Wii Fit Plus (Wii) > Reviews (6)

I’m a fairly healthy person, I eat relatively healthily and run around after the kids all day but since injuring my knee last summer I have been unable to continue with my daily run which I’ve been doing for the last couple of years. To be fair I have only put on a few pounds since stopping running but as I graduate in 3 weeks, and have bought a lovely dress, I wanted to try and shift the extra few pounds. About 3 or 4 weeks ago I decided to buy the Wii Fit Plus. We had a Wii Fit a few years ago and I used it a lot to shift some weight after having my youngest child, and surprisingly it worked. I didn’t think any exercise linked to a games console could possibly work and would be fun more than anything but as I knew it worked the first time, I figured I’d try it again. Being a working mum to two children it is difficult to find time to go to a gym etc, as after work, my time with the children is important. The Wii Fit Plus is the perfect way to be able to exercise in your home (in my case as soon as the children go to bed), and you can have fun along the way too.

The Wii Fit Plus is a new and improved version of the original Wii Fit and contains new exercises and new games, as well as new features. It helps with the ability to help develop bodily balance control, burn fat, help tone and condition muscle and increase aerobic stamina.

Good old features of the original are still available such as checking your weight and BMI (and this is usually fairly accurate to my own scales which surprised me!), your centre of gravity (this affects posture and a good centre of gravity can increase the speed at which you burn calories). You can also still set goals to lose weight and reduce BMI over a period of time that you chose. The Wii Fit also tests your ‘Wii Fit Age’ which should be as close to your real age as possible (mine is currently 4 years younger than my own, yippee!).

There are six new exercises which are added to the original workouts. The improvement that I noticed straight away is it seems to be much quicker to access the exercises and seems to be simplified, so you can start exercising after a few clicks rather than having to read through the sometimes long and never ending narratives that seemed to pop up. You can also now work on set areas of your body (bum, hips or thighs) and do specialised workout routines by adding your favourite exercises to it, or asking the Wii Fit Plus to do it for you. Basically, the Wii Fit Plus has become a customised exercise program just for you. This is perfect if you have a certain area you need to work on. You can also work for a set period of time chosen by you.

Other new features of this game include new balance games and a calorie counter which is quite handy as it adds a MET (Metabolic equivalent) value to each exercise so you can calculate the calories burnt while you work out. This is really handy especially if you have over indulged, and you know you have burnt a certain amount of it off. The random part which I find just a little bizarre is a support feature for cats and dogs!

The Pet Fit Plus allows you to weigh your cat or dog and keep track of their fitness using their own special game profile. Okkkkay then!

My favourite part of the original Wii Fit was the Step exercises within the Aerobic section and it’s nice to see this still here (with new songs!!!). There are also new courses for jogging, as well as 3 new Yoga exercises and 3 new muscle exercises. The game sees 15 new balance games which include cameos from Super Mario. There is also a Segway game which is quite funny, a new cycling game, a snowball fight, a skateboard arena and ‘big top juggling’.

Multiplayer mode allows you to play through a number of games with up to 8 players who take turns to use the one Balance Board. This is a good addition to the original game as my children would often want to play along with me but we would have to log out of whoever’s Mii we were using and log into another player. This allows us all to play along together without the faff of it telling us we weigh different to before (by about 6 stone!) as we switch between adults and children.

Other new features of this game include new balance games and a calorie counter which is quite handy as it adds a MET (Metabolic equivalent) value to each exercise so you can calculate the calories burnt while you work out. This is really handy especially if you have over indulged, and you know you have burnt a certain amount of it off. The random part which I find just a little bizarre is a support feature for cats and dogs! The Pet Fit Plus allows you to weigh your cat or dog and keep track of their fitness using their own special game profile. Okkkkay then!

My favourite part of the original Wii Fit was the Step exercises within the Aerobic section and it’s nice to see this still here (with new songs!!!). There are also new courses for jogging, as well as 3 new Yoga exercises and 3 new muscle exercises. The game sees 15 new balance games which include cameos from Super Mario. There is also a Segway game which is quite funny, a new cycling game, a snowball fight, a skateboard arena and ‘big top juggling’.

Multiplayer mode allows you to play through a number of games with up to 8 players who take turns to use the one Balance Board. This is a good addition to the original game as my children would often want to play along with me but we would have to log out of whoever’s Mii we were using and log into another player. This allows us all to play along together without the faff of it telling us we weigh different to before (by about 6 stone!) as we switch between adults and children.