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Jan

19

How I Learned To Stop Running And Just Play Wii Sports

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The other day, I posted about Mickey DeLorenzo, a Philadelphian and Nintendo Wii owner who spend six weeks attempting to get in shape with the new console. The Wii is Nintendo’s new console that comes with a motion-sensing remote and has the super-addictive Wii Sports, a game that essentially lets you mimic the motions of bowling, tennis, etc.

DeLorenzo not only lost nine pounds in his six weeks, but cut his body fat and made a great shot-by-shot parody of the Rocky video, only holding his Wii remote and nunchuk accessory while doing the run and splicing in some shots of Wii Boxing.

I chatted with DeLorenzo yesterday about the Nintendo Wii, exercise and his 15 minutes of fame.


How did you film the video? How long did it take?
I just had itsitting on the tripod. My fiance was with me and I would just run toward it. I had this big production plan… but it was just too much. I shot that on Sunday from 10 - 1. One take for every shot, nothing too complicated. So about three hours, and I was able to edit and upload to YouTube in about an hour.

Did people wonder why you were running around dressed like Rocky holding a Wii remote and nunchuk?
I got a lot of that at the stairs, but there were plenty of other people running up the stairs, too. In the Italian Market, the one guy actually offered to help me out. The scene with the fire in the barrel, there was one there, and he offered to put more cardboard in there to build up the fire. My girlfriend tossed me the Wii Sports case while I ran through the Market, too.

Why did you decide to start WiiNintendo.net? How much time do you spend on it?
I’ve always been a big Nintendo fan my whole life, ever since I got my first game when I was five. I’m always on forums and talking to people about Nintendo, so I figured I might as well start a website.

I would say about three hours a day, between writing stuff, researching stuff and correcting stylesheet, behind the scenes kind of things. It’s basically a second job that I actually lose money on. I’m actually doing it out of love.

Where did you get the idea to try to lose some weight with the Wii?
I got a Wii sent to me a week early through a friend, and played it at his house. Then I went to the Toys R Us New York City launch and got one that night. My fiance and I were playing Wii sports, boxing each other. Fifteen minutes into boxing, I was sweating like crazy. I thought it was a great workout.

Next day on the site I said, “This could be a workout.” Right then I just typed up a regimen and stuck to it every single day for six weeks. I didn’t change anything else — if anything, I probably ate more because of Christmas — I didn’t do any weightlifting or running or anything. I started taking really meticulous notes. I weighed myself three times a day.

Right after Christmas, the last two weeks, my weight just started to drop fairly drastically. I didn’t even really know what the final result was going to be.

Are you going to try to keep losing weight with the Wii?
To bring it to the next level, I’m going to add weights — not to the actual game — and try to drop my body fat a little more.

Do you think the Wii is a little more all-inclusive than the typical video game system?
My fiance would never play any video games. I’d be playing Resident Evil 4 on GameCube and my fiance would go upstairs and tell me to turn it down. Now I come home from work and she’s playing Wii bowling and inviting me to play.

My dad actually went out and got one after I brought it home at Thanksgiving after playing Wii Sports and Madden. It’s cross-gender and not age specific.

You’ve been contacted by media organizations across the world after this little experiment. How’s that all going?
Fitness people were actually contacting me to ask if I would use their products to test it on myself. That was cool. And the support has been extremely overwhelming. There’s a lot of naysayers saying that you can’t lose that much weight. I followed everything exactly as best I could without being hooked up to wires or something.

NBC 10 was here [Wednesday] night. I just picked up a woman from BBC Radio at 30th Street Station on my Vespa. BBC TV is coming down sometime, and I just got an email from the Washington Post. I’m so busy at work as well, at this point, I don’t think I’m going to sleep tonight. I guess you have to pay for your 15 minutes of fame.
 
dmac | 9:20 AM | 7 Comments
Interviews, Nintendo Wii
 
  1. Niemic Says: Jan 19 12:39 PM

    What I been wondering is, do you still enjoy playing on the Wii or does it get old after the first few weeks.

    Do plan to keep up the Wii workout, or give it up because you are bored with it?

  2. Mickey Says: Jan 20 5:10 PM

    @Niemic

    That’s a great question.

    To answer your first question regarding if it gets boring after a few works, I’d have to say it’s been exactly the opposite. The more skill I developed the more fun the game became. In Wii sports you have a “points” system and the computer gets progressively harder as you move up in points. So, no two games are the same and on top of that I always have this urge to beat my top score. Wii Sports has one of the highest replay values of any game I’ve ever played. I also polished off Zelda in almost a 45 hour marathon, just before starting this regiment. Zelda is a master piece.

    I’m currently still playing Wii sports (not 30 minutes a day, I’m still contemplating how to bring this concept into a phase two. I have a few offers to do novelty books about this or even work with non-profits to get the system into city rec-centers.

    Mickey DeLoreno
    WiiNintendo.net

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    Just curious have you named it? The Wii I mean.

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