The active-play phenomenon started by Wii Sports now spreads to your whole body thanks to Wii Fit and the difficulty-insightful Wii Balance Board, which comes bundled with it. Used together players will encounter an extensive array of fun, dynamic and surprisingly challenging actions, counting aerobics, yoga, muscle stretches and balance oriented games. The focus of these actions is towards providing a "core" exercises, a well loved exercise method that emphasizes slower, controlled motions, but it's the fun deal with to fitness of Wii Fit that will keep players hooked on fitness for years to come.
The Wii Balance Board.
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Assess your BMI and Wii Fit age.
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Delight in a wide variety of mini-games.
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Follow your own private trainer.
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Track your progress hostile to friends.
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The Wii Fit Balance Board
The primary tenet of Wii Fit is balance. Your center of balance, the point between your left and right sides when you stand upright, has a lot to do with your health. Those without an even center of balance will be strangely compensating for this imbalance, which causes their posture to become misaligned, increasing the possibility of putting excessive strain on their bodies. This is where the Wii Balance Board comes in.Similar in advent to a step aerobics board, the Wii Balance Board is much, much more. Easily capable of supporting weights up to a most of 300 pounds, it is sturdy and precise, able to rate weight and catalog difficulty accurately when placed on a variety of flat surfaces. This well ahead level of sensitivity allows for both the wide range of actions found in the Wii Fit software as well as the board's incredible skill recognize individual players by their weight alone.Getting Started: Make a Profile
Before you jump into doing exercises and actions, you’ll start by making a profile. This is done easily and intuitively by simply choosing a Mii, entering your height and age information, and doing a few quick tests that will serve as a baseline for your new Wii fitness regimen. These tests are:- BMI Check: BMI, or Body Mass Index, is a rate of body stout based on height and weight that is the ordinary used by agencies such as the World Health Organization and the Inhabitant Institute of Health. To check your BMI, you’ll enter your height then stand on the Wii Balance Board and let it read your weight.
- Wii Fit Age: After you’ve checked your BMI, you’ll do a basic balance test and find out your contemporary Wii Fit Age. This basic balance test events how well you can control your left and right balance. Based on the results, you’ll be assigned a Wii Fit Age.
Four Categories of Fun
Once you have made your profile it's time to have some fun. Wii Fit facial appearance four main categories of exercises to choose from: Strength Training, Aerobics, Yoga and Balance Games. Wii Fit will guide you through the first three with the help of your own virtual private trainer, while the balance games offer variety and fun to help keep you engaged and excited about your fitness goals. In addition, as you spend time exercising, you’ll earn Fit Credits that unlock bonus exercises and actions within your pet categories that will allow you to take up again to push physically. See more detail on the four categories below: - Strength Training: Place your strength to the test with muscle-toning exercises like Single Leg Extension, Sideways Leg Lift, Arm and Leg Lift, Single-Arm Stand, Torso Twists, Rowing Squat, Single Leg Twist, Lunge, Push-Up and Side Plank, Jackknife, Plank and Tricep Extension. Challenges contain Push-Up Challenge, Plank Challenge and Jackknife Challenge.
- Aerobics: Get your heart pumping with fun, interactive Aerobic exercises like Hula Hoop, Basic Step, Basic Run, Super Hula Hoop, Well ahead Step, 2-P Run, Rhythm Boxing, Free Step and Free Run.
- Yoga: Work on your balance and flexibility with Yoga poses and actions like Deep Breathing, Half-Moon, Dance, Cobra, Bridge, Spinal Twist, Shoulder Stand, Warrior, Tree, Sun Salutation, Standing Knee, Palm Tree, Chair, Triangle and Downward-Facing Dog.
- Balance Games: Get into the action with fun, balanced-based games like Soccer Heading, Ski Slalom, Ski Jump, Table Tilt, Tightrope Walk, Balance Bubble, Penguin Slide, Snowboard Slalom and Lotus Focus.
Keep Track of Your Progress
Since keeping fit is an ongoing process, Wii Fit also tracks the actions you do the most and puts them into your Favorites category. With this information players can note exercises and actions that they are strong in, as well as others that may need to increase at. Some of the ways players can use this information for are to: - Keep tabs on your daily progress with simple-to-know graphs and charts. Using your private profile, you can set goals, view a graph of your BMI results over time, see how many Fit Credits you’ve earned, check your Wii Fit Age and even enter exercise time you’ve done outside of Wii Fit. It’s all about coming back and exercising a small every day, and the private profile makes tracking your daily progress simple and simple.
- Quickly check your Wii Fit Age and BMI without even putting the game in the console by going directly to the Wii Fit Direct.
- Allow up to eight family members can make their own profiles in Wii Fit. On the profile-selection screen, all in the family can see each other’s recent BMI progress and Fit Credit total. This will allow families to have a forthcoming struggle to exercise and get fit.
Variety, fun and progress tracking; Wii Fit has it all. So, Wii owners if you ready to reclaim your balance and get fit all you need is Wii Fit, a few minutes a day to play and the urge to have fun. Get on board today.
