years of literally pulling your skin down if you don’t.
3. When touching your eye area – use the ring finger. It has the least amount of pressure – even more so than the pinky, believe it or not.
4. Use a darker eye shadow with a bit of water and a skinny brush for an eye liner – instead of a liquid eye liner (God forbid) or a pencil. At our age – the two latter choices are just a bit too harsh.
5. Eat protein at every meal. It’s more filling and builds muscle.
6. Use weight resistance AND cardio to burn fat. Once you turn some of that fat to muscle, the muscle continues to burn calories and metabolize even when you’re not working out. Besides, variety keeps it interesting and you’re more likely to stick with a workout if you enjoy it.
7. Sleep face up. All those lines in your face and decollete that go away during the morning – find their way back years later if you continue to encourage them.
8. Comb your hair IN the shower – or shortly afterwards, while it is still wet. If you wait until it’s dry, there will be many more tangles and breakage. Buy the widest toothed comb you can find.
9. Use taupe colored eyebrow pencil if you are light in complexion. Your eyebrows do so much to frame your face, and as you age, they lose thickness (and arch) naturally, so may need to be redefined.
10. FLIRT – it feels good and isn’t cheating. LOL
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