From a "Newbie"
I tried the WII FIT yesterday for the 1st time & I am wondering if wearing my regular lightweight "running shoes" will interfere with my WII FIT workouts and games--either hinder me, damage the equipment, or skew results. These are the shoes I always wear for ortho support. I tried using the Balance Board without shoes, as is recommended, and could not continue after a few minutes. Need some answers please 'cause I can't continue if my feet hurt!

I usually just wear socks and have a neoprene (sp?) cover on the board. Haven't had any foot pain so far.

I am a wii fit newbe with a similar problem. I have only used my board for three days and have a pain in the arch of my foot. I always have arch pain when I go bare foot. In shoes and trainers I have an insert to provide support. Does anyone know if you can wear trainers when using the balance board as I see the instructions are to go bare foot. Why? Would I damage the board or invalidate the warranty if I wore my trainers?

shoes have been known to damage a board. I play in my slippers in the winter but they're extremely light weight.

The standard recommendation is to purchase a pair of arch support bands. They're made out of elastic or neoprene and they velcro on over your socks. I've used something similar to workout and it's never been a problem. You can usually pick them up at a drugstore or you can get them at amazon.

I have worn shoes on the WII board and it has caused no damage at all.

I suffered a stress fracture in my left foot and could not work out without shoes any longer. I had to wear a surgical boot on my left foot and thus a sneaker on my other foot.

I purchased one of those skins for the WII board
Wii Fit Balance Board Silicone Sleeve

(you can also get them at Walmart)
and went right on working out.

I put in a lot of hours Stepping and that puts the most "stress" on the board and the Wii board is still going strong after a year.

I still workout with sneakers on.

what is this?

Hi joyi2011,

Not sure what you mean, by what is this?

This is a conversation between members of the wii fit forum, as to whether its ok to use the wii fit balance board with footwear on when they excercise , Do you not have the wii fit plus? were you unaware of what type of forum you registered with? Not sure of what else I can say to your question......except if you do have a wii fit plus & balance board you might like to expand on your question if your unsure of anything.

Regards
Auldnewbie

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