The Nintendo Wii Fit can be a great addition to a healthy lifestyle of beneficial physical activity and proper nutrition. Using your Wii for fitness is almost like having a full-time personal trainer.
Look at fitness games like taking all the weights, exercise bikes, treadmills, yoga mats and exercise balls from the gym and stuffing them into a magical box that takes up less space, is more convenient, costs a lot less and arguably more fun.
Wii fitness games are very popular and have exercise routines that appeal to practically every level of fitness. Listed and described are five Wii fitness games to help you lose weight and burn fat.
Wii Fit
The Wii Fit is the most popular fitness game for the Wii. The Wii Fit comes bundled with the Wii Balance Board. The Balance Board is the main component of Wii Fit and gives you feedback on your movements and how well you are doing. Also you can use it with other Wii fitness games.
Cool features of Wit Fit include following your daily progress, setting fitness goals and the ability to check your BMI (body mass index) reading. Focused on a core workout, the Wii Fit is divided into four categories: Strength Training, Aerobics, Yoga and Balance.
Wii Fit provides you with dozens of exercises in each category, and the ability for you to unlock even more secret exercises with Fit Credits you earn while you play (exercise) to motivate you to keep in shape, have fun and make the Wit Fit a perfect introduction to fitness video games.
EA Sports Active
EA Sports Active primarily uses the Wii remote controller, Wii nun chucks and an exercise resistance band. However, EA Sports Active also has exercises you can do with the Balance Board.
EA Sports Active has several 20-minute workout and also allows you to customize your own. Exercises can target your upper body, lower body and cardio. There is also a 30 day challenge you can perform that tracks your calories and progress along the way.
The game is separated into sections Workout, Nutrition and Lifestyle. You can create a custom profile with EA Sports Active that includes your age, weight, gender, and more along with choosing a personal trainer to assist you with your fitness goals.
EA Sports Active is focused on giving you a serious workout session and gives you dozens of strength training and cardio workouts that you can customize and use to create circuit training routines. EA Sports Active gives real-time feedback, the tells you the amount of calories you burn.
Active Life Outdoor Challenge
Unlike other Wii fitness games that exclusively use the Balance Board, Active Life Outdoor Challenge makes use of the Active Life mat along with the Wii Remote. While it might not look like a serious fitness game, it works your entire body.
Moving beyond yoga and bicep curls found in traditional exercise routines, Active Life Outdoor Challenge games includes fast-paced and easy to learn activities like river rafting, jumping rope, bouncing on a water trampoline and log jumping to get you in shape.
You can play Active Life Outdoor Challenge alone or with friends during parties with both competitive and co-operative challenges. There is also a training mode where you can isolate specific body parts you want to work and a fitness report to track your progress.
Golds Gym Cardio WorkOut
Unlike other Wii fitness games that stay in the virtual world, Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout Get includes a free week trial to a real Gold’s Gym. Like other exercise video games, Gold’s Gym follows your progress with a fitness calendar and a calories burned.
Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout does make use of the Wii Balance Board but most of the action takes place by you using the Wii remote and nun chuck doing cardio boxing, running, jumping rope, sit-ups and the like.
My Fitness Coach
If a personalized workout routine is what you are after then My Fitness Coach is the Wii fitness game for you. You get almost 500 exercises to choose from, along with a personal trainer named Maya that walks you through routines, demonstrates exercises for you and provides you with encouraging advice and motivational pep talks to ensure that you will reach your fitness goals.
My Fitness Coach starts by evaluating where your fitness level is, then works with you to set personalized goals for your cardio, strength training, flexibility or something of your choice and then follows the progress of your physical activity through graphical charts.
Five Games Five Ways to a New You
The Nintendo Wii brought a new way for you to achieve the healthy lifestyle goals you have set for yourself. While there are many video games and systems that can help you with your fitness, these five remain at the top of the charts.
- Wii Fit
- EA Sports Active
- Active Life Outdoor Challenge
- Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout
- My Fitness Coach
However, the most important ingredient necessary for you to achieve your fitness goals is attitude. With the right mindset, you can make the proper adjustments to your nutrition and physical activity and get the results you want. These fitness games are simply more tools to help you get there in a way that is beneficial to your health, convenient and fun.
