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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $162.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  368 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10
Dimensions (in): 20 x 3 x 13
MPN: WI-RVLRRFNE
Model: RVLRRFNE
UPC: 045496901080
EAN: 0045496901080
ASIN: B000VJRU44
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 | | • | Wii Fit also uses the Wii Balance Board for daily tests. These evaluate two key measures that a household can track via progress charts - | | • | Body Mass Index (BMI) - A weight evaluation based on a ratio of weight to height | | • | 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 | | • | 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
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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 Wii Fit Is Definitely One Size Fits All! July 18, 2008
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I got Wii Fit not expecting too much. I thought it might have some games that my kids would like enough to take a break from marathon gaming sessions on the couch. Was I surprised - this thing is fantastic! I'm a middle aged woman with way too many kids and I love it!
Wii Fit consists of a wireless platform and the "game" disc. You must already own a Wii game console to use it. You will also need a fairly large open space in front of your TV in order to do all of the exercises. If you are an older person or someone with balance problems, you'll benefit from a sturdy chair nearby to use for balance during some of the exercises.
The platform is actually a wireless scale with hundreds of little sensors that monitor your constant shifts in balance, as well as your weight. It's the way the platform measures if you are doing an exercise correctly. You have to option of recording your weight at every session but you don't have to - you can go straight to the exercises.
The exercises are divided into 4 categories - yoga, strength training, aerobic and balance training. In general, there are very few reps of each exercise, with a report on how well you performed it immediately following. That gets a little annoying as there is no way to skip through that. Some of the exercises allow you to unlock more reps as you log more time on the program, but not all. The up side to that is that it is perfect for people in less than peak condition to begin an exercise program. As you continue to use the program, you unlock new exercises and/or more difficult versions of the ones you already do. It helps to keep it interesting and progressively more challenging.
You begin by creating a character to represent you and then you input your age and height. Next, the platform weighs you and gives you your BMI. It encourages you to set a realistic goal - weight loss or maintenance of your current weight. Then it asks you to perform 2 balance tests and calculates a fitness "age". From there, you go to training exercises. You select a male or female "trainer", who will coach you through doing each exercise. In many of the exercises, there is a kind of visual bio-feedback on the TV screen that helps you adjust and shift your weight so that you are performing the exercise correctly. At the end of each exercise, you are given a score of 1 to 4 stars and a numerical grade, which is recorded in an area along with other users. Highest grades get a First Place ranking, similar to video game rankings. All of this is designed to record and encourage improvement and it's amazingly effective. We're all a little competitive, I guess!
The basic strategy appears to be to strengthen your core muscles, improve your balance and posture, and then work and tone your muscles in a completely self-paced way. I like that if you are unable to do a particular exercise for whatever reason, you aren't penalized. You don't have to do every exercise in order to unlock new exercises. I think it's a great flexibility that allows a broader range of people to use and benefit from Wii Fit. My mom who has COPD can't do all the aerobics, but she can do much of the yoga and strength training as well as the balance games. My friend's dad can't do some of the more difficult yoga poses due to Parkinson's, but the balance training is almost exactly like the PT he goes to once a week so he is using his Wii Fit daily.
If you are someone who is used to working out heavily several times a week at a gym, I'm not sure you would feel this is worth the investment for a Wii and then the Wii Fit. But then again, you might. For everyone else who knows they need to exercise more or has a sedentary job, this could be just the thing! BTW, the age range of the 6 people using mine is from 5 to 58. How many fitness programs can engage that many different ages and still be fun and effective? I give it a big thumbs up.
 Fun for one, Worthless for family play July 17, 2008
First, I bought this last weekend at Best Buy. They had plenty in stock and it cost around $90. I mention that, because the price currently listed here (almost twice that) made me gasp.
At the time, I had guests and naturally we all wanted to hang out and try the board, which brought its biggest defect immediately to light. It is extremely slow and clumsy as a multi-user platform.
To start with (as others have said) there is an involved setup process where the Wii offers threadbare exercise advice, grunts in pain when you step in the board (I'm not kidding), tells you you're too fat and, should your balance not be perfectly on center, asks whether you trip a lot.
