EA Active More Workouts, Pat round the globe
Last night I finally got a chance to try out EA Active More Workouts, one of my Christmas gifts. My after work Wii fitness routines has been generally lacking and instead I’ve been doing my standard quick crunch / push up routine.
Well much like Wii Fit Plus, they did a nice job with the second iteration EA Active. Instead of a park in the mountains, this version of the game puts you in a tropical location which of course I would always prefer. Almost all of the activities and exercises are brand new.
They made a couple really cool additions, including a warm up and cool down period for every workout something that was severely lacking from the old game. In the original within the first minute you could find yourself doing jumping split squats with no warm up which is a recipe for injury.
When I did the workout challenge in the original game I selected the medium intensity level. I decided to crank it up to high this time around. A half hour later I was thoroughly tired. A quick tip, wear briefs when doing EA Active, the jump rope activity is murder on the jewels otherwise. I’m going to see if I can get a session in after work each day outside of Fridays and the weekend.
My brother Patrick just got back from Japan. He was there for nearly a month for his job. Pat is an incredibly cool kid. If I was able to go back and relive the period of my life from the age of 16-22 I think I would use Pat as a template. He has done and experienced so many interesting things in that time period it makes my head spin.
During that same time period in my life I was spinning my wheels just trying to get by after wasting an opportunity to go to college because of youthful disillusionment in a relationship that went nowhere. Patrick is a great athlete (recently completed his first marathon), extremely intelligent, adventurous and maintains an off center perspective on life that is refreshing. Oh yea, he also plays guitar.
Although he has had several girlfriends during that time period he wisely never allowed them to become the focus of his life. Instead Patrick did everything a kid his age should do, experience life to it’s fullest. I have no doubt his future will be filled with great things.