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- Platform: Nintendo Wii
- ESRB Rating:
Everyone - Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Description
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The active-play phenomenon started by Wii Sports now spreads to your whole body thanks to Wii Fit and the pressure-sensitive Wii Balance Board, which comes bundled with it. Used together players will experience an extensive array of fun, dynamic and surprisingly challenging activities, including aerobics, yoga, muscle stretches and balance oriented games. The focus of these activities is towards providing a "core" workout, a popular exercise method that emphasizes slower, controlled motions, but it's the fun approach to fitness of Wii Fit that will keep players hooked on fitness for years to come.
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 unnaturally compensating for this imbalance, which causes their posture to become misaligned, increasing the possibility of putting unnecessary strain on their bodies. This is where the Wii Balance Board comes in.Similar in appearance to a step aerobics board, the Wii Balance Board is much, much more. Easily capable of supporting weights up to a maximum of 300 pounds, it is sturdy and precise, able to measure weight and register pressure accurately when placed on a variety of flat surfaces. This advanced level of sensitivity allows for both the wide range of activities found in the Wii Fit software as well as the board's amazing ability recognize individual players by their weight alone.Getting Started: Create a Profile
Before you jump into doing exercises and activities, you’ll start by creating 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:
Once you have created your profile it's time to have some fun. Wii Fit features 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 personal 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 additional exercises and activities within your favorite categories that will allow you to continue to push yourself. See more detail on the four categories below:
Because keeping fit is an ongoing process, Wii Fit also tracks the activities you do the most and puts them into your Favorites category. With this information players can note exercises and activities that they are strong in, as well as others that may need to improve at. Some of the ways players can use this information for are to:
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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 unnaturally compensating for this imbalance, which causes their posture to become misaligned, increasing the possibility of putting unnecessary strain on their bodies. This is where the Wii Balance Board comes in.Similar in appearance to a step aerobics board, the Wii Balance Board is much, much more. Easily capable of supporting weights up to a maximum of 300 pounds, it is sturdy and precise, able to measure weight and register pressure accurately when placed on a variety of flat surfaces. This advanced level of sensitivity allows for both the wide range of activities found in the Wii Fit software as well as the board's amazing ability recognize individual players by their weight alone.Getting Started: Create a Profile
Before you jump into doing exercises and activities, you’ll start by creating 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 measure of body fat based on height and weight that is the standard used by agencies such as the World Health Organization and the National 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 current Wii Fit Age. This basic balance test measures how well you can control your left and right balance. Based on the results, you’ll be assigned a Wii Fit Age.
Once you have created your profile it's time to have some fun. Wii Fit features 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 personal 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 additional exercises and activities within your favorite categories that will allow you to continue to push yourself. See more detail on the four categories below:
- Strength Training: Put 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 include 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, Advanced Step, 2-P Run, Rhythm Boxing, Free Step and Free Run.
- Yoga: Work on your balance and flexibility with Yoga poses and activities 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.
Because keeping fit is an ongoing process, Wii Fit also tracks the activities you do the most and puts them into your Favorites category. With this information players can note exercises and activities that they are strong in, as well as others that may need to improve at. Some of the ways players can use this information for are to:
- Keep tabs on your daily progress with easy-to-understand graphs and charts. Using your personal 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 little every day, and the personal profile makes tracking your daily progress simple and easy.
- Quickly check your Wii Fit Age and BMI without even putting the game in the console by going directly to the Wii Fit Channel.
- Allow up to eight family members can create their own profiles in Wii Fit. On the profile-selection screen, everyone in the family can see each other’s recent BMI progress and Fit Credit total. This will allow families to have a friendly competition to exercise and get fit.
Product Description
The hit combination of Wii Sports and the Wii Remote brought golf swings and tennis serves into people's homes. Now Nintendo turns the living room into a fitness center for the whole family with Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board. Family members will have fun getting a "core" workout, and talking about and comparing their results and progress on a new channel on the Wii Menu. Lean to block soccer balls, swivel hips to power hoop twirls or balance to hold the perfect yoga pose. As users stand on the Wii Balance Board, included with Wii Fit, their body's overall balance is tied to the game in a way they've never experienced before. Wii Fit also uses the Wii Balance Board for daily tests. These evaluate two key measures that a household can track via progress charts:
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113 of 117 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wii Fit is useful for novice to expert.,
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Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
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I think everyone knows what wii fit is essentially so I'll skip that part more or less and concentrate on what's good and what's not so good.It's separated into strength training, aerobics, yoga, and games. In each area you start with a select number of movements or exercises. As you progress and perform the activities well, you unlock more activities and more reps. I think this is a good idea for most people. Whereas I am familiar with all the strength training exercises and could perform them all well, with the yoga, I am completely in the dark, and if they were all open at once I wouldn't even know where to begin. So it's good to keep things simple at first and assume everyone is a complete novice. You start off by doing a body composition test first. You enter your height and DOB and it weighs you. It also measures your centre of balance and tells you if you're slouching one way or the other which could cause back or other problems, sometimes unknowingly. It gives you your BMI and and tells you if you're obese, overweight, normal, or underweight. and then tells you your weight. On to the exercises. Strength training is exactly what it sounds like. Although you aren't using weights, I'm not naive or uneducated enough to think you can't get a decent workout without weights. Bodyweight exercises are totally undervalued and there are some decent ones in here. Obviously, a person can get to a point where they want to add weights instead of endlessly doing more reps. But this is a great starting point for