We bought the kids a Nintendo Wii for Christmas. Our 6 year old had been begging for one for about 4 months and it was the only thing he wanted. He had a Game Cube before that and is a huge Mario fan so we got him two Mario games to go with it. Plus it came with two other game packs, one of them being Wii Sports. Up until tonight he has mostly been playing the Mario Games but, I told him last night that we would spend some time playing together tonight. Well, after a few hours of trying to get something to work for a website I am working on, I was ready for a break and we had a blast playing some of the Wii Sports games like bowling and golf.

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Why is it so hard to find fitness equipment for people over 250 pounds? I have been wanting to get an elliptical for a while now. The problem is that almost every one I look at has a user capacity of 250 pounds or less. I just don’t get it. I want to lose weight. But, to be able to have a home gym workout, I need to lose weight. It is starting to piss me off. Oh yeah, sure. If I want to go out and drop $1500+ I can get a gym quality machine that holds 300 pounds or more. But, I don’t have $1500 to spend on a single piece of fitness equipment and I don’t think I should have to spend that much. Are you telling me it is impossible to manufacture a machine with a user capacity greater than 250 pounds for less than $1000? I have found one elliptical that will hold up to 300 pounds. I have found a few treadmills that will hold 325 but I still have not found anything that will go to around 350. There has to be something out there. But, I don’t know where to look.

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