Product Description
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The hit combination of Wii Sports and the Wii Remote brought
golf swings and tennis serves into people's homes. Now Nintendo
turns the living room into a fitness center for the whole family
with Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board. 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. Lean
to block soccer balls, swivel hips to power hoop twirls or
balance to hold the perfect yoga pose. As users stand on the Wii
Balance Board, included with Wii Fit, their body's overall
balance is tied to the game in a way they'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:
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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.
Have fun while you get fit
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 . 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, youll 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
based on height and weight that is the standard used by agencies
such as the World Organization and the National Institute
of . To check your BMI, youll enter your height then stand
on the Wii Balance Board and let it read your weight.
* Wii Fit Age: After youve checked your BMI, youll 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, youll 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, youll
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,
Jack, Plank and Triceps Extension. Challenges include
Push-Up Challenge, Plank Challenge and Jack 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
youve earned, check your Wii Fit Age and even enter exercise
time youve done outside of Wii Fit. Its 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 others 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 recl 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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Manufacturer's Description
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Wii Fit is designed to be enjoyed by the whole family. In Japan
it has been encouraging family members as a whole to discuss the
topic of fitness and take an active interest in understanding
their own fitness in a fun and entertaining way, all in the
comfort of their own home.
Wii Fit comes bundled with the Wii Balance Board, an accessory
developed exclusively for the Wii console that will have a
far-reaching impact for all who use it. Its innovative, exciting
and most of all fun and simple for all to use. It is a pressure
sensitive, wireless balance board that goes on the floor so
someone can stand on it in front of the TV. It senses weight and
shift in balance in any direction and therefore by standing on
the Wii Balance Board during activities allows players to follow
along to movements ensuring they have full control of the
on-screen activities. This allows personal improvement goals to
be set to effectively help you and your family to train and stay
fit.
Increasing your awareness of the importance that fitness has on
everyday life and keeping yourself and family motivated should be
easier with Wii Fit. The programme allows up to 8 people to track
progress and monitor performance. Once you insert the Wii Fit
Disc into a Wii console, a new channel - Wii Fit Channel can be
added to your Wii Menu system. Once the Wii Fit Channel is added
it enables users to not have to insert the Wii Fit Disc into a
Wii console in order for the Wii Balance Board to scale your
weight to calculate your BMI, measure the center of your bodily
balance and conduct a balance test in order to calculate your Wii
Fit Age. It also allows you to monitor how long you did which
category of exercise for in one day, all in the comfort of your
own home and without the need to keep inserting the Wii Fit Disk
into your Wii console each time.
There are 4 training categories including Aerobic Exercises,
Muscle Workouts, Yoga and Balance Games that will help you and
your family to develop bodily balance control ability, burn
in the body, help tone and condition muscles, as well as help
increase aerobic stamina. Discover over 40 different activities
within these training categories such as Hula Hoop, Ski Jump,
Press-up Challenge, Rhythm Boxing, Rowing Squat, Lunge and
classic Yoga poses such as Half Moon, Tree and Crocodile Twist.
With all this on offer and much more, Wii Fit along with the Wii
Balance Board introduces an accessible and intuitive programme
for all the family to enjoy.
Through Wii Fits training programme, helpful tutorials and
encouragements from your on-screen fitness trainer, who will
change his or her verbal instructions depending on how you
actually perform, and the included Wii Fit Channel, you will
continue to have endless fun whilst having the satisfaction of
knowing you are aiding yourself, and your family, on towards a
path of a ier lifestyle.
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