Wow today’s meetup group I went to had over 80 members for events, raids, and raffles in the park! They even had ice cream vans AND taco tables by the football game. One section I was in is for grownup people, but another section is for Pokemon Go fan kids as well. Downtown Richmond nightlife is filled with crime and violence the last few years, and so I need downtown alternatives. Pokemon Go makes a lot more sense in pretty weather like today. I had a bad cold last week, but was better by the weekend. I lost my gym membership, but with weather like today all you need is tennis shoes to work up a sweat. Lucky me my bike still works great for Spring Events.
Community Day Event Tiny library at the big playground.Giant football game has a taco stand.Volunteer Park LogoMore Events Logos Fitness Trail Sign Me in my New Orleans shirt. A shiny pokemon! Shiny Pokemon Go Meetup Day Pokemon have a logo. Football game to watch after Pokemon Go Meetup. Ice Cream Vans did not manage to destroy my diet today due to long lines.
Happy New Year’s Eve To All! Here are some bike meet up park lunch photos for New Year’s Eve! Downtown in this area has been way too wild and violent for night events lately. I am just doing lunchtime meetings and BBQ for a while on weekends.
Thanks to my family Anne and Alexandria and my park bike club friends for many great gifts at this year’s frequent Christmas Holiday parties in Virginia.
Thanks to the park fitness club for not being mad at me today after I was late. I was sick, but felt better by later in the day. I was feeling better, but got bad symptoms again that night. This flu season no one smells like roses.
My phone fell out of my bag and got smashed. I will not be returning phone calls this week, but I am not ignoring people. My new replacement phone is in the mail now my number will not be changing. The timing of this sucks due to it being almost Halloween, and I have many activities to do this time of year.
Thanks in advance to all well wishers of a Happy Birthday on the 7th of October! Birthdays make me realize how far I am from better towns where nicer people gave me amazing parties. I am far from my REAL home in this town most obviously on my birthday.
Weeks ago when I was super sick with Covid someone named Micheal tired to tell me there was something wrong with my car. I had never told them about the make and model of my car, or let them walk me to my car so how did they know anything happened with it? Creepy stalker crap this seemed to be. Then another strange thing happened with my mail. The Mercury club in Seattle, WA wanted to offer me a membership. I applied for membership YEARS ago when I was visiting my aunt Trish living in Bothell a suburb of Seattle, and they said I lived too far away. I had never given The Mercury my new address, and yet mail had been forwarded from one of my older Virginia addresses to me! How did they MAIL that crap? How is Virginia LESS far? Stalkers-stalkers all around! Proof positive people are sharing information about me behind my back, and getting it wrong.
I am a domestic abuse survivor, and have had many ex-boyfriends many times steal money from me, punch me bloody in the face, and stomach. People on the Internet need to STOP forking information over to “friends” who say they want to “help” women in that stalker criminals say that sort of thing too ALL the TIME. The Internet is sadly a treasure trove of dangerous information and misinformation. I have been to some great night clubs, with fun nights, and had good relationships in other areas. In Virginia the clubs are nothing but con-artist abuse factories for bad men meeting new victims. This is why I go on SO MANY road trips out of state, and go FAR away to be social as often as I can hit the road by car, or Amtrak, or road bike. This is why I keep a P.O. box far from my home. An important aspect of data privacy many Internet chat boards forget to mention is do not use home addresses. Simply put don’t talk about women’s personal information behind their back you are NOT helping them, and getting it very wrong.
Welcome to Frozen History 7 Book Reviews I am your host Andrea Menzies. This is the Episode for Tuesday the 18th 2023. You may be asking yourself why is this a book review podcast, and Fitness Boxing 2 by Nintendo is the title of a video game series? How does it qualify as a book commentary? Well the original focus of this podcast was comparing and contrasting books, video games, and movies particularly of Harry Potter. A prime example of how books, games, and movies are no longer separate publications. In this review I take the book Pokemon Black and White Volume 1. by Hidenori Kusaka and Satoshi Yamamoto, compare it to Nintendo’s Pokemon game and marketing on Fitness Boxing 2. Click on the podcast’s description in the comments for the full WordPress blog for the review, and give us a like and subscribe.