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 Own a Wii? Are an adult? Don't have time but want to stay fit? Then BUY THIS! |
| Review Date: May 5, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Sophocles Sophocleous, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| I own the Wii Fit since last week. I'm 32, 1.76m, ~82-84kg (fluctuates) and with my wedding coming up in a few months I wanted to lose some weight. I work all day and have small time in the evenings so the training and pouring to and from the gym was too much. I wanted to use that 30-40 min to exercise, not prepare for exercise. I own a Wii since Xmas and resolute to try this out after reading various reviews on the internet. Is this as excellent as going to the gym? No it does not replicate a gym. Will it get the job done? Will it keep you fit and help you lose weight? YES YES YES! I like it and highly recommend it. I get a fantastic work out in 45 min. I feel fantastic about myself, and have already lost a kilo. (note I have not altered my diet). Notice I get my work out in as much time as it takes to go back and forth and prepare for gym. I also have more fun than going to the gym on my own. Perhaps going to a gym with a friend would be more fun. Depends. Anyway I like the Wii Fit! Note it takes a few times to get used to it and figure out how best to use it. Why? Well there is no prepared curriculum for you. You have to choose on your own what you want to do and in what sequence. I start off by doing the aerobics (jogging, holla hoop) and then vary. Basically, the Wii Fit breaks its exercises into Muscle, Balance, Aerobics, and Yoga. I mainly doing the Aerobics and mix in some muscle and yoga. The muscle and yoga can be really tough. You wouldn't judge how much. You can really feel the muscles effective. I do the balance exercises when I'm tired and want to relax a bit in between exercises. They may help with balance but are more of a game than anything else. The more you exercise, new exercises open up. In other words, you start of with a restricted about of stuff to do and slowly you get more and more. Don't listen to the few negative reviews you may read on the internet. They were probably biased hostile to the product before even trying it. This product costs a small more than going to the gym for a month (at least in my country). By the time I unlock all the exercises, I will have exercised more than a 1-month gym subscription, burnt more calories, and will have a fun game left too! Compared to not anything after a month at a gym. I highly recommend this. As I clarified, you are getting more than your money's worth, having fun, and getting fit. |
Wow!
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| Review Date: May 20, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Julie Neal, Sanibel Island, Fla. |
Addictive. Hard. Rewarding. Fun. Tiring. Frustrating. Incredible.
Too many adjectives, I know, but Wii Fit is all of those things.
I was impressed when we bought a Wii for our daughter last Christmas. Now I'm tickled. Finally, a video "game" that seems tailor made for me! I've only had my copy of Wii Fit for a few days now, but already I can tell that if any piece of home equipment is ever going to help me get back in shape, this is it. Background it up is hardly tougher than slipping in a DVD, and, unlike the Total Gym I once had, it makes you feel young just using it.
The first thing you do is weigh physically by standing on the included wireless "Balance Board." After that, all seems more like a game than a exercises, but after 30 minutes with this thing I was sweating just as much as I do at the gym. There are four types of exercises: aerobics, balance, strength training, and yoga. Lasting from a minute to 10 minutes each, specific virtual actions contain boxing, hula-hooping, jogging, push-ups, some very fun snowboarding action and this funky sloping game where you push balls into virtual holes.
Back to that balance board. You'll despise what it tells you about physically, but like that it told you. Above and beyond your weight, you learn your Wii Fit Age, a figure that combines your weight, body mass index and sense of balance. As you exercise, the curriculum tracks your progress, or lack of it.
My only two complaints: the voice that speaks to you is small-kid cute, and there are no pre-set workouts.
If you're like me, you buy a lot of video games for your kids. If you can find it, buy this one for physically. I got mine at list price, but I'd say it's worth about $150. |
From a confirmed couch potato to a Wii Fit addict!
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| Review Date: June 2, 2008 |
| Reviewer: C. Day, Inner Coastal CA USA |
I won't repeat what others have said about how this works, what it includes, or the fact that it is a quality piece of equipment.
Nope, all I will say is - I'm a 54 year ancient female who Despises any type of "formal" exercise (that which is not walking or gardening, pretty much) and I Like MY Wii FIT!
I just got it last week, waited a few days before getting it set up, and immediately set to culture how to balance my body (not my strong suit) - and finding it amazingly FUN in the process.
Turning point was Friday when I CHOSE to get on the Wii instead of go make a sandwich for lunch! And 32 quick minutes went by, twirling, leaning, sweating and HAVING FUN before I finally made it to the kitchen.
I am SO glad I bought this! I Like racking up "points" and unlocking even more games and the well ahead levels.
OK, so the graphics and voices are a small less than stellar but honestly I don't care. I hope this thing lasts unendingly. Fun for the whole family! |
A Few Flaws but an Awe-inspiring Healthy "Game"
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| Review Date: May 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Lisa Shea, |
The Wii Fit "game" for the Wii is far more than a game! It comes with a balance board and lets you practice yoga, strength training, aerobics and other fitness games with your very own Private Trainer.
First, how it works. There is a white fake balance board you stand on, which is in essence a multi-part scale. It can tell just so where you are standing on the board, and where your weight is. If you lean forward, it senses the weight shift. If you stand on one foot and wobble around, it can sense that wobble. *Precisely*.
