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Apple Watch Connected program rewards you for wearing it to the gym
Apple is launching a new Apple Watch Connected partnership program this week to make it more compelling to use the company's wearable at your local gym. At launch, it is partnering with four chains in the US -- Orangetheory, Basecamp Fitness, YMCA and Crunch Fitness -- with more to come. Gyms can join the program for free as long as they offer a set of specific perks to members.
Spiritual Guidance: Food, flasks, and potions
Every Sunday (and the occasional weekday) Spiritual Guidance offers holy and discipline priests advice on how to wield the holy light and groove to the disco night. Your hostess Dawn Moore will provide the music. I'm the fish girl. I never wanted it to be this way. I never wanted to be that girl. You know, the fish girl: the woman in the raid who takes it upon herself to make sure all her fellow raiders are eating right by supplying Fish Feast after Fish Feast. Sure, sometimes it's a fish guy (in fact, just the other day my heal captain joked that he had brought Capri Sun and orange slices for the raid) but usually it's a woman. I guess it's a maternal thing, or maybe it's wanting to save time by always going in with max buffs. Whatever it is, I wasn't always like this. In fact, I used to wonder why my raid leader's wife would so willingly spend her feasts on our raid as we wiped all over 3-drake Obsidian Sanctum. I admired her generosity, particularly because I felt they were going to waste on stupid mistakes, and her efforts deserved better. Then one day, after I had moved onto another guild, I found myself surrounded by raiders who were lacking vital nutrients in their diets. That's how it began: first I was helping with the fishing, then I started spending my own precious spices. The first day I laid a feast in a raid, I felt my feminist side cringe. But before I go off on that tangent, let me clarify that this article isn't about fish (not exclusively anyway), it's about the various consumables available to priest healers.
Nintendo donates Wiis to YMCA
Nintendo and the YMCA are teaming up to promote fitness and family bonding through use of the Wii. Over one hundred "party packs" have been donated to the YMCA so far, although the exact contents of one of these "party packs," beyond the Wii console itself, are not revealed. The press release Nintendo sent out mentions that the kids and families who participate at their local YMCA chapter (given that they were one of the one hundred who even received the Wii) will be able to get their hands on Wii Sports, encouraging fun and healthy activity through gameplay. We know we'd sign up at our local YMCA if we knew they had a Wii! "Consumers all over America are telling us the Wii helps them to stay active and fit and also gives them another reason to be together as a family," comments George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. George also goes on to say that "Wii has quickly become a part of America's fitness plan, from bowling leagues for active seniors to kids and parents who sweat through Wii Sports pentathlons together."
It's fun to Wii at the YMCA
Still trying to find a Wii? Get in touch with your local YMCA. Nintendo recently donated Wii party packs to YMCA chapters around the country for the upcoming Healthy Kids Day. The event celebrates "making fitness fun" and could finally live up to that promise with remote-waggling wackiness.This isn't the first time Wii games have been used to promote exercise. One blogger lost nine pounds in a month on a Wii Sports routine and subsequently appeared on NBC news. Now Wii Sports weight loss needs a mascot. Somebody give John Madden a call. Slim-Fast is so 1985.
