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Nintendo Wii Releasing “Wii Fit” on May 19th.

Wii Fit - Wii what? As many of you know, Wii is the popular interactve Nintendo game console - well Wii Fit is the new fitness game in their Wii Sports collection that promises to get your body in tip-top shape.

Wii Fit has already sold over 1.8 million copies in Japan and the United States May 19^th launch is expected to share the same results. Last week the UK launched a successful Wii Fit Campaign (Model/Fitness Athlete Nell McAndrew and girl singer Sarah Harding demonstrated Wii Fit at the launch) with sellout pre-orders of this interactive fitness game. Wii Fit is incorporated with the Balance Board accessory (a pad that players stand on during their exercises) which will have an estimated price point beginning at $89.99. The board is innovative in that it responds to both your balance and body weight.

The interactive fitness game begins with you checking your BMI (Body Mass Index Rate) and then test your balance to determine what your “Wii Fit Age” is. You can select from forty plus workout sessions such as challenging muscle conditionings, aerobics, boxing, running, snowboarding, yoga and even hula-hooping.

This game has the potential of getting your body super sexy bikini ready (or bathing suit ready - for those chicks out there that prefer sexy one-pieces!) just in time for the summer. Perhaps even just get those legs toned so you even look even sexier in the latest styles of strappy stilettos

For busy hot moms or just hot chicks with hectic schedules, Wii Fit may just be the ticket for you to become the best glamour babe you can be! Grab your guy or your kids and get healthy and fit!

Sport Tidbits:

BMI or Body Mass Index is your number that is calculated from your height and weight. It an estimation of the percentage of your total weight that comes from fat and doesn’t include muscle, bone or organs. For example, the higher your BMI is, the higher the percentage of fat you have in your body. General rule of thumb for a good healthy weight is a BMI between 20 and 25.

Damn.….I so want to compete in this race next year!

For a chance to win $15,000 - race about a quarter of a mile (350 meters) in high heels! Sign me up! Saturday as I was watching CNN, I was in amazement at the news story regarding the “Stiletto Run” held March 7, 2008 in Amsterdam on the shopping mecca street, P.C. Hooftstraat.

Why was this “sporting” event so interesting to me? For one, I rarely go a day without wearing “high heels” or “stilettos”….it’s on rare occasion you’ll find me in flats. I’ll wear high heels/stilettos in the rain, to Little League baseball games, to the beach and just running errands around town. I can run in them, walk down flights of stairs in them, etc., basically do anything in them ; all very gracefully mind you. (If you can’t “walk” in them, please don’t do your heels injustice by wearing them….nothing is worse then seeing a gorgeous pair of heels on some chick who can’t walk right in them….girls….practice if you must).

European Glamour Magazine sponsored the event and preliminary heats were held in six of the Netherlands’ and Belgium’s major cities before the actual race. Minimum heel height for the ladies was 3 1/2 minimum….now in my opinion, that would just be considered your standard “high heel”….and also in my opinion, 5 inches and beyond would actually be classified as stilettos, but hey - that’s just me…and mind you, the term stiletto technically refers to the silhouette of the shoe, not so much the height.

Through the years, fashion historians have much debated the actual origination of the stiletto. Was it Italian designer, Salvatore Ferragamo in 1952 whose innovative design of the steel shank metal heel in women’s shoes naming it the stiletto-dagger after its namesake knife? or; French Designer, Roger Vivier of House of Dior in 1954, who gave birth to the needle heel (rod of steel) - the ultra thin talon aguille pairing it with your basic pump silhouette? Regardless of who was first, I’m just thankful for the design.

Out of about 150 competitors, Tamara Ruben from Veenendaal was the victor of the third annual Stiletto Run. She was reported as saying her prize money would be spent on “anything but heels.”

Tidbit of Info:

Preliminary Heat: In sports, before a race or contest, it either eliminates competitors or determines the beginning order for players competing in a sport.