There is a mass-hallucination on the Internet that Nintendo Switch Lite can NOT play fitness games, or dance games! Wrong is this theory. I have a Nintendo Switch AND a Switch Lite. You can buy extra controllers for $20 on Amazon if you have a broken controller or a Switch Lite. Then you can sync the controllers TO the Switch Lite, and use them in games that need controllers. I did this on the Switch Lite for the game and it worked great. The ONE thing the FULL Switch has is an HDMI cable port so you can use it one a computer screen or TV. You can’t stream games on the computer to record them on Lite. You can’t listen to audio on TV so dance and musical fitness games are quiet. Move super close to the screen and speakers, and the programs are still usable. My review is I LIKE this product and give it 5 stars as I highly recommend it.
I lost 8 pounds using Fitness Boxing 2 from Nintendo every day for 3 weeks. I have had extreme asthma since I was a little kid, and so it is hard to get fitness things to work for me. Fitness Boxing has intensity levels that you can adjust lower, and also it can be paused. Many videos and classes are “Olympic Level” or nothing, and many people just starting off get scared off. I loved all the levels and badges of Fitbit, but there is a limit to badges where the fitness gets boring again. Fitness Boxing 2 can be played with a Fitbit then gets your steps in for the day fast. Fitness games with music spice things up. Unfortunately my Nintendo’s main game playing Switch broke as I played so much, and it was many years old. I will resume it after buying a new model Switch.
Fortunately there are many videos on YouTube labeled “Fitness Boxing 2 Walkthrough” so you can easily do a low level routine off of YouTube. It does not have the fun instructor outfits to unlock, or badges to unlock, or instructor workouts that unlock song packages as the NIntendo game version. However it is a fun backup method when needed.
Nintendo is no stranger to mixing fitness, and games. A new example of how fitness, books, games, and movies have merged is the new Hogwarts Legacy game released February 10, 2023 that will be out on the Switch in November. It is by the same company that did the fitness game Wizards Unite with Ninantic that was a clone of Pokemon Go using wizards. This new game explores 1800s Hogwarts, and it is a prequel to even Fantastic Beasts so the graphics look amazing. Nintendo is the creator of the Pokemon games as well. This product line has a book series, video games, and a cartoon show. A great book from the series is “Pokemon Black and White Volume 1” by Hidenori Kusaka. This story shows you characters dreaming of getting low level Pokemon and taking them to higher levels. The original Pokemon games had a Pokewalker step counter in them that worked greatly like a Fitbit. This same marketing is used in many other fitness games like Fitness Boxing 2. People go on a journey to go from low levels to high ones.
Modern life is hazardous in that TV, video games, and cars tempt us to live a non-active life. Sitting still can cause heart problems, diabetes, and many other issues. As a kid I left the house, and walked and biked everywhere to meet other kids if I wanted to play a game. Anyone with a ball or bat could play rich or poor. Now kids barely twitch their fingers for hours. Rich kids only care about talking to and playing with other rich kids. Nintendo, Fitbit, and Garmin seem to be the few companies to notice how evil this can be. I started using Fitbit when I was heavily into playing World of Warcraft. On non-game days I got 4 thousand steps before a workout. On game play days I got barely 1,500 steps before I started adding in a workout. For kids it is worse in that swimming, biking, and tree climbing are completely replaced with indoor play. Nintendo has long fought this with Pokemon, W II Fit, and marketing other games with a physical side. My review is this is a great idea. My one idea on how this could go better is if they added a martial arts download packs. Why STOP at boxing? Help people learn even MORE moves beyond jabs and hooks with extra downloads for sale. I took a year of Taekwondo at school, and got a yellow belt. In-person class is expensive. If you are reading this and work for Nintendo, add martial arts download packs you can learn onto the boxing to make the game more perfect.
If you are looking for fitness fun to try to get a summer beach body I say give Fitness Boxing 2 a try. I did and I lost 8 pounds, and got some tummy shrinking going on. It is now my most loved summer video game with music download packs, levels, and outfits to unlock. I recommended it to all my Facebook friends.
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Now onto email questions. Question 1) “What music do they play as you box?” There is royalty free music with the game, and you must use this game music to make a YouTube of yourself if you are doing a video review of the game. Songs you unlock playing the game include “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “YMCA” additional song packs are available online at Nintendo for $1.50 per pack including rock and pop-songs, and in packs of 20.
Question 2) “Do you dance more on Just Dance 2023 or Fitness Boxing 2?” This is a good question as Fitness Boxing 2 has you boxing in patterns greatly like “Just Dance” does dances. Like the right controller matches dance patterns in “Just Dance” the right and left controllers box on beat on the game.
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