Sep
Wii Fit Review
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
Wii Fit Reviews
5 Stars
WiiFit
The WiiFit is the best portable training system. Forget the expensive gyms with the economic situation. With the WiiFit, you can have your own personal trainer and enjoy your workouts again. Earning new Yoga Poses and new activities is great! You can also track your fitness goals and receive encouragement as you progress. I highly recommend the WiiFit. It offers a variety of workout options and the ability for us grown-ups to be silly with our workout!
5 Stars
Love Wii Fit!
Wii Fit is so much fun for all who play. Every age enjoys it. We improve our balance and work on aerobics. The yoga is fun and the strength exercises are hard! Decent work out while having a ton of fun. Just waiting on the new games to come out!
5 Stars
Wii Fit
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.
4 Stars
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.
3 Stars
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
