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That turned out to be Wii Fit--a $90 game released in the U.S. in May for the Wii game console--which comes with a "balance board" on which you stand and do exercises ranging from aerobics to hula hoop to yoga. It's a clever attempt to mask exercise as play--but it works. (For a review, go to time.com/wii. That's due in large part to Wii Fit's ability to adjust the action for your weight and equilibrium--something no other game does...
...deep, the board is essentially a fancy scale, which not only measures your weight, but also detects your equilibrium with startling precision. To play Wii Fit, you stand on the board and go through a series of exercises/games that fall into one of four categories: balance, strength, aerobics and yoga. You can box, snowboard or hula-hoop. You can practice your tree pose and lotus position. Or you can play a tilting game that uses careful body movements to maneuver balls across a shaky platter onscreen, as you try to sink them into various holes...
...what did I lose? I didn't lose s---, y'know. I broke my foot because I got up at six o'clock in the morning, first time I ever broke anything, and it was dark and I didn't know where I was. I was looking for the [yoga] mat and I just fell down the steps and broke my foot. And that's okay though because I learned to practice [yoga] six weeks with a broken foot...
...better - not better than anyone else but better than they were before. My kids don't act up too bad. Their mother is a disciplinarian and she's a good mother. When I'm with them, they're pretty resilient in their goodness. When I take them to a yoga class, Ming Lee, she's eight, and she knows to keep a smile and breathe. She knows to try to do the best she can and I try to do the best I can with spiritual ideas. They've been to mosques, synagogues and churches, I just try to keep...
...sports. Rebekah Granquist, director of program development at the YMCA of San Diego County, the second largest YMCA in the country, says, "Although many girls gravitate toward soccer, volleyball and cheering, more and more girls are signing up for our noncompetitive activities like dance and mind-body programs like yoga." Fit daughters who say om - that'll soothe...