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Own a Wii? Are an adult? Don't have time but want to stay fit? Then BUY THIS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 513 / 548
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I own the Wii Fit since last week. I'm 32, 1.76m, ~82-84kg (fluctuates) and with my wedding coming up in a few months I wanted to lose some weight. I work all day and have little time in the evenings so the preparation and driving to and from the gym was too much. I wanted to use that 30-40 min to exercise, not prepare for exercise. I own a Wii since Xmas and decided to try this out after reading various reviews on the internet. Is this as good as going to the gym? No it does not replicate a gym. Will it get the job done? Will it keep you fit and help you lose weight? YES YES YES! I love it and highly recommend it. I get a great work out in 45 min. I feel great about myself, and have already lost a kilo. (note I have not changed my diet). Notice I get my work out in as much time as it takes to commute and prepare for gym. I also have more fun than going to the gym on my own. Perhaps going to a gym with a friend would be more fun. Depends. Anyway I love the Wii Fit! Note it takes a few times to get used to it and figure out how best to use it. Why? Well there is no prepared program for you. You have to decide on your own what you want to do and in what sequence. I start off by doing the aerobics (jogging, holla hoop) and then vary. Basically, the Wii Fit breaks its exercises into Muscle, Balance, Aerobics, and Yoga. I mainly doing the Aerobics and mix in some muscle and yoga. The muscle and yoga can be really tough. You wouldn't believe how much. You can really feel the muscles working. I do the balance exercises when I'm tired and want to relax a bit in between exercises. They may help with balance but are more of a game than anything else. The more you exercise, new exercises open up. In other words, you start of with a limited about of stuff to do and slowly you get more and more. Don't listen to the few negative reviews you may read on the internet. They were probably biased against the product before even trying it. This product costs a little more than going to the gym for a month (at least in my country). By the time I unlock all the exercises, I will have exercised more than a 1-month gym subscription, burnt more calories, and will have a fun game left too! Compared to nothing after a month at a gym. I highly recommend this. As I explained, you are getting more than your money's worth, having fun, and getting fit.

Wow!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 191 / 203
Date: May 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Addictive. Hard. Rewarding. Fun. Tiring. Frustrating. Amazing.

Too many adjectives, I know, but Wii Fit is all of those things.

I was impressed when we bought a Wii for our daughter last Christmas. Now I'm thrilled. Finally, a video "game" that seems tailor made for me! I've only had my copy of Wii Fit for a few days now, but already I can tell that if any piece of home equipment is ever going to help me get back in shape, this is it. Setting it up is hardly tougher than slipping in a DVD, and, unlike the Total Gym I once had, it makes you feel young just using it.

The first thing you do is weigh yourself by standing on the included wireless "Balance Board." After that, everything seems more like a game than a workout, but after 30 minutes with this thing I was sweating just as much as I do at the gym. There are four types of exercises: aerobics, balance, strength training, and yoga. Lasting from a minute to 10 minutes each, specific virtual activities include boxing, hula-hooping, jogging, push-ups, some very fun snowboarding action and this funky tilting game where you push balls into virtual holes.

Back to that balance board. You'll hate what it tells you about yourself, but love that it told you. Besides your weight, you learn your Wii Fit Age, a figure that combines your weight, body mass index and sense of balance. As you exercise, the program tracks your progress, or lack of it.

My only two complaints: the voice that speaks to you is little-kid cute, and there are no pre-set workouts.

If you're like me, you buy a lot of video games for your kids. If you can find it, buy this one for yourself. I got mine at list price, but I'd say it's worth about $150.

Best Application of Wii Technology Yet!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 66 / 71
Date: May 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We have been waiting for the Wii Fit release for quite a long time and are certainly not disappointed!! I'm sitting here, having worked up quite a sweat {and, counterintuitively, munching on a piece of Wegman's Ultimate Chocolate cake}!

The Wii Fit is very sturdy, heavy and well-built. The exercises are well-balanced (pardon the expression) between aerobics, balance, yoga, and strength. The device is easy to set up and anyone can be successful using the device. My one complaint is with the push-up exercise included under the strength regimen. The Wii Fit is made of hard plastic and it makes it difficult to get a good purchase on the device while doing the push ups. Its great exercise, since your hands are also fairly close together, but my hands keep slipping and it feels uncomfortable. Several people have suggested buying one of the covers, such as Wii Fit Protective Silicon Cover, but I have not tried this yet.

Otherwise, the games included on the Wii Fit disk are fun and the skiing is great!

I believe we will continue to use the device, especially since my Mii was visually"adjusted" to reflect my Body Mass Index (BMI). Losing a little weight is now a matter of pride!! It also calculated my "age" at my actual age...absolutely unsatisfactory...must be 20 years younger!! {grin} However, it allows you to set target weight and BMI, so you will compete against yourself to lose weight and also improve your overall fitness level. It's fun! If your personal stats are upsetting to you, fear not, you can password protect them! One word of caution...don't take the BMI or "Age" calculated for you by the software too seriously. Use common sense. Although it SHOULD help you improve your fitness, this is still a game and NOT a professional exercise device. There have been several bits on the news this week claiming that the Wii is no substitute for a personal trainer (interviewing personal trainers, of course) but most of us don't have time for a personal trainer and also cannot afford one. The Wii Fit is much better than the alternative....nothing.

