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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy New: £92.00
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Rating:  72 reviews
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Color: Avocado
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10
Dimensions (in): 20.5 x 13.3 x 3.1
MPN: WI-RVLRRFNE
Model: RVLRRFNE
UPC: 045496901080
EAN: 0045496901080
ASIN: B000VJRU44
Release Date: April 25, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| • | Developer - Nintendo | | • | Minimum age - 3 years | | • | Game setting - Contemporary / Realistic | | • | Multiplayer mode - Yes |
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Product Description
Wii Fit has been designed to be enjoyed by the whole family. Wii Fit willenable everyone in the family to combine fitness with fun. Wii Fit comesbundled with the Balance Board, an accessory developed exclusively for theWii console. Wii Fit will help everyone in the household to increase there awareness of theimportance that fitness plays in everyday life, keeping yourself and familymotivated for the fun fitness it offers to users. Wii Fit offers 3 key additions toyour household, know your physique , train yourself, check your progress. Wii Balance Board The Wii Balance Board is a pressure sensitive, wireless balance board that isplaced on the floor ? so someone can stand on it in front of the TV. The Wiibalance board senses weight and shift in balance in any direction, and so bysimply standing on the Wii board during activities allows players to followalong to movements ensuring they have control of the on-screen activities.Know your physique: Wii fit will allow you to check and monitor 3 areas of your physique, BMI (bodymass index), centre of gravity & then set your goals, against these areas. TheBMI test measures your weight / height. Wii Fit will take this measurementand let you know how you fair in comparison to the ideal. Once you are awareof your BMI you can set goals to reduce this measurement, by take part in theWii Fit exercises and introducing a healthier lifestyle. Your centre of gravity ismeasured via the Wii Fit age test in which you will take on various balance inan attempt to keep you Wii Fit age as close to or lower than you real age. Train Yourself: Wii Fit contains 4 training categories Aerobic Exercises,Muscle conditioning, Yoga and Balance Games. All thetraining categories are designed to help develop bodilybalance control, burn fat, help tone and condition muscle, aswell increase aerobic stamina. All these great activities offera fun way to get fit with your family.Ther
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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 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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An exspensive package, but worth it in the end April 25, 2008
T. Clarke (UK)
79 out of 91 found this review helpful
After months of waiting, Wii Fit finally arrived at this proud persons home today after weeks of agony! In Japan, it made record sales for the sheer speed by which it sold, but could it be as successful over here?
Upon opening the package, look out for the small yellow sticker on the top flap, advising you to take out the card-sandwich that contains the CD-Box, manuals, and batteries first. After doing so, you can carefully take out the Balance Board.
The first thing you'll notice when you receive, or find the package is the sheer weight and size of it. Adverts don't do any justice to hold solidly build the Wii Balance board, or its size! I'm actually quite flummoxed as to where i'm going to keep it, but then I realised because we have glass TV stand, it can just about slot under the bottom shelf quite neatly. The board is excellently made and is well designed - the top surface unfortunately does attract the odd bit of muck from peoples feet, so I would advise you to just rub off any fluff of your feet from the carpet before getting on it. Their are 2 slight depressions where your feet are supposed to be placed, and have a textured surface so you can feel it.
Many of you are probably wondering whats so special about this board, and quite rightly so - little promotion has been given out as to it's capabilities. But basically, the Balance Board is like a digital-weighing scale, except their are pressure sensors all over the board, detecting 'where' you're shifting weight. This means that your body position can be monitored directly to the Wii, and on the screen. And because it's digital, their are absolutely no moving parts, and nothing is mechanised. Upon stepping on it, it feels just like you're standing on some soft tiles in a posh gym.The Balance Board connects via Bluetooth just like your Wii Motes. The Bluetooth also means you can place the board anywhere in your home and it'll still give a read out to the Wii.
This brings me onto a discussion some have been wondering about - does it work on thick carpets? Yes it does - the feet on the balance board are loose and account for absorption. In English, this means they absorb unnecessary build up in the carpet. And obviously, its common sense 'not' to place this on a rug...
Once you've put the disc into the Wii and let it load up, you'll be asked to put the batteries into the bottom of the board, and sync it to the console. The button used to sync it, with its cool blue L.E.D, is also the Power button, just as you would press any button on the Wii Remote to connect it to the console.
Now you're almost ready to get Wii Fit-ting! (if their is such an adjective!) All you need to do now is register yourself, and any other members of your family/friends using your Mii's. You start by choosing your Mii, to which you are then greeted by a wacky, but friendly 3-D version of your Balance Board which has come to life on the game. He will talk to you all about the board (to which he is talking about himself - he wants you to think the board you are standing on is him... if you catch my drift...) and gives a great in depth analysis into common physical problems we encounter in every day life. I found this great and really opened my eyes to things we take for granted, like slouching!
But obviously, you need to give some information to this 'Balance Board' guy so he can "get to know you". Once you've entered your height, date of birth, and weight (done automatically) you are asked to do a few simple tests. Nothing major - just a few balance tests, shifting your weight left and right, which helps determine a simple 'Wii Fit Age'.
