Wii Fit

Advantages: great for weightloss, fun for all the family, improves posture, balance and health
Disadvantages: expensive, can only register up to 8 family members

...Our Wii Fit was brought as a birthday present for my 9 year old brother, although to be honest it was probably more of a gift to us!! What is a 'Wii Fit'? Before explaining what a Wii Fit is, I will explain the equipment you will need for it. The Wii Fit works on a Nintendo Wii - the Wii is a games console, which uses a handheld remote for interactive play (simulating tennis etc). In addition to the games console you will need a Wii Fit balance board. This can be used with other games such as skiing etc but will initially be purchased with the Wii Fit software. The Wii fit balance board is a rectangular board, which the user stands on, and it links up wirelessly to the Wii and is used to improve health through balance games, muscle and yoga poses and aerobic exercise games. The Wii fit balance board measures and monitors...

ilusvm 29.10.2008 · Read review
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Wii Fit

Advantages: Easy way to keep fit.
Disadvantages: Can't think of any.

...Last Christmas, my mum (a.k.a. "Santa") got the family a Wii Fit - hinting at my sister and I that we need to keep fit. I'm going to admit, I'm a bit fat. Now, I'm not one of those people you see in documentaries who can't get out of bed because they're huge but I could stand to lose a stone or two. I used to go to the gym twice a week but I found it too difficult and it was straining keeping up with my trainer, and I felt embarassed whenever I told him I couldn't do something. I did lose about half a stone though so I was happy about that. When I started using the Wii fit I was a bit anxious about trying it out because it had been a while since I'd been to the gym and I wasn't too keen to let my family see how unfit I was! However, I've been using it on-and-off since Christmas and it's great! It's been about a month since I last used it...

tb240904 02.10.2009 · Read review
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Better that Wii Fit but ........

Advantages: A great improvement on Wii Fit
Disadvantages: You need to be self motivated to stick with it

...I bought Wii Fit last year and have now used it for over 400 hours so I guess you could say I have had my money's worth out of it. I do like it but it has its shortcomings not least of which is the fact that it takes a long time to work through a routine so I was pleased when I heard that Nintendo were bringing out a new versions and I wanted to see what that offered. Wii Fit Plus is intended to overcome some of the shortcomings and to allow you to plan a whole routine rather than do it piecemeal and have to wait between exercises. I preordered mine via Amazon where you buy Wii Fit Plus for just £17.99 if you already have the Wii Balance Board or £79.99 with the Balance Board. As this is a full product review I will outline everything that it does which does include everything on the original Wii Fit so if you already have Wii...

laramax 01.11.2009 · Read review
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Keeping fit

Advantages: something different, fun for all
Disadvantages: doesn't exactly count as a weight-loss program

...The Wii Fits? sounds and music are average. The music ranges from up-beat tempo workout songs to new style tunes. If the player is using the Wii Fit to improve their fitness they will be wearing an MP3 player or IPOD so they can listen to their own style of music while working out. There are some specific audio cues for certain exercises and games that must be followed in order to score well but if the player is participating in these they will more than likely have turned their MP3 off so that they can hear. There is some in-game speech as well, from your on-screen personal trainer. Once the trainer walks you through the exercise, most of what is said after that is pretty much repeated most of the time. Some of what is said doesn?t even really have any bearing to what you?re doing at that moment in time. The sounds and music are by no...

Yiazmat 31.07.2009 · Read review
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Family Fitness

Advantages: Fun for the family
Disadvantages: None

...The first thing I noticed, when I opened the box, was the great hardware build quality. To me, the balance board has always looked very fragile in promotional pictures. I've seen people waving it around willy nilly so I thought it would just be lightweight plastic tat. It's actually a really sturdy, well made piece of equipment. You connect it to the Wii like a wiimote and the software also installs a special Wii Fit channel on the main menu. So, onto the Wii Fit software. As with Nintendo's other games, your profile is saved under your Mii. It's just like Brain Training with a daily test, complete with a slightly abstract body age which seems completely based on your ability to shift your weight around. During the test your Mii's physique is adjusted to match your BMI. This was hilarious as my little guy was inflated to become a fat...

parkiboy 27.01.2009 · Read review
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Wii Fit

