Well, the second week of the EA SPORTS Active six week challenge ends today and boy, do I feel it!  WHEW!

I have to modify my workouts because my knees crunch like potato chips, so I’ve modified my workout by putting it on hard and taking all the lunges and squats out.  Following that workout, I’ll usually add in either a ten minute ab routine or customize an arm workout.

I’m a bit upset that I can’t do the leg exercises, because I despise my thighs.  I’m finding that I have no problem with the running, sprinting and obstacle courses, so I’m hoping that calorie burn will tone my legs the way I’m hoping I can get them to be.

This stupid hysterectomy has caused me some weight gain.  I swear, I’ve kept as active as possible since I’v had the operation.  I used PT:Walking for months and then tried Wii Fit Plus until I felt i could handle the high intensity working EA SPORTS Active provides.  Now I’m using the EA SPORTS Active More Workouts and adore it.

Since I got sick again last week, I continued to stick to my 4 days of working out using EAS Active, I just had to use it on Easy and sometimes managed a Medium since you can alter what you can actually do.  Squats and lunges?   Not the best idea when you have a stomach virus.

Now that I went to my doc and got an arsenal of medication to get me healthy, I’ve managed to bump my workouts to hard.  I did that for the first time yesterday and like I stated above, added some other routines to make me feel a little better about my health and appearance.  I don’t understand how @Active_Girl rocks the Squash.  That’s something I need to work on.  I’m a wii bit competitive and I want to vlog it once I master it, and I WILL master it, so watch out, women!

Speaking of EA SPORTS Active, I’ll finish off this post with some fantastic information they’ve recently announced!

EA SPORTS Active is officially welcoming Nancy O’Dell to the EA SPORTS Active family!  Yes, THE Nancy O’Dell, the co-anchor of “Access Hollywood” and is the only on-air talent who has been with the program since its inception. She has also contributed reports to NBC News’s “Today” show and “Dateline.”  She will be using Active throughout the holidays so feel free to talk to her about it on twitter where you can find her at @NancyODell.

Heard the big news? EA SPORTS Active is starting the 10 days of #easactive on Monday. Giving away 2 copies/day for 10 days!  You have GOT to read THIS PAGE for more info, what an amazing gift to give all the wonderful people in the #easactive community!

Here’s an excerpt from their announcement (you can find the rest on THIS PAGE) -

Ahh…the holidays. They are upon us and I happily embrace them. Everyone seems to be getting into the spirit so why should EA SPORTS Active be any different? We want to play too! We have put a twist on The 12 days of Christmas and would like to offer you The 10 days of Active.

Starting on Monday, December 7th, we will be giving away 2 copies a day of EA SPORTS Active More Workouts from Monday-Friday, over the course of 10 days. If you’re a math genius, you would have figured out that that’s 20 copies! To what do you owe this cup full of holiday cheer? We value our community and would like to thank you for being the fabulous challengers that you are. We also want you to be able to share the love that you have for Active with those that you care about.

Please remember to update The Wii Mommies about your fitness progress!  We have a linking system on our Featured Fitness Friday post on The Wii Mommies website and want to know how you’re doing.  Simply write a post on your own blog and link to that, or you can even write your post in the Forum section in out brand new community that can be found at http://wiimommies.ning.com/.

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