And without further a do, you're ready to get going. The Wii Fit Plaza is your centre menu for all activities, and is very simple to use. Using the + and - buttons on your remote, you can shift between all the avail categories, from Yoga to funner balancing activities. I would just like to point out that not all the activities are available upon first playing the game. You need to gain pennies for your 'FitBank' - a cross between a Piggy Bank and well... the amount of minutes you play an activity! The more minutes, the more coins, and the more you unlock. If you're a fit person like myself (not boasting.. honest!) then you'll have no problem in spending long periods on such exercises as Jogging. But much of the activities available take a long time to get used to.
Their are roughly just over 40 activities available, spread out through the categories. As I said, patience is a huge virtue, and this is all part of correcting your balance. Such as the Skiing game; you may be inclined to keep leaning left and right aggressively, but just as in real life, you only need small movements. Yet its these small movements, combined with the length with you keep that position in, which helps improve your flexibility.
But then their are activities you can instantly take to, such as jogging. By placing your Wii Remote into a 'tight' (to get the best reading) pocket by your thigh, you can go for a jolly little jog on an Island in the game. Their is even a map in the manual!! Depending on the distance you decide to take, you can go different routes, which is really nice. Also... look out for a range of hidden characters running about, and little pictures of 8-Bit NES characters dotted around the island... their are 15 in total, i've only found 1!
It is the Yoga section which makes up the most of the starting activities available, which is probably to encourage Mr (or Mrs) Blobby to have a damn good work-out! I've been really impressed by it all; the layout, the ease of use, and the friendliness. In fact, my best point is the way your trainer (you can choose either female or male) is in no way patronising. They encourage you, and talk with a nice clean accent, but not so clean that they talk like Royal. A part which got me and the family cracking up was when I was doing some push-ups, and I had to leave to scratch my back. Suddenly, my trainer on the TV said "Hey! Where do you think you're going? Aren't you here any more?" So funny! But a great touch - it shows Nintendo have thought of everything.
The Balance Board doesn't just have to be leaned on. In the Tight Rope excercise, you scale to buildings via a rope my tip-toeing on the board! And then leaning left and right obviously to keep your balance. Believe me.. its tenser than it sounds!
The difficulty which surrounds many of these activities can only be overcome through getting used to the Balance Board - it doesn't mean your balance is awful. One such game is one in which you must place a selection of balls into holes on a board, which is up in the air. Using the balance board, you must move the board around the get the balls in the holes. It's surprisingly a real challenge, yet we've become addicted to it!
If you're going to take this seriously enough to use every day to get in shape, then a number of options help make this as authentic as going to the gym.. almost. You can set your deadlines by which you must achieve a goal, and can "personally" (using the Wii Remote) stamp the calendar! Or if you're a bit shy about your weight, a password option is available so others can't know of how you're doing. Their is also a Wii Fit Channel - once you've downloaded it off the disc, you can access training results and take a simple body test "without" the Balance Board. A neat touch which nicely rounds this fantastic package up.
So there we are. Do I recommend this? I'm going to be completely honest and as blunt as possible to get the point, and it doesn't bother me if people disagree - its only the truth. This package isn't 'really' a toy. The options available and the direction of goal-related tasks, plus the sheer amount of work-out exercises makes this a package more suitable for someone, like myself, who just want's to work out in their own home with a bit of fun added to it. Therefore, I can't see this appealing to the average 7/8 year old who just wants it because it looks like a funky gadget. Indeed, it is, but it's much more maturer than just a game. But for such a hefty price, this shouldn't be confused with being a 'childs' toy, but more for the family, and older members. The fact that such a importance is placed on improvement, and comparing your stats to other, suggests this package is aimed truly at getting you in shape, and is nothing like a gimmick of any sort.
I find the current RRP price of this package quite cheeky especially when in the USA, the mark up will be 90 dollars (50 quid) at the most, and thats a fact. Unfortunately, such things as VAT and other expenses makes this quite exspensive, but I believe if you have the time, and you're old enough to appreciate the value of such an incredible device with the work-out games included.. PLUS the fact you're having a laugh at the same time, this is money well spent. But for me, an even more important fact is the future potentinal which this board possesses... I just can't wait for the future titles!
Does this spell the end for the gym??? May 1, 2008
K. Waugh (Scotland)
52 out of 53 found this review helpful
Well, I've had my Wii Fit for a week now and I'm still as hooked. Infact, as you unlock more features the more you use it, I'm even MORE impressed than I was when I got it, and that's saying something!
If you are considering the Wii Fit because you want to lose some weight, or tone up, or improve your fitness, then I can say without fear that this WILL provide you with all you need to achieve your goal. Whatever your current activity level, Wii Fit has something to help you improve.
I was concerned that perhaps this would be a 'token gesture' of a fitness game. It isn't. This is the real thing and Nintendo should be congratulated on not just throwing out a quick fitness gimmick, but on taking the time to really cover all aspects of fitness.
