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Stephanie Abrams over at CBS 3 has posted a great article about Wii Fit and the craze that is currently sweeping America.

Stephanie checks in with people who’ve had a chance to use the new exercise game, and let’s us know if it delivers on its promise to help you lose weight and get fit!

Mickey DeLorenzo has been running, wiggling and sweating. A routine he created keeping him on his game … his Wii Fit game that is. The sensors in his Wii Board and Remote monitor his activity level, challenging him to get fit.

At Excell Physical Therapy in Glen Mills, they’re using it to help people recover from injuries.

Physical Therapist Cam McCormick is helping Tori McGrath recover from a soccer injury to her knee. He says the Wii’s interactivity keeps her engaged.

“It’s definitely the best part of my therapy,” said Tori. “The feedback is the most important part of it because I do see how I’m improving.”

Cam says it’s more effective than the usual workout methods. Tori’s balance improved in two weeks.

He explains, “When you have visual input for learning, basically the body recovers faster.”

Wii Fit has rocketed back up to the top of the UK games charts as Nintendo replenish stocks of their insanely popular health and fitness game for the Wii. With sales reportedly up 60% Wii Fit managed to knock Smash Bros Brawl off the number 1 slot as it surged up from 7th in the chart.

A quick check this morning did reveal that many of the top UK retailers don’t have any stock of Wii Fit left, so it looks like last week’s replenishment by Nintendo has all been snapped up. Luckily, there are still plentyfull stocks on eBay if you are wanting to buy Wii Fit. Use the buttons above this post to help you find a Wii Fit on eBay.

In an new article over at Nursing Spectrum, Vikki Newton writes that patients undergoing rehabilitation at St. Francis Hospital are using Wii Fit as part of their rehabilitation program.

Few patients think of the hospital as a place to improve their golf swing, play tennis, or rack up a perfect bowling score, but with the use of the Nintendo Wii video game system, patients undergoing physical or occupational therapy at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, N.Y, are getting “Wii fit.”

“The Wii doesn’t replace conventional physical therapy,” says Susan Hecht, RN, Nursing Rehabilitation liaison, at St. Francis Hospital. “We use it in conjunction with traditional therapy.” Rehab patients at St. Francis and at other hospitals around the country enjoy Wii-simulated bowling, tennis, driving, and golf, and, in the process, reorient muscles, tendons, and ligaments to the activities of daily living.

Although Nintendo doesn’t promote Wii for rehabilitation, a review of the literature shows that it is fast becoming a mainstay in physical therapy units. Even the U.S. armed services hospitals here and abroad are using Wii in physical therapy for injured servicemen and women. St. Francis has been using Wii for about eight months, according to Hecht, who acquired the Wii gaming console for the hospital and says she would like to get a second one. Hecht, a 14-year veteran of nursing who has been at St. Francis for nine years, says she finds patients’ physical improvement from playing Wii games and their enthusiasm for the technology very rewarding.

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Everyday now brings a new Wii Fit underear video. Today it is Emma Frain from popular UK lads mag Zoo’s turn to shake her stuff. Emma is wearing a red zoo bikini as she practices her hula hoop in what look like the Zoo offices.

There is also a raunchier topless video of Emma Fain on her Wii Fit board at Zoo Today , definately not safe for work.

Wii Fit Girl and Playboy model Jo Garcia definately started something pretty special when videos of them gyrating and flexing on Wii Fit in their underwear started appearing on the Internet. So it was inevitable that some finely toned young adonis would accept the challenge and make a video for the ladies.

These latest NSFW videos feature Playgirl model Nicholas Ryan Wii Fit Hula Hooping in a variety of different thongs. Please leave this site immediately if the sight of a man’s bottom gyrating is likely to put you off your breakfast or get you fired from work. If your still here, you’ve been warned!

Kotaku have just posted a review of Wii Skate It, a new skateboarding game that uses the Wii Fit Balance Board.

We hope you’re ready for a world in which all games are controlled with your feet, because following the success of Wii Fit and the welcoming of the game’s Balance Board peripheral by third-party developers, it’s only going to ramp up from here. Fortunately, in the case of the Skate It at least, playing games with your feet may not be such a bad thing. It has the potential to be about as awkward as any attempt to ride a skateboard, if it’s your first time, but you might be surprised at how easily one can pull off nose manuals and nollie kickflips within minutes. More…

Paul Govan over at Play.tm has just written a great review of Famly Ski for the Nintendo Wii, giving it a whopping 85% score. I love Wii Fit but I have to confess that I never really fancied the skiing game, but after reading the review I’m going to have to go out and get it for sure.

I can’t wait to see my two young ‘uns trying it out as it sounds like the combination of Wiimote, nunchuck and Wii Fit board make the user controls sufficiently intuative and natural that even a three year old can master it with minimal intervention, which is handy as I happen to have a spare 3 year old to test the theory on.

In an intersting article over at GamesDog, Verity Burns reports that UK Men’s Health magazine have revealed that citizens of the fittest cities in Britain buy more copies of Wii Fit than other cities. It makes perfect sense that people more interested in keeping fit are more likely to buy Wii Fit as it is a great way of staying in shape, losing a few pounds and having some fun in the process.

The top 10 cities to buy Wii Fit according to Nigel Whiteoak, UK manager of Telebid are:

1. Bristol
2. Southampton
3. London
4. Manchester
5. Liverpool
6. Glasgow
7. Edinburgh
8. Birmingham
9. Cardiff
10. Leeds

Wii Fit girl seems to have started a bit a trend when the video of her working out on her Wii Fit wearing only her underwear got posted on You Tube. There are lots of new homemade Wii Fit videos starting to show up. If you are squemish, look away right now… this one’s a bit of video nasty.

To follow on from the last post about Wii Fit girl hula hooping in her underwear, it seems like everybody is at it now as Playboy have published a video of Cyber girl Jo Garcia using the Wii Fit in her underwear.