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Review and Giveaway | Kinect Your Shape Fitness Evolved

March 10, 2011 By 12 Comments

Your Shape Fitness Evolved Kinect GameWhat my kids think of this exercise program/games:

  • It’s fun.
  • It’s neat.
  • It copies us really good.
  • Our favorite is the balancing game except sometimes it’s hard to hold their arms up that long.
  • The punching is fun in the virtual smash.

It’s a good mix of levels for my kids with some easier games and some challenging. I’ve had fun with it as well as woke up sore the next morning.

Listen to the following video to hear what I think of it.

I do want to mention that when I was wearing a longer skirt it didn’t seem to pick up my feet movements. I do not know if the light or my newness to the game contributed to it. I had no problems otherwise.

I’m excited to announce that you can win a game too!

Just leave a comment on this post. The giveaway will end Friday, March 18, 2011 at midnight EST.

Disclosure: While Ubisoft sponsored this review, the opinions I’ve expressed here are solely my own and represent my honest viewpoint. Ubisoft, Clever Girls Collective and I promote Blog With Integrity.

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Sunday Poem ~ The Five Best Doctors

June 28, 2009 By 1 Comment

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The five best doctors anywhere,
And no one can deny it,
Are Doctors Sunshine, Water, Air,
Exercise, and Diet.

These five will gladly you attend,
If only you are willing;
Your mind they’ll cheer, your ills they’ll mend,
And charge you not one shilling.

By O.S. Hoffman

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Move Back – Mommy’s exercising

August 27, 2007 By 3 Comments

Since the weather this past week was terribly hot and humid then rainy and dreary I didn’t want to couldn’t go bike riding as usual.  So I dug out my Pilates DVD from the bottom of the stack.  As I prepared to pop it in the portable DVD player I was suddenly surrounded by all three of my children.

“What are you doing, Mommy?  What are you going to watch?  Can we watch?  Can I help?  I can’t see.”

“I’m going to exercise.  No you can’t watch we only have one player.  You can sit beside me and exercise.  There’s nothing to see.”

The DVD starts and the one year old goes off to play, but returns in time to sit on my stomach while I’m trying to do roll-ups (just crunches with a different name).  The Instructor Lady says, “Now to extend the work-out…” She ought to try it with a toddler bouncing on her stomach!

The two older ones decide to sit by me – very close by me – so they can exercise too.  Well, having a child within six inches of each side of you does not work to do Pilates; believe me, I tried.  Telling them that they needed to move away resulted in multiple choruses of “I can’t see.”  [It is only a portable DVD player.]  Why do they need to see every minute of it?  It’s just 2 women on a beach waving their arms and legs around.  Somehow this so enthralled my almost 3 year old daughter that she sat and watched the whole 25 minute work-out.  This is the same girl that can’t sit through a 15 minute cartoon!

My son decided to exercise with me, and I hope that I did the exercises more like the Instructor than he did.  After “exercising” for two minutes he just decided to play in the background and keep an eye on the DVD and I.  Until I did the Plank move…then he managed to army crawl underneath me about five times until I collapsed.

On the third day of doing the exercises they weren’t quite as interested and I only smacked each one of them once.  One during the arm circles, one during the windmill exercise, and one during the leg lifts.  Hopefully over winter they will get bored with my exercises.  For now I’m thankful for a nice sunny day because we just skipped the Pilates and went for a bike ride!
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Edited: A couple years later they don’t climb on me, but still like to exercise with me. One of my favorite exercise DVDs is 10 Minute Solution: Pilates [aff link].

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Bike Rides

July 25, 2007 By Leave a Comment

For Mother’s Day in 2005 I asked for and received a bike and a trailor.  It was so fun to ride around, pulling the kids in the trailor.  [The soreness the next day was not as fun, but it got easier.]  At the time we only had one vehicle so the bike and trailor enabled me to go around town independently.  So nice!  Then I got pregnant and the bike and trailor had to sit for a while.  It waited through the pregnancy, through the baby not being able to sit, and through my 4 yr old learning to ride a 2 wheel bike bikes & trailor[I couldn't fit 3 in the trailor].

Now we can ride again!  My son is doing well.  It was kind of nerve racking the first couple times, but he is doing much better with the rules of the road now.  We go to the library, to the store that has penny candy, to the place Daddy works [the other day we took cookies and had a snack with him!] , to our friends house, etc.  It is fun, and it is exercise for my son and I – the girls just ride.  Sometimes we go when my husband can go along and he pulls the trailor for me.  What a difference not pulling 70 pounds makes!

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