Advantages: Healthy, Loses weight, Fun
Disadvantages: None

...Nintendo Wii Fit (Wii Fit) I got Wii fit on Christmas day 2008 and ever since I have not got off it. I am a really big gamer and when I bought the Wii i thought it wasn't going to be good and it wasn't that good as the Xbox 360 or the PlayStation 3, but when I got Wii Fit for it I have been playing it one hour a day every day. I do all kinds of exercises on it. Including Jogging, Push up's, Step aerobics and many more. It really is a good way of excerising because it is fun and you don't even know that you are excerising! Whats in the box... In the Wii Fit box there is not too much, there is a Wii fit balance board, Wii fit Wii game, Four AA Batteries and Manuals. What games is there on the Wii Fit game... There is all sorts of games on the Wii Fit, there is boxing, jogging, Push ups, side ups, step aerobics and many more...

Deoborahkelly196 05.10.2009 · Read review
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Wii Fit

Advantages: Helps you lose weight, tracks your progress
Disadvantages: You need quite a bit of space for the balance board

...As someone who has a bad back, and could also stand to lose a few pounds in weight, I finally gave in and bought the wii fit. Basically, all it consists of is a balance board and CD with the Wii Fit activities on it. Like the Nintendo Wii controllers it is completely wireless which is great for storage, when you finish you can just slot it under your bed or in a cupboard. To start off you create a character for yourself in the Wii Fit Plaza, which is based off your Mii. The main idea is to have a daily body test which charts your weight, bmi, wii fit age etc and then go on to do some training in the form of either balance, aerobic, muscle exercise or yoga. This is kind of embarrassing, especially for me when my mii suddenly got a lot fatter! After completing the body test you are given a wii fit age, which you aim to reduce by...

tor0908 12.06.2009 · Read review
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wii fit

Advantages: weight loss or weight gain depending on what you choose to do. very fun games!
Disadvantages: its not entirely accurate, can strain yourself if you over do it.

...The Wii fits main aim was to motivate families to get up and exercise together, making it more enjoyable for children and adults. It was also to be seen as an insentive to exercise and stay healthy and help keep a steady BMI (body mass index). Wii fit is an amazing game in which you as a user can stand on the Wii balance board and interact with the game. The balance board is like a set of scales it can determin your weight and which is your most dominant foot. But its not just a set of scales it senses every movement you make so that the Wii can then calculate your Wii fit age and keep you interacted in whatever game you are playing. The Wii fit game comes with many games to play. You start of with a few activites to do but the more you progress on with game the more you unlock ,making exercise much more harder and making it a fun...

hypermusician 12.08.2009 · Read review
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Wii Mii Gets fit

Advantages: Great for the whole family, fun, easy to use, amazing concept
Disadvantages: Board can become a little uncomfortable on your feet

...Who would have thought that excercise using a games consol would ever be presented to us, and who could imagine that it could be so much fun. The wii fit is a revolutionary product brought to us by the Nintendo Wii (watch out, you need to have the console), that allows the entire family to become involved in a new health and fitness regime and what's best of all - you don't even have to leave the house for this programme to benefit you. The wii fit provides users with four different fitness categories to include Yoga, Muscle workouts, aerobics and balance. Using a combination of each of the activities - there are 40 in total between the 4 categories - that can help to stretch and tone those muscles, burn fat and improve your balance. Not all of the excercises in each of the categories are unlocked so the more excercise you take...

stillclueless 14.01.2009 · Read review
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Wii Fit

Advantages: The Balance Board technology is outstanding
Disadvantages: It can be quite expensive

...Intro Wii Fit is something quite difficult to review. But people think that playing things like Wii Fit, is doing them good. Like take Brain Training, it would make you smarter, or something like Guitar Hero would make them feel like rockstars. But does Wii Fit actually make you fit? I think yes. It does make you fit. It does actually work! Like balancing on the Balance Board improves your posture and balance. Muscle exercises grows and tightens your muscles. Aerobics games make you lose weight. Which in fact it does. But personally, I went jogging for 20 minutes and it said I GAINED one pound. Which must be a glitch, if you ask me. And today, Wii Fit costs £69.99 ($89.99) which may be a little on the pricey side. But amusing if you can afford it, it is so much worth to buy and helps you stay much in great shape. It's so very worth...

UKJaguar 16.07.2009 · Read review
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