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Nintendo
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List Price: £69.99
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Audience Rating: Exempt Binding: Video Game Brand: Nintendo EAN: 0045496901080 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Nintendo Manufacturer: Nintendo Model: RVLRRFNE Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Nintendo Wii Publication Date: 2008-04-30 Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: 2008-04-25 Studio: Nintendo |
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Product Description Designed to help you become more aware of your physical condition, Wii Fit invites you to have fun and get healthy in the process. With exercises that focus on helping you to improve balance and posture, change your Body Mass Index or simply relax, Wii Fit uses the latest technology to assist you in leading a healthier lifestyle. The first step is putting your feet on the state-of-the-art Wii Balance Board in order to get an overview of your present fitness level. By measuring your BMI (Body Mass Index), analysing your centre of gravity and calculating your athletic ability via a couple of simple tests, the software determines your Wii Fit Age - a measure unique to the game which could range from 2 to 99. Wii Fit features more than 40 different exercises across four areas of training. Burn calories with the Aerobic Exercises, work on your balance and posture with the Balance Games, bulk up with the Muscle Workouts or learn to stretch and relax with the Yoga poses. Featuring everything from Step Basics to Snowboarding, Rhythm Boxing to Jogging, Wii Fit offers a vast range of entertaining activities that will keep you interested in working out and encourage the rest of the family to give it a try. To help you keep track of your progress, Wii Fit includes a special Wii Fit Channel that allows up to eight people to store and compare their personal fitness profiles, and also takes account of any exercise done away from the Wii Balance Board - ensuring you have an accurate overview of your fitness. And when you do make progress, you won't only be able to see it represented by a graph, but by the changing waistline of your chosen Mii character. Take the first step on the road to a healthier lifestyle with Wii Fit!
Amazon.co.uk 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. View larger. |  Calculate your BMI and Wii Fit age. View larger. |  Enjoy a wide variety of mini-games. View larger. |  Follow your own personal trainer. View larger. |  Track your progress against friends. View larger. | The Wii Fit Balance Board The primary tenet of Wii Fit is balance. Your centre 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 centre 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 favourite 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 Triceps’ 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 Favourites 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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    Fun, 2010-03-10 An essential if you own a Wii. Great fun and works out those leg muscles.
    Excellent to keep fit in the comfort of your home!, 2010-01-21 Brilliant game and has really changed the way of Gaming.
Im a fitness freak myself and spend most of my time at the gym - however I also use WII fit on resting days to keep myself going.
All the games are fun and really get you working out - its very motivational too and keeps track of your progress.
I highly recommend to anyone, any age looking to keep fit.
    great product, 2010-01-21 great thing for the wii, now wii fit plus is much better but the board is still the same just the game has been upgraded with better features, great scales and fun way to keep fit, i use it for yoga as i suffer from back problems and my phiso has said since i have used it my back has been much better. It is not a replacement for excercise but a great thing to start the day and warm up and track your weigh and bmi
    Good to get you going...., 2010-01-27 I have wanted a Wii Fit for a long time and was lucky enough to get one for Christmas. I've used it quite a bit since receiving it however have found that there are both positives and negatives to it.
Firstly I have found the concept of the balance board brilliant. I also received a snowboarding game which can be used with the balance board and it is great fun. I use the board regularly with the EA Active workout game I have and find that it has enhanced my workout. I find the game supplied with the Wii fit board to be useful for checking on your progress and seeing how exercise is improving your BMI and your balance (it measures your centre of gravity and suggest balance exercises to help correct this).
The only bad thing I've really found with the Wii Fit is the game itself. Whilst it is useful to find out your BMI and track progress as part of an exercise programme none of the games or exercises on there have particularly motivated me. The games and exercises on the supplied programme are too much like games for my liking, I like to feel like I've had a good a workout and I don't particularly when using this game. On the flip side this is brilliant for those people who don't really like exercising as the programme is based more round a series of mini games and 'exercises' where can pick which ones to do and when. I have been told that the Wii Fit plus game addresses some of this and so I may be having a look at this.
All in all I find the Wii Fit excellant and although I don't particularly like the game supplied this is my personal preference and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the Wii Fit to anybody considering in buying one.
    Wii (I am so) Fit, 2010-02-17 This has got to be the best accessory for this console - it allows you to do so many things and I cannot remember the last day when someone from our family has not used it for either a regular game or to do their exercises. If you haven't got one already - then you need to get one as soon as you can to further enhance your Wii experience.
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