Re:Not my choice (Score 3, Insightful)

It's not true and honestly, unless you do manual labor for a living (lifting servers and running cable doesn't count) you shouldn't be physically tired when you get home. Okay I'm with you except for this. What I do is not physically challenging in any sense of the term. But both my spouse and I are often exhausted at the end of the day. Most people work more than 8 hours a day unfortunately, and add in travel time etc. it gets rough. I'm a 34 year old physics major doing major catch up in math & sciences (because neither were heavily required for the degree in psychology *sigh*). I'm bone tired at the end of the day, and ready to sleep all weekend (as if I could) by Friday. If I had kids to boot...yikes! All that being said, exercise helps with that kind of fatigue. It's just easy to wimp out at the end of a long day. It's incredibly easy to justify with 'I just spent 6 hours in a lab, 5 more on equations, and now I have to do pre-lab reports AAAAH' I want to veg. out.' But I like gaming. I like gaming a lot more than going to a gym, going for a walk, riding my bike (and I really like riding my bike) and more than vegging out in front of the television. I suspect the Wii Workout will be the majority of my 'exercise' next semester. Which suits me just fine if I can also get a decent workout from it to boot along with gaming. :)