Walk the Whrrl with the Wii Mommies!

Ever since the historic release of the Wii Fit for Nintendo Wii, the Wii Mommies have been exploring the exploding world of virtual fitness. Employing your gaming system at home to work out, track your progress, and get fit is a WIN, especially for those of us who can’t afford a gym membership, live too far away, or hate exercising in front of others!

Hundreds of women have joined our forums and Fitness Friday in order to keep each other accountable in our fitness endeavors! Well, the Wii Mommies: Jenn, Julie and I have come up with yet another idea to keep you connected and to inspire you to get creative with your fitness!

We recently started using the Personal Trainer: Walking for the DS (Click here to see Julie’s review), and we LOVE it! If you are still using a regular pedometer, that is a good start, but we love the tracking and analysis tools the PT Walking gives. I wrote an article about Using PT Walking as a Parenting Tool to help your children get more exercise.

The Wii Mommies have teamed up with the folks at Whrrl.com to connect people all across the world who are walking to get in shape! You may have seen us creating stories on Whrrl about where we are walking, and we’d like to invite YOU to do the same!

It could be at the local park, the grocery store, or up and down your stairs at home! We want to be able to encourage each other to keep on walking!

Here is how to get started:

• Join Whrrl.com and set up your profile
• Add Julie, Jenn and me (Sarah) as friends.
• Add Erin Crabb and John Kim as friends and they can help you with any technical issues you have.
• Watch the tutorial (below) on how to start your own Walk The Whrrl Story! Just be sure to add #Wiimoms somewhere in your story. If you’re using #PTWalking you can add that as well!
• Search “wiimoms” on Whrrl.com to see all the stories from Walk the Whrrl!

Be sure to ask us, Erin, or John for any help you need, and get creative with your walking! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!