So for example, in the yoga area one of the exercises is "tree pose". This is the classic yoga pose you see with one foot hostile to the other leg and the hands up in the air. You stand that way for about a minute. The Wii knows just so how steady you are, and shows you a red dot dancing around the screen to show your fluctuations. Of course, if you are really excellent at this, it shows that dot calmly at rest.
Being a scale, the system tracks your weight loss (or gain) each time you use it, and since you place in your age and height, it tracks your BMI as well. The charts show you how you progress each day, and what your daily exercises levels are, broken down by the various categories.
You can choose a male or female trainer, and the trainer demonstrates the moves visually on the screen while you watch. So for push-ups, the trainer is on the screen, doing them by the book, giving you advice on form and what to do. They tell you just so what muscles you will be effective out. They provide front-and-back views so you can get a better sense of what you're doing, and give audio post as well so you know when to change spot.
There is really a lot of variety here. There are games like hula hoop and walk-the-tightrope to give you some fun. There are uncommon levels of some games you can unlock. You can "go for a run" where you have the Wii controller in your pocket and run (not on the board) in place, while an fascinating scenery scrolls past on the TV. The speed the scenery moves is based on your own running speed, so you can go quicker or more slowly. You can even run with a friend!
You are told NOT to jump on the board and in fact the game will restart a given level if you do, to help make that clear. The board is a scale, as mentioned, and they do their best to have you treat it relatively gently.
You really can work up a sweat if you do harder actions, but there is a LOT in here for the out of shape to start slowly.
Now all of this start said, there are several downsides to this game that they really should have added in.
First, they have lots of small small games - and no way to join them together! You have to track down activity 1. Go through it. Then go back out to the menus and track down activity 2. It can take factually a minute to go between one thing and the other, with lots of button clicking. They should have let you string together "my fitness set" to do this more easily. They do have a "favorites" menu that lets you see the 10 things you do the most, but it's not the same.
Next, they don't recommend anything at all based on your weight / BMI. You are completely on your own to know what to do. You can tell it "I want to lose 20 pounds in 6 months". Fine. It doesn't give you any help or guidance at all. No "hey you lost 20 calories" or "only 10 minutes to go!" You have to make your own plans. Naturally this is what a trainer does for you - so their virtual trainer is pretty a waste of time.
Which goes into another thing a real trainer would help you with - the order of actions. Muscle groups work in combination with each other and you should warm up, then do a combination of actions, then cool down. The Wii Fit has no information at all about this type of training. You could randomly choose things to do that all work out your legs for example and never touch your lower back. You could cause strain on your body by leaping into the higher actions without doing a warm up lower activity. This would have been SO simple for them to build into the system, but they did not.
The scale unit tops out at 330 pounds. I work with many obese people and there are MANY people out there over 330 pounds who this system would have been ideal for. They can't use it. I know someone who was 270 pounds who used this and the system kept giving them errors. I know they can't have an endless weight scale, but something a small higher end would have been very cheering.
To me these things are all "really should place into Translation 2" issues. I will still give WiiFit 5 stars for being a revolutionary entry into the video gaming world - something that can really change lives and help people become more healthy. There are all sorts of other "would be fantastic" enhancement thoughts - for example, if you hooked up a video camera, you could see how YOUR downward facing dog looked, to see if it matched the "trainer" on the screen. That could be hugely caring for people.
WiiFit is certainly a fantastic software package - I wouldn't call it a game - and I highly recommend that everybody get their hands on one if they can. It's a system that appeals to all ages, is healthy for all ages, and is a lot of fun too. |
A Review From A Stout Guy: Get This Game!
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| Review Date: May 22, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Chris right, Portland, OR |
I preordered this from Gamestop after Amazon sold out their preorders. I wasn't disappointed.
I'm stout, and ashamed of it; "clinically obese" would be the term I'd use. My doctor has begged me to get a trainer, but they're pricey; and I despise gyms since they're dull, and out of my way. But I'm a gamer -- I like to sit and play CoD. Exercise is nearly non-existent in my life.
Background up the Fit Board is simple. You slap a few batteries in and sync. The graphics are cute. The music is cute, too. (you can just mute the TV an place on some better music, if you want.)
You set it up by telling the game your height, weight, and let it weigh you. And then tell the game how much weight you want to lose (you can lose up to 22 pounds/cycle, and can edit this every 2 weeks). If you try to lose too much weight too quick, the game cautions you hostile to it, but will allow you to do it. Additionally, the game will allow you to password protect your profile, if you're worried about others finding it.
So, how's the game itself? In a word: fun. Really fun.
The exercises are simple. Step aerobics. Hula hooping. Running. Basic toning exercises (except for the pushup/jackknife. That's killer, man. killer.) Some are annoying (the balance board ones are really fun, but are killer hard for me to get right.)
And you get excellent pointer from the game -- you earn points for each activity, and you can really chart the weight loss through the Wii itself. It's really sweet.
The game is fun. In a excellent way. I've place in an hour already tonight, and I'll take up again to use it tomorrow. This is, by far, the best chance I've had to lose weight in a long, long time.
Get this game if you're looking to exercise in your own home. |
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