Or as it should be called, Quads of Pain – Attack of the Killer Reverse Knee Lunge!
Forget Wii Fit. This is not a game. This is a method of self-inflicted torture targeted at your calves, hips, bum and thighs. Thankfully today is a rest day in the 30 day challenge or I may not have been able to tolerate sitting for as long as it takes to write a blog post about it.
The 30 Day Challenge is a preset program for the couch potato in the crowd. After you’ve programmed in your height, weight and chosen an appearance, you can select to do the 30 Day Challenge on Low, Medium or High intensity. I do love that the chunkiest figure you can choose for your avatar on screen is still a relatively svelte figure. I suppose it would be a little bit demoralising if you could program the avatar with every single lump and bump to watch it jiggle about on the screen as you go through the paces with the Virtual Personal Trainer (VPT).
I’ve only done the first two workouts and I’ve been told by the VPT that I have something like side step squats to look forward to in tomorrow’s workout. Oh joy of all joys! Is it not enough to have 10 odd other types of quad exercises programmed into the Challenge? I suppose not, given that when women bitch about their appearance, it’s usually the legs and bum that give them the most grief.
It is surprisingly fun though….and not only for spectators. Apparently the sight of me almost kicking myself in the butt doing high kick running is a sight to behold. Fortunately we don’t have a video camera or else I’d be just a little worried that I’d be on the next episode of Australia’s Funniest Home Video. What surprises me about EA Sports Active is that I could easily just quit out any time I liked or pause it for a break. But I don’t. I just keep going. Even when my thighs are burning, my calves are aching and I just feel like I want to drop, I keep running because that cow of a VPT tells me to pick up the pace and keep going. So to quote Nike, I “just do it”, I keep running, keep lunging and keep trying not to fall over doing high kicks and high knees.
I almost enjoy doing exercise using this thing. And it feels like real exercise with the amount of sweat that comes pouring off me. I don’t feel quite as sore as I do after a strenuous 14km bushland hike but still, sore enough to know that something is working. 
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