I completed the #EASactive 30 day challenge

Yes­ter­day I did the last work­out for my 30 day chal­lenge with my EA Sports Active. I pre-ordered mine and picked it up first thing that Tues­day morn­ing when they came out. I was really excited about the new game, but I was also not so sure it would do all that it said it would. But, I was will­ing to try it out for myself.

I started on the hard level because I wanted to really push myself. After one work­out, I was hooked! On my rest days, I wanted to do more. For the first 3 weeks, I fol­lowed the 30 day chal­lenge exactly as it was sched­uled tak­ing my rest days and not doing any extra work­outs. This last week, I felt like I wasn’t get­ting a good enough work­out doing just the 30 day chal­lenge, so I added some of the other work­outs and even cre­ated 2 cus­tom work­outs. The rea­son it wasn’t hard enough for me though was because it worked. I was get­ting stronger and could last longer doing car­dio, so the chal­lenge wasn’t enough any­more. I did watch what I ate for the first 3 weeks and I tracked my calo­ries the last week.

I offi­cially lost 6 lbs and 6 inches dur­ing the 30 day chal­lenge and 2.5 inches of that was off my abs. I can feel it in my shorts and I’m down 1 size. I have noticed that my arms and legs feel much tighter and over­all I feel health­ier and I’m also not hav­ing prob­lems with insom­nia any­more. And my biggest suc­cess I attribute to the EAS Active? I am now addicted to work­ing out. I want to work­out every day and I sched­ule my day so that I get in at least a 20 minute workout.

I have a total of 4 dif­fer­ent Wii work­out games and I def­i­nitely like this one the best because it gave me the best over­all work­out. I also did not have any prob­lems with the leg band stay­ing in place. I did not like the ton­ing band they included because it stretched too much (although that is prob­a­bly good for begin­ners), but it also started to tear after just 1 week of use. I found some cheap bands at Wal-Mart which worked much better.

I did have one dis­ap­point­ment when I com­pleted the chal­lenge. I really would liked to have some fire­works or a big party thrown in my favor when I com­pleted it. Other than Bob Greene com­ing on to con­grat­u­late me, there was very lit­tle excite­ment. OK, I know that is self­ish, but hey, I just fin­ished the 30 day chal­lenge, I want a party!

Some of my favorite activ­i­ties were vol­ley­ball, base­ball, box­ing and run­ning. My least favorite were the all the lunges, but that is only because I HATE lunges and there was no way around them and no way of cheat­ing and they were hard. But boy are my thighs tight now! My 10 yr old daugh­ter and I are train­ing to run in a 5k in Octo­ber so I’m going to do the marathon work­out 2x/week start­ing with the easy one and work up to the hard one. I will def­i­nitely use this on a weekly basis, but I will also do the WiiFit and my Car­dio Box­ing game too for variety.

Here are a few things I’d like to see added or improved on the EAS Active:

• Be able to take the 30 day chal­lenge with another person
• Offer a couch to 5k program
• Abil­ity to go from exer­cise to exer­cise quicker once you have com­pleted all the activ­i­ties once.
• Offer new work­outs that could be down­loaded through the Wii

Related arti­cles by Zemanta

• Renee Ross at the EA Sports Active 30 Day Chal­lenge (the17thman.typepad.com)
• EA Sports Active Wii — 2 Player Exer­cises (the17thman.typepad.com)
• Baby (Finally) Got Back with the Ulti­mate in Wii Fit­ness (jessicaknows.com)
• Nin­tendo to announce Wii Fit Plus next week? (crunchgear.com)

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