Not only have I used this every day, but I wake up looking forward to my next shot! I spend time working on my posture and balance - which is built into some great games but which are also very insightful, and a bit of an eyeopener. The Balance Board is so well created that, in seconds, it was able to tell a friend of mine that he slouches, has terrible posture, and explained exactly what he was doing wrong, and how he could correct it. It was absolutely bang on.
I then spend time doing some aerobic activity, like jogging, hula hoops (great for the hips, thighs, and bum), and step dance. This lot will have you sweating every bit as much as a trip to the gym. But it's great fun too!
I can then spend some time on toning up with the help of my personal trainer. And to cool down, I do some yoga... something I have never even considered before but which I'm enjoying. The board is so sensitive that it really ensures you achieve the correct technique.
This is a real workout, every bit as productive as a trip to the gym. I have a gym membership and, when I manage to drag myself up there, I do enjoy it. The problem is I don't drag myself up there enough. Maybe I've only a couple of hours before I start work; maybe it's rush hour and I can't be bothered getting stuck in traffic; maybe it's raining. There's always a reason not to go.
The beauty of Wii Fit is it's waiting for you, right in your livingroom, whenever you want it. It's fun, it's inventive, it's personal and gives real time feedback. Forget the gym. Forget your workout video. Wii Fit WILL get you into shape, and you'll love every second!
Addicted already.... April 25, 2008
Browneyes01 (London England)
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
Wow. My Wii fit arrived about two hours ago, and I have just stepped off.
This is fantastic, and really encourages you to get fit. The games are designed so cleverly that you want to stay on the board until you improve your score. It makes you want to try and try again. My partner is as hooked as I am which is great, as we can now get fit together, which is what I wanted. The only downside to the game that I can see, is that it doesn't give you warm up exercises to do, which means you have to know how to warm up. Still gets five stars and a thumbs up from me though....
 I applaud the idea May 2, 2008
Marko (Southampton, UK)
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
I've given Wii Fit 4 stars as I really do appluad the idea of getting whole households active but for me, unfortunately, my enthusiasm faded quickly. My girlfriend on the other hand loves it and it was bought mainly for her as she's the one doing a fitness regime.
My first gripe with the game is the amount of time training compared with the amount of time you're actually playing the game. My Wii menu told me the game had been running for 1h 34mins, yet my training timer within the game said i'd been exercising for roughly 46 mins of that 1h 34mins, resulting in what I thought felt like a very drawn out exercise program (where as 15 mins on an exercise bike is 15 mins). This is all due to lots of confirmation screens and animations meaning you have to press 'A' many times before the exercises begin, all taking time.
My other problem is the accuracy. After 20 mins of very gentle, introductory training it said i'd lost about 2lbs, yet, despite becoming more accustome to the exercises and the sensitivity of the balance board, my Wii Fit age had gone from 23 to 38.
One last annoyance for me (that will go away after time) is that after telling me that i'm a healthy weight and have a (initial) Wii Fit age that's lower than my actual age, i'm only allowed to do 5 min work outs. The longer ones are unlocked as rewards after doing the exercise a number of times or exercising for long periods. Whilst I understand this is incredibly beneficial for people starting out and helps break people in gently it would have been nice to try and tailor regimes for people.
On the plus side, there are games that genuinely left me slightly out of breath or in a sweat and that's all beneficial in the long term. One really good thing for me has been the boards ability to monitor posture and the way in which you hold yourself. Within 30 seconds the game was able to indentify the cause of my bad back that has taken an Osteopath about 6 months to do. The game even gave me hints to rectify the problem that have all helped so far. As people have said before, the board is a good, sturdy bit of kit that i think is well worth the price considering the work that went in to it. The potential for use with other games in the future is also quite appealing. The inclusion of games as well as serious exercises is a great little incentive. You often forget you're getting a little workout because you're having fun, and, whilst perhaps not as taxing as a proper workout, are great for when, for example, you've had a bad day and can't face a hard slog on the exercise bike but at the same time don't want to let your workouts disappear.
My girlfriend has used it every day and loves monitoring her progress and it has definitely got her up of the sofa more frequently. It has quickly become part of a routine for her and has spurred her on to do more. In that sense it's a 5 star success, it just loses a star for my exeprience with it. Anything that gets people even slightly active that can be used by the whole family is a huge success in my opinion.
Getting fit thanks to Wii Fit April 25, 2008
A. L. Mueller (Shrewsbury GB UK)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I got my Wii Fit this morning, and wow, it is good, it's everything I was hoping for since I pre-ordered in November 2007 and more.
It gives a good indiction of your BMI and although It gave me a slightly differnt weight each time I tested it, it was only a few lbs extra or less, I put that mainly down the fact that my front room has carpet.
I've had a go at nearly all of the games that you start off with (I've got quite alot left to unlock) most of which are alot of the fun, though there are some I found realy hard work, especailly the jogging task, in which I was nearly in a state of collapse in afterwards, which in all fairness shows quite how unfit I am lol.
Its good fun and to be honest I can't wait to get back on it again, I alreadly clocked up 50 minutes in one session and I had a great time doing so. The Wii fit really does do what it set out to acheive, it helps to keep you fit.
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