most people and even for those who are more experinced, it introduces something that most people overlook and what is at constant theme with the game. Balance. While exercising, the balance board constantly monitors your balance, and in turn monitors your form. I know when doing squats, most people instinctively put their weight on the balls of their feet. But you should be pushing off with your weight driving from your heels and hips. And sure enough, Wii Fit shows you where to keep your weight distributed with a little on screen graphic while you're squatting. I didn't think a Balance Board could monitor form so well, but it does. Aerobics consists of, well, aerobic activity. There are step aerobics, which works foot eye coordination I guess. I suck at dancing and therefore sucked at this too. It didn't seem to be very challenging from an aerobic standpoint though. There's also hula hoop which was, surprisingly, kinda fun and it did get the heart pumping a bit. Basically simulates hula hoops and they keep adding more hoops. There's also jogging. I do a lot of running so it didn't really tax me too much but I could see how it could be challenging to a newcomer. You put the wii mote in your back pocket or hold it and run in place. It's kind of cool as you run through a virtual world. I think I might try running on the treadmill next time for a better simulation to see how that goes. There is also boxing, but I haven't unlocked it yet. As far as aerobics goes, I don't feel like it was challenging enough. When I finish my conditioning I like to be sucking wind and I didn't feel that way with this, but I'm just starting. So we'll see how tough it gets as time goes by. Yoga, I am a total novice in. I've always wanted to try it as flexibility is the one thing lacking in my exercise routine. I've just never found time for it on my own and didn't feel like joining a class or anything. So being a complete novice, I can say that Wii Fit presents a really good introduction to yoga. The balance board is perfect for this as a big part of yoga is balance and when you're doing a yoga movement wrong, you can immediately see why it's not working as the board tells you where your balance is. It might sound confusing but is very intuitive once you try it. Games is the final section and it pretty self explanatory. It is a games area which uses the balance board to compete in various mini games. As usual, balance is key. There are ski jumping, ski and snowboard slaloms, heading soccer balls, table tilt - where you shift your balance to get balls into holes and Tightrope tension - The player must cross a tightrope avoiding the snapjaws. At least those are the ones I've unlocked. The tightrope is a little frustrating, but the rest are a lot of fun, especially the skiing and snowboarding. I played last night and before I knew it, I had logged almost 40 mins. Was I dog tired? no. but it wasn't a bad workout and it was fun. And one of the most important parts is, it makes you want to do it again. Maybe I am biased because I always like to be doing some type of exercise, but I can see people being motivated to continue this. But for some people I guess, nothing will make them get off the couch and stick to any exercise for more than a week. So be it. One of the cool features I like about Wii Fit aside from the exercises themselves is how you track your progress. You are encouraged to do a body composition test everyday. I know some diet programs tell you to only weigh yourself once a week but I've always thought that was BS as your body fluctuates weight so much that's it's hard to tell if you've really lost weight or gained it by 1 reading in a week. When I used to train a lot, I would weight myself everyday as I passed the big Mettler Toledo scale at the gym. You could see how your weight fluctuates from day to day and you get a clearer understanding of what you weigh and if you're are really gaining or losing the way you want. Sometimes if you really pig out, a couple days later, you see that weight gain and and are conscious of it. Also if you know you are weighing yourself everyday, you might be more likely to not eat that extra cookie or whatever as you know you have to get on the scale later. Of course some people can get obsessive about it and muscle DOES weight more than fat, but that's another topic for another day. After you do your weigh in, you can do a couple random balance tests and then Wii Fit will use your BMI and the balance tests to give you your Wii Fit Age. Now here's where I draw some criticism. It uses the BMI fine. But then it uses 2 random balance exercises. I did 2 that I wasn't great at and it tells me my wii fit age was 40. The next day my weight was essentially the same and I did 2 other balance tests that I did well at and it gives me an agr of 29. From what I can tell, it doesn't base your fit age on anything other than your bmi and the balance tests. I think it would be much better if it took into account your progress at the the exercises and how much exercise time you put in. Maybe it does take them into account but not nearly as much as the 2 balance tests. It is a mild criticism, but a criticism nonetheless. I think the tracking ability of Wii Fit is one of it's biggest plusses. When you're trying to lose or gain weight, it's good to do it the proper way. And the proper way often means incremental changes over time. If you lose a 1 pound a week, like watching a clock, it is hard to see it notice anything happen. But if you can go back and look at a graph and see after 4 months that you've lost 16 pounds, it looks a lot more significant and tangible to see how far you've come. And tracking yourself is a great way to keep yourself accountable. The only other major drawback I have is that it doesn't have any pre set workouts. You do an activity, then either retry or quit and go back to the menu to pick another. It would be good to have some preset workouts that included elements of each section into a seamless, complete workout. This would be really advantageous to the novice. Also, I know how to put a workout together but it would be nice to be able to create my own workouts that could be saved and done in rapid succession. Even with these 2 drawbacks, I think Wii Fit is worth it. If you look at the other garbage that is being peddled out there for more money, I think this is a bargain. True, you COULD do all of these exercises without Wii Fit, but the big question is, Would you?
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Athletic? This isn't for you! But for the rest of the world...,
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Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Wii Fit (Video Game)
This game is not aimed at the already atheletic. It's aimed at the inactive and younger kids to get them to start having that activity in their life.If your an already athletic person, or someone who exercises then likely this isn't for you. If your a couch potato wanting to start being more active but not wanting to go to a gym for whatever reason then this might be something you should look into trying. As your it's target audience.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for those looking for some self-improvement while having FUN,
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Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Wii Fit (Video Game)
Finally a game you can play without feeling guilty about wasting time.I'm not sure how useful this is for somebody's who's already pretty fit since the exercises won't really strain you for long. For those who aren't fit, I'd say this is a wonderful way to get to start liking exercising. Hopefully it'll lead you to eventually doing much more. If it can even get you off the couch for 20min a day for a very long time, then this is a no brainer investment. I'm very much looking forward to other games that take advantage of this balance board/scale. Kudos to Nintendo for innovating yet again and leading the way for families.
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