There are plenty of exercises and activities to keep things fresh and to keep your interest. Particularly good if you live in a dorm or apartment and don't have much room for dedicated exercise equipment.

Overall, This Is A Great Device!! An absolute "Must Have" for all Wii owners!!! Now, if it could only keep me away from the cake!

A Few Flaws but an Awesome Healthy "Game"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 37 / 43
Date: May 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Wii Fit "game" for the Wii is far more than a game! It comes with a balance board and lets you practice yoga, strength training, aerobics and other fitness games with your very own Personal Trainer.

First, how it works. There is a white plastic balance board you stand on, which is in essence a multi-part scale. It can tell exactly where you are standing on the board, and where your weight is. If you lean forward, it senses the weight shift. If you stand on one foot and wobble around, it can sense that wobble. *Precisely*.

So for example, in the yoga area one of the exercises is "tree pose". This is the classic yoga pose you see with one foot against the other leg and the hands up in the air. You stand that way for about a minute. The Wii knows exactly how steady you are, and shows you a red dot dancing around the screen to show your fluctuations. Of course, if you are really good at this, it shows that dot calmly at rest.

Being a scale, the system tracks your weight loss (or gain) each time you use it, and because you put in your age and height, it tracks your BMI as well. The charts show you how you progress each day, and what your daily exercises levels are, broken down by the various categories.

You can choose a male or female trainer, and the trainer demonstrates the moves visually on the screen while you watch. So for push-ups, the trainer is on the screen, doing them properly, giving you advice on form and what to do. They tell you exactly what muscles you will be working out. They provide front-and-back views so you can get a better sense of what you're doing, and give audio messages as well so you know when to change position.

There is really a lot of variety here. There are games like hula hoop and walk-the-tightrope to give you some fun. There are different levels of some games you can unlock. You can "go for a run" where you have the Wii controller in your pocket and run (not on the board) in place, while an interesting scenery scrolls past on the TV. The speed the scenery moves is based on your own running speed, so you can go faster or more slowly. You can even run with a friend!

You are told NOT to jump on the board and in fact the game will restart a given level if you do, to help make that clear. The board is a scale, as mentioned, and they do their best to have you treat it relatively gently.

You really can work up a sweat if you do harder activities, but there is a LOT in here for the out of shape to start slowly.

Now all of this begin said, there are several downsides to this game that they really should have added in.

First, they have lots of little short games - and no way to connect them together! You have to track down activity 1. Go through it. Then go back out to the menus and track down activity 2. It can take literally a minute to go between one thing and the other, with lots of button clicking. They should have let you string together "my fitness set" to do this more easily. They do have a "favorites" menu that lets you see the 10 things you do the most, but it's not the same.

Next, they don't recommend anything at all based on your weight / BMI. You are completely on your own to know what to do. You can tell it "I want to lose 20 pounds in 6 months". Fine. It doesn't give you any help or guidance at all. No "hey you lost 20 calories" or "only 10 minutes to go!" You have to make your own plans. Normally this is what a trainer does for you - so their virtual trainer is pretty useless.

Which goes into another thing a real trainer would help you with - the order of activities. Muscle groups work in combination with each other and you should warm up, then do a combination of activities, then cool down. The Wii Fit has no information at all about this type of planning. You could randomly choose things to do that all work out your legs for example and never touch your lower back. You could cause strain on your body by leaping into the higher activities without doing a warm up lower activity. This would have been SO simple for them to build into the system, but they did not.

The scale unit tops out at 330 pounds. I work with many obese people and there are MANY people out there over 330 pounds who this system would have been ideal for. They can't use it. I know someone who was 270 pounds who used this and the system kept giving them errors. I know they can't have an infinite weight scale, but something a little higher end would have been very encouraging.

To me these things are all "really should put into Version 2" issues. I will still give WiiFit 5 stars for being a groundbreaking entry into the video gaming world - something that can really change lives and help people become more healthy. There are all sorts of other "would be great" enhancement ideas - for example, if you hooked up a video camera, you could see how YOUR downward facing dog looked, to see if it matched the "trainer" on the screen. That could be hugely helpful for people.

WiiFit is definitely a great software package - I wouldn't call it a game - and I highly recommend that everybody get their hands on one if they can. It's a system that appeals to all ages, is healthy for all ages, and is a lot of fun too.

Wii Fit is the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is totally fun. My husband was able to make my "Mii" look just like me! It's a riot, fun and challenging too! It makes the prospect of exercise both entertaining, challenging and worthwhile! It's the best as far as I'm concerned!

Mii Fit

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We love our Wii Fit. Initially I wasn't very interested in getting one, it seemed like it wouldn't really provide much in the way of a workout. However, I was wrong and have been using this to augment other exercise routines.
Yoga and balance in particular were areas I didn't address in my regular routine, but the Wii Fit made those interesting and fun.

