PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[leggy1975]

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englishgolfer wrote:
if i may throw in my 2 pennies worth...

ea sports active 2 is very good. have been doing that for over a year now. i think the variety of exercises in it are great. the one reason it is cheap though is because ea have pulled the plug on the online section. no big lose but you can't track your weight lose and program online now. for £15 it is definitely worth it.

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This ^^

I bought Sports active about 2 years ago now I think and its probably my most used disc in all my collection. The prgrams built into it are brilliant and heart rate monitor and tracking spot on. Its very good for not only losing weight but also building muscle. I found the resistance band that come with it pretty useless so invested in a more professional one but even that was only £10 from amazon. Last year I bought the whoel system again for £10 so could do it "2player".

I have tried loads of other like the Move Fitness, Mel B and also UFC trainer but none of them come clsoe to enjoyment or results you get from this.

Had a quick look and seems cheapest you can get delivered new is Tesco entertainment for £12...bargain

[Wretched_Hawk]

Hi guys,

Just had to removed a few posts from this thread sadly. Please play nice from now on thanks

[michelle_tabor]

you could have just edited my post, I only made an observation of meanness.

I shall repeat myself (the useful bit obviously), I have the fight and find it hard work because you are just punching air and strained my shoulders because there is no resistance like if you were punching a bag.
Anything that is fun means you are more likely to keep doing it so move games are good for that, anything that get's your heart rate up is good exercise (even if it's just dancing about)

[DodgyDodge]

I bought EA Active 2 to get a bit fitter rather than loose weight but lost nearly half a stone in the first month. But I'm allready very slim and strugle to put on weight.
I bought a second set a few weeks ago in Game for £2.99 but I think it's back up to about 10 quid now. I think it might still be 7 quid in Morrisons.
The demos of The Fight and Kung Foo Live are very hard work but I didn't find them to be as much fun.

I also borowed my sisters Wii Fit for a while but found it totaly usles as you have to be to gentle with the board.

[gino_76ph]

I appreciate all the advice & suggestions about losing weight. (and the side issues as well

What i want to say is i know i am clinically obese though it doesn't show when i have clothes on because of my height being almost 6ft tall.

My biggest enemy of the moment is fizzy drinks, salty & spicy foods, pizza and basically eating late at night after work which is around 2100 p.m.

I am cutting down on all of them; whenever i eat late at night i "offset" that by hoovering the flat in the morning and then walking (not jogging) in the afternoon.

The nature of m y work is quite tiring and stressful. my only freetime is saturday but that has been "occupied" by laundry, more hoovering and just walking in the afternoon again; me and the wife would somtimes go out to places around London during the weekend but we just eat out & walk...NO ALCOHOL.

I really want to loose weight as i noticed that if i go from the ground floor to the second floor of a building (that i think is around 30-40 flights of stairs) i noticed i get just a wee bit short of breath.

Gym doesn't interest me becuase of some factors: that they cheat you into getting a contract and it becomes a hassle when cancelling a contract with them (see BBC Watchdog report), i have no time, no energy and would rather put my money on eating healthily. (and this moving house business)

I really want to try fitness/action games to start helping me loose weight.

[LittleBigDragonz]

@ gino_76ph

Put some ( Fun ) into losing weight?

Or, if you and the misses want to do this together make wages against each other?This will help you get to your goals.

[Triklops]

Hey gino you will get there, its slow and steady that wins the race.  It always seems to take a long time to take the weight off but so quick to put it on.

I had been taking a med for about a year, that helped me sleep at night, 

but when they prescribed it to me they didn't tell me this particular type of med caused weight gain.  I gained about 12kg in one year without changing my diet.  At first I thought it was funny because I was always thin when I was younger, and I hated being skinny, but when I got up to 98kg (Im only 5'7) it wasn't funny anymore and I realized something was wrong.  I just by chance found out about the weight gain of that medication, and i went off it, improved my diet, and have very slowly been shedding it off, lost 4kg in the last couple months and slowly still going.

Everyone on here seems to like that EA sports active 2, and I have to admit it looked really good in the trailers and I always wanted to try it, but its harder to find here in New Zealand now, once it went on special everyone seemed to buy it.  So Im keeping my eyes peeled for another copy

[Farscape247]

If your obese at 98kg then god help me, my weight is 134kg but I am not obese it is all muscular, now someone please tell me how to lose muscle lol.

[Triklops]

Stop working out lol, that pretty much usually does it.

Bare in mind I'm only 5'7 so 98kg for me according to the charts is overweight.

Usually the heaviest I have been with mainly just muscle is around the 90kg mark, so 98 for me came with added bodyfat, which I'm now slowly shedding.  

[Triklops]

By the way 134kg of pure muscle would rival Mr Olympia Phil Heath's weight, the top bodybuilder in the world, just sayin