Body Fitness

Are tired of the usual gym exercises? Here's great news for you because now, Nintendo Wii is offering fitness games called the Wii Fit. If you have your very own Nintendo Wii at home, this is the perfect time to get Wii fitness games to experience a different kind of feel whenever you want to burn those extra calories.

If you purchase Wii Fit, you will get a balance board and your dedicated peripheral. You can enjoy more than forty activities like ski jumping and hula hooping. You will surely enjoy exercising in many different ways.

Lets take the two examples given; first is the ski jumping. In the game, the player will be given 2 chances to jump farthest while maintaining balance. You have to lean forward to increase speed. You'll go faster and faster if you continue to lean and as you reach the jump, you have to stand straight and make sure that your weight is even on both feet when you land.

Hula hooping is another great exercise. On the screen, you will see a virtual hoop. As you continue to playing, more hoops will be thrown at you. You must be able to catch the hoops and rotate them many times until time runs out.

If you want, you can also play football. You must be able to balance yourself and avoid being hit by the balls thrown at you.

The games are fun and the Wii Fit is divided in four categories; muscle conditioning, aerobics, balance games, and yoga. You can create your own profile and there, your body mass index will be measured. Wii will monitor your progress and performance statistics.

If you have kids, this is a fun way to help them get the right amount of exercise without being bored. Even non-gamers can exercise at home with the Nintendo Wii. If you want to reduce weight, get the Wii Fit games now. You can inquire at major online stores or in your local stores if they have the Wii Fit games since Nintendo released it early in 2008.

Perhaps you will have a hard time purchasing Wii Fit because its a new release but just be patient and shop around. You can ask your friends who already have the Wii Fit where they bought the games. Good luck and with a little effort, you can burn that unwanted body fat away.

South extension market

When invited to F.Chisel, the spa and salon located in the heart of Delhi's South extension market, I didn't quite know what to expect. I mean, a spa which is a collaborative effort of FTV and Chisel seemed like some glamorous but lifeless place where the trappings would take precedence over substance. Man, I was wrong, and how! F.Chisel, though giving an outer impression of just another fitness centre, is quite a pleasant surprise when it comes to quality of service for the kind of price it commands. The three-storied building houses a spa, a fully functional salon and a gym on the top floor. From the elaborate spa menu, I opted for the herbal ball compress which happens to be a healing treatment based on energy flow. Particularly good for relieving muscular pain and inflammation, the therapy involves therapeutic herbs, including ginger, turmeric, kaffir lime, camphor and lemongrass, wrapped in a muslin cloth, soaked, steamed and then applied to the body using soothing and invigorating movements. The hot herbal compress, when applied to the aching muscles in the body, seems to ease residual tension in the muscles and gives a boost to the body's energy levels. I complemented the treatment up with a foot reflexology massage, which felt heavenly. The ambience was good and #8230; with a bubbling jacuzzi in the treatment room itself, though I must mention that the sound of people exercising in the gym upstairs was a bit of a dampener when it came to imagining a tranquil state around me. But what the heck - an entire range of treatments including Thai, Javanese, Balinese, Swiss, Shiatsu, Hot Stone and the works in the average price range of 1000-1500 bucks - what more could one ask for.

Glenn McGrath still loves chicken tikka, to which dhokla and kachauri were added recently. But there is an added Indian attraction this time. The Delhi IPL team speedster, who is in the city before leaving for South Africa, "really likes" Neha Dhupia. The Australian kick-started the Fever 104 Delhi Daredevils Captains Knock on Monday, visiting two lucky winners who, besides a lot of goodies, won season tickets for all the home matches to be played next year. Though McGrath adores Neha, he hasn't watched any Bollywood movies lately. "I need to be updated by Brett Lee," says McGrath, whose "last Bollywood connection was Slumdog Millionaire". With Mohammed Asif of Pakistan out of the line-up, the pacer realises he has to spearhead Delhi's bowling attack. Asked if he, too, is wary about playing in the sub-continent after the recent terror strikes, McGrath says, "What happened in Karachi sure made us think so, but you can't club India and Pakistan. There is no comparison at all." He has always felt "comfortable playing in India", he adds. "Personally, I'm not worried about being here." In his second season as a "Delhiitte", McGrath wishes to expand his Hindi vocabulary beyond "thanda paani". He knows a few abuses, too! Who in the Indian team has he found pretty abusive? And here comes a surprise. "During one match [in Nairobi], it was Sachin [Tendulkar] who sledged at me," he says. "I was shocked." McGrath, like everyone else, is disappointed about the IPL moving out, as "playing cricket in India is a different experience. It's so huge here." But otherwise, he is super-confident. "Delhi will win," he declares. "We have no competition."

Tokyo market ends

The Tokyo market snapped a two-day losing streak to close modestly higher Wednesday on reports about fresh stimulus measures in China and hopes of market-boosting measures by the Japanese government.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 61.24 points, or 0.85 percent, to close at 7,290.96.
The broader Topix index of all first section issues was also up 5.24 points, or 0.72 percent, to 732.04.
The market opened lower Wednesday, extending losses after Wall Street declined overnight and concerns over domestic politics spread.
The market sentiment was pessimistic during morning trading after the US Dow Jones industrial average extended its losing streak to a fifth market day on persistent economic worries.
Domestic politics also put pressure on the market as Japanese police Tuesday arrested a secretary of Ichiro Ozawa, the president of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, and others on suspicion of having received illegal corporate donations from a construction firm.
But investors put their hopes in Wednesday's enactment of a bill to resume share-buying from banks and returned to buy mainly consumer finance, mining and rubber product issues.
On currency markets at midday (0300 GMT), the dollar traded at 98.44-49 yen, up from Tuesday's 5 p.m. quote of 97.75-77 yen.
The euro traded at $1.2499-2504, down from late Tuesday's quote of $1.2653-55, and at 123.10-15 yen, down from 123.69-73 yen.