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Wii Fit
Studio : Nintendo
by Nintendo
Brand : Nintendo
Model : RVLRRFNE
Platform : Nintendo Wii
Release Date : 2008-05-21
Publisher : Nintendo
Minimum Age : 5.0 Years
Maximum Age : 20.0 Years
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0045496901080
UPC : 045496365332
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 496 reviews)
List Price : $89.99
Our Price : $133.89
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Lean to block soccer balls, swivel hips to power hoop twirls or balance to hold the perfect yoga pose. As you stand on the Wii Balance Board, included with Wii Fit, your body's overall balance is tied to the game in a way you've never experienced before
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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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Body Mass Index (BMI) - A weight evaluation based on a ratio of weight to height
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Wii Fit Age - The Wii Fit Age is measured by factoring the user's BMI reading, testing the user's center of gravity and conducting quick balance tests
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Wii Fit includes more than 40 types of training activities designed to appeal to all members of a household. Training falls into four fitness categories -
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Product Description |
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Get a great workout right in your home without going to the gym. Nintendo Wii Fit with Wii Balance Board turns your living room into a fitness center for the whole family. 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. Aerobic Exercise - 10-minute exercises that are designed to get your heart pumping Muscle Conditioning - Controlled motions using arms, legs and other body parts Yoga Poses - Classic poses that focus on balance and stretching Balance Games - Fun activities, such as ski jumping and heading soccer balls, that challenge the player's overall body balance |
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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 Balance Board.
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Calculate your BMI and Wii Fit age.
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Enjoy a wide variety of mini-games.
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Follow your own personal trainer.
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Track your progress against 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 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.
Four Categories of Fun
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.
Keep Track of Your Progress
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.
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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I bought this because someone told me to... |
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I own a Wii so I buy everything that people tell me is fun, so I bought this and like everything else I've bought for the Wii it wasn't actually fun but it makes me feel cool to tell people how fun it is. I also like to defend the Wii and Nintendo as they are a very poor and downtrodden company, the real UNDERDOG of videogames. |
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Even a couch potato can love this! |
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I love the Wii Fit, which I've had for about a month. I do still force myself to go to the gym for 45 -60 minutes of cardio at least 3 days a week, have been for a couple of years now, but I hate it. I bought the Wii Fit to try the strength and yoga programs. However, my kids and I (ages 43 and 8 & 9)discovered the balance games first, and we're addicted. I've never been able to make myself do more than a week or so of abdominal exercises, but with these balance games, I have finally started to see results! I am a working mother with kids involved in time consuming activities, so I hit the Wii promising I'll do 10 minutes and so far, I've never been able to stop under 20 minutes, usually I get to 30 minutes. The ski jump and slalom, the table tilt, the bubble and tightrope are all so much fun. Then I unlocked the penguin-I am an educated woman, never thought I would be motivated by disappointing my mii, but when my penguin-suited mii looks dejectedly at the snow, well, it makes me want to try again-and again. I take the Wii Fit tips seriously, have changed the way I walk accordingly, and between this improvement in my posture and the strengthening of my core muscles, my back pains have been all but eliminated (OK, occasionally I sleep wrong requiring an advil, but no longer the all day ache). I am thrilled with this purchase! UNFORTUNATELY, my Wii system had a malfunction, and I am forced to ship the actual Wii to the factory for repair. I am really missing my workout, way more than my kids (who are truly more upset about not having Guitar Hero and Lego's Batman to play than the Wii Fit). I can't wait to get back on track. |
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Wii Fit |
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I won't go over the Wii Fit functions as they have been covered. I will say I am a soon to be 56 year old who is moderately fit. I love the Wii Fit it does challenge me, I have now logged over 60 days and feel great. |
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Flawed but fun |
The Wii fit balance games are fun, but most of the exercises aren't very useful
(unless you're very out of shape)
also many of the exercises like sit ups or running will penalize you for things out of your control...
(like for example not putting your feet on the wii board evenly when returning your feet from a crunch)
as an exercise machine- kinda crap
as a game- quiet fun - not as good as wii sports... but hoping more games will use it otherwise kinda a was of $$$s |
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Ingenious application of mundane technology. |
This is the default software package that comes with the Wii balance board (WBB). From the technology point of view, the WBB is nothing more than a big electronic scale with wireless communication built in. The only data it is capable of sensing are the pressing forces at the four corners, exactly like any $14 scale one can buy from Walmart, although regular scales display only the sum of the forces while the WBB sends all four numbers to Wii.
Once the installation is complete and Wii Fit starts to run, however, the brilliance of this idea becomes apparent. It is, in fact, not a video game. It is a combination of many gym exercises set in a ground-breaking, interactive multimedia environment. Suddenly, the $90 price tag no longer seems expensive once the comparison shifts from $60 game packages to gym memberships that runs in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year.
When I first saw the list of the exercises, I thought they were way too easy, fit for old ladies and couch potatoes only. Once I tried them myself, I realized that one could make them a lot more challenging simply by adhering to the proper forms strictly. Wii Fit therefore provides a fun-filled decent work-out for a surprisingly broad range of users.
As innovative as Wii Fit is, I don't think it deserves 5 stars because of the serious limitation imposed by its rudimentary sensor schema. After all, the only input for the CPU is how the user is balancing on the WBB. This is not a problem for Yoga or Strength Training, but in the Balance Games, cheating is easy and the game play gets tedious really fast. Like I said before, this is not a video game but a fun way to exercise at home. If the user understands this fact, he will find the machine doing a very good job. |
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