So, OK. That part was fairly amusing. At the end of it, you get a Wii age based on balance, actual age and BMI. Of the five of us who tried it, four came out 15-20 years older than their actual age, and one 13 years younger. I'm not saying which one. Just that all those years of yoga have apparently paid off. :)
That part was amusing too, and it was a one-time investment, so so far s'ok. Now to the games. In this, the WiiFit is very much like the Wii sports package that came with our set originally. The games are slow to load, waste a lot of time in explanations that you can't completely skip, offer one or two quick rounds of play, and then make you wait for cheering crowds, scores to tally, etc. One minute of credited play on the clock (there's a clock-bank tracking how much you've worked out) amounts to about 15 seconds of activity on the board. Personally, I found this tedious. I don't need cheering scores and a hall of fame with little Pikachu noises. I want to reset the game as fast as possible and play again. Can't do it.
That said, the balance games were fun. We tried the tightrope, the soccer (watch out for flying pandas), and the ski-jump, and liked them all.
But here we hit on a nearly insurmountable problem. My sons and I wanted to have fun together. Perfect, right? No. YOU CANNOT USE THE WII-FIT AS A MULTIPLAYER GAME. At least, not with one board. To change players, you have to exit the game, go back to the Wii plaza, change Miis and then do a quick recalibration of the bord. This takes 3-4 minutes, which is just nuts. I thought I'd FINALLY found a physical activity for my family to do together in the home, and we can't do it together!
There is no provision that I found for switching quickly and easily between Miis, a problem that destroyed the fun of the games for us. This is a product killer, as far as I'm concerned. I probably wouldn't have bought it, if I'd known. I doubt we'll take it off the shelf very often.
However, I had some interest in the personal trainer aspect of the Wii, so I gave that a shot, too. I didn't try the strength training. I hate lunges, and don't imagine doing them on the board will make them tolerable, but I did try the yoga, and...sad to say...didn't like it at all. The pace is slow, slow, slow. There is far too much dead time, spent getting lectured by the machine. Conversely, holds on postures are rather long which, I believe, would make them very difficult for beginners. As balance training, the yoga might be OK, but as an asana practice, it's nothing near as effective as a good DVD.
I probably would have given the Wii-Fit 5 stars if they had built in some way for me to use it for group play. It's small, easy to store, and it's a joy to see the kids move something other than their thumbs when playing video games.
As things stand, it's nothing more than a 15 minute novelty and I can only hope somebody will come along and design more multi-player friendly games.
great way to get some exercise July 17, 2008
If you are like my wife and I you just don't have time for a gym. This program is a great way to get exercise everyday at a time convenient to you and to monitor your progress. I am always surprised when I find myself sweating and a little sore when I'm done.
An exercise bike and treadmill are great but really boring and don't work your whole body - Wii Fit does.
Perfect Solution for Hottest Day of the Year! July 17, 2008
My husband surprised me by bringing home a Wii Fit yesterday. This is a guy who has never wanted to work out with me, yet we took turns last night trying our skills a balancing, dodging soccer balls and even Yoga poses. I had so much fun that I woke up this morning at 5AM to play again before getting ready for work. It actually said to me this morning, "my you're up early."
If that's not motivation, I don't know what is. We live in South Louisiana where the heat index yesterday was 103 with humidity that rivals that of the rainforest. It's not conducive to outdoor workouts what-so-ever. For less than the cost of a month of gym membership for both of us, we've got a great tool that actually makes getting some exercise fun in the indoor comfort of one's private living room (also eliminates those embarassing Yoga gafs people fear).
It's not easy, but the challenge is the fun part and opening up a little friendly competition between spouses is a great way to stay motivated and focused on a weightloss goal.
Also, FYI, the pound limit for the US version is 330 lbs. In case the weight limits had folks staying away, apparently Nintendo knows that Americans are a bunch of fatties comparied to other countries.
It's the best Wii toy we've had yet.
Fun for any fitness level July 17, 2008
This is so much fun! Everyone that's tried it loves it. It's amazing how in some of the activities you look like you're hardly moving but you can really feel the workout. I love the personalization, and no, I can't do pushups yet...skip that part....:-). But that's okay. There's plenty more to do.
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