Great workout for the non-gym person

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am not a gym person. I get bored. But I love my Wii Fit because I wanted to incorporate some exercise into my life. First, it's fun. You start out with it taking your weight, balance and then you can choose from a lot of different types of exercises from yoga, strength, aerobics, etc. I like that I can as much or little as I feel like in a given day. There are some game-like things in here that are meant to improve your balance. The exercises range from pretty easy to a real workout. You can work with it to do as much or little as you'd like. You can pick a male or female trainer to work with. There's probably not a lot "new" here in terms of the exercises. The yoga moves, or strenth training are pretty much things I already know. But I like the way the board judges how well you're doing them. It knows if you're standing up straight, etc. I learned how off balanced I am. The cardio things are fun, there's a hula hoop workout and a running one that really gets my heart pumping. There's a lame step aerobic thing that's more like dance dance revolution. But the more you work with it, more activities unlock. I still have a lot still locked so I'm sure more fun stuff will come along. But overall, I think this is worth it, even if you only do it once in awhile. And the best part is that the scale has me about 3-4 pounds lower than I really am, so who can beat that!

Wii Fit ... Another great addition to your wii collection!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 20
Date: May 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I pre-ordered Wii Fit in April and was so excited to receive this innovative game. The game shipped on May 19th and arrived on May 20th, a day earlier than the release date. So for that, I thank you Amazon.

Back to the game, it is really easy to set up and begin playing the game. You start off by syncing the balance board with your console. It's a matter of pushing two buttons, so very simple. Then you begin the process of creating your profile in the Wii Fit profile. The board is really sensitive and hopefully very accurate scale. I did notice that there was a discrepancy between our scale at home and the Wii balance board. So I am wondering if the balance board is calibrated perfectly. But I'm inclined to hope that Nintendo really spent the time to calibrate the scale correctly.

I am impressed at the cleanliness of the graphics. They are by no means, gorgeous HD quality graphics but they are pleasant to look at. I find that the exercises are challenging. What I do wish is that you would be able to pair exercises together and make your own 30 minute workout session without having to go to the menu to select another exercise.

I had heard that in the Japanese version, the trainer is really harsh. Not so with the American version, the trainer actually gives you useful advice and kindly tells you that you need to practice more. I do promise that you will be sore the next day.

I was impressed by the skiing balance games, they are really a lot of fun. The ski jump is really fun. And my thighs got a heck of a workout. I do have to say that the on-screen instructions for the balance and aerobic games are not as detailed as I would have liked but you learn with practice.

Overall, this is a great addition to your fitness regime and your video game collection. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to tone up their core and improve their balance.

From a confirmed couch potato to a Wii Fit addict!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 18
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I won't repeat what others have said about how this works, what it includes, or the fact that it is a quality piece of equipment.

Nope, all I will say is - I'm a 54 year old female who HATES any type of "formal" exercise (that which is not walking or gardening, pretty much) and I LOVE MY Wii FIT!

I just got it last week, waited a few days before getting it set up, and immediately set to learning how to balance my body (not my strong suit) - and finding it amazingly FUN in the process.

Turning point was Friday when I CHOSE to get on the Wii instead of go make a sandwich for lunch! And 32 fast minutes went by, twirling, leaning, sweating and HAVING FUN before I finally made it to the kitchen.

I am SO glad I bought this! I LOVE racking up "points" and unlocking even more games and the advanced levels.

OK, so the graphics and voices are a little less than stellar but honestly I don't care. I hope this thing lasts forever. Fun for the whole family!

A Review From A Fat Guy: Get This Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: May 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I preordered this from Gamestop after Amazon sold out their preorders. I wasn't disappointed.

I'm fat, and ashamed of it; "clinically obese" would be the term I'd use. My doctor has begged me to get a trainer, but they're expensive; and I hate gyms since they're boring, and out of my way. But I'm a gamer -- I love to sit and play CoD. Exercise is almost non-existent in my life.

Setting up the Fit Board is easy. You slap a few batteries in and sync. The graphics are cute. The music is cute, too. (you can just mute the TV an put on some better music, if you want.)

You set it up by telling the game your height, weight, and let it weigh you. And then tell the game how much weight you want to lose (you can lose up to 22 pounds/cycle, and can edit this every 2 weeks). If you try to lose too much weight too fast, the game cautions you against it, but will allow you to do it. Additionally, the game will allow you to password protect your profile, if you're worried about others finding it.

So, how's the game itself? In a word: fun. Really fun.

The exercises are easy. Step aerobics. Hula hooping. Running. Basic toning exercises (except for the pushup/jackknife. That's killer, man. killer.) Some are annoying (the balance board ones are really fun, but are killer hard for me to get right.)

And you get good feedback from the game -- you earn points for each activity, and you can actually chart the weight loss through the Wii itself. It's really sweet.

The game is fun. In a good way. I've put in an hour already tonight, and I'll continue to use it tomorrow. This is, by far, the best chance I've had to lose weight in a long, long time.

Get this game if you're looking to exercise in your own home.

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