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Wii Fit Plus

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Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board

Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board
List Price: USD 99.99
Lowest Used Price: USD 134.99
Lowest New Price: USD 138.70
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Manufacturer: Nintendo
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Product Description:
Wii Fit Plus w/ Balance Board
Amazon.com Product Description:
Wii Fit attracted millions of new players to the world of video games. Now Wii Fit Plus offers a range of new features and enhancements to help players reinvigorate their workouts, along with exercises and balance games designed to keep them fun. Players will find a new dimension to the Wii Fit experience as they easily set their own customized workout routines, or choose 20-, 30- or 40-minute workouts based on how much time they have available.

'Wii Fit Plus' game logo
Yoga and strength activity selector in 'Wii Fit Plus'
6 new yoga & strength activities.
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The 'Perfect 10' balance game from 'Wii Fit Plus'
The 'Perfect 10' balance game.
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Workout personalization options in the Locker Room in 'Wii Fit Plus'
Personalization options.
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The 'Obstacle Course' balance game from 'Wii Fit Plus'
'Obstacle Course' game
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Targeting specific body areas for excercise in 'Wii Fit Plus'
Target specific body areas.
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Users will also be able to choose from specialized workout routines that focus on all-around individual personal fitness goals or certain target areas. And with the addition of activities like Skateboarding and Rhythm Kung Fu, players will be using the Wii Balance Board accessory in a variety of new and fun ways.

Gameplay
As with the original Wii Fit release, Wii Fit Plus is designed, as its name implies, to improve the user's fitness. The game contains a large number of activities that fall into a variety of categories, including: yoga, aerobics, strength training and balance games. With all but a few exceptions, which utilize variations on a standard Wii Remote configuration, all activities utilize the Wii Balance Board (included with this bundle), either alone or configured with either a Wii Remote alone or the Wii Remote and nunchuck. The Balance Board, like any other Wii controller acts as a motion/pressure sensing device wirelessly synched to your Wii and replicating your body's movements. Each controller employed occupies one of the Wii's four wireless inputs, together mapping the reference points needed to recreate most full body motions on screen. Although this limits the majority of the activities to a single player orientation, various activities throughout the game support up to eight players in alternating play.

To use Wii Fit Plus players import their Miis from their Wii system, set up profiles, establish a current physical baseline, set fitness goals, and embark on a routine to reach them. Wii Fit Plus tracks your usage, weight and progress towards your goal over time, giving you a status report as you start each session. At any time players can choose whatever activity they want, whether exercise or balance game, and as they progress in these they will level up in each, gaining points, setting high scores and unlocking more activities.

Personalization Option Via 'The Locker Room'
The original Wii Fit was designed to have something for everyone. Now Wii Fit Plus raises the bar by providing users with personalization options that allow them to find/create a specific workout routine that is exactly right for them, their family and their lifestyle. One example of this is "The Locker Room." Easily accessible throughout the game, here players can choose from a number customizable options that allow them to maximize their time with Wii Fit Plus without having to navigate through the game menu while in the middle of a workout. In essence this allows players to become their own personal trainer. Customization options available within The Locker Room include: preprogrammed and timed Wii Fit Plus Routines; My Routine, where you choose your own set of activities, optimizing their length and area of the body to be focused on; and Favorites, a notation of activities you frequent, which provides fast access to exercises you enjoy doing the most.

Addition Yoga and Strength Exercises
Designed as an addition to the already substantial list of focused, physical exercises available in Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus contains six new and challenging strength and yoga activities. But continuing with the game's commitment to personalization, the key to these additions is not in their volume, but in how the player chooses to mix and match them. Do them in the order they are presented, or combine them in whatever order you want. The choice is yours. The player even has the ability to repeat the ones that he/she prefers, maximizing attention and effort where it is needed most. In addition, for those to whom time is a commodity, you can now omit unnecessary interludes between exercises, making for a continuous, timesaving routine.

A Wealth of New Balance Games
Regardless of the considerable fitness factor packed into Wii Fit Plus, the Nintendo brand is and will always be all about having fun. With that in mind Wii Fit Plus also comes packed with 15 new, entertaining balance games suitable for every member of the family. Just a few of those that players can expect to see are: Juggling; Skateboarding; Snowball Fight; Obstacle Course, a log-leaping, cannonball-evading event reminiscent of what Nintendo icon Mario must go through; and Perfect 10, a balance game designed to promote a combination of physical and mental health. In this final example the player's Mii is situated between multiple color-coated balls, each showing specific numbers, with the goal to swing your hips, hula style, in different directions to tap out a total of ten as many times as possible before time runs out.

Key Game Features

  • The Wii Fit Plus Bundle includes the game software and the Wii Balance Board.
  • Users can input the amount of time they want to spend on their workouts or select an area for personal improvement, and Wii Fit Plus will suggest a number of diverse activities for them.
  • For the first time, users can mix and match which strength and yoga activities they prefer on a given day. The seamless exercise flows make it easier than ever for users to maintain their daily workout routines.
  • Users might be asked to run an obstacle course across a series of platforms, zoom across a beach on a Segway x2 Personal Transporter or flap their arms to help their hilarious chicken-suited characters aim for targets.
  • The range of games and customization options will make players want to play every day. They’ll be having so much fun that their workouts will seem to fly by in no time at all.
  • Players also can see estimates of calories burned and can even activate a feature that lets them weigh their dogs or cats.

Features:
  • The Wii Fit Plus Bundle includes the game software and the Wii Balance Board.
  • Users can input the amount of time they want to spend on their workouts or select an area for personal improvement, and Wii Fit Plus will suggest a number of diverse activities for them.
  • For the first time, users can mix and match which strength and yoga activities they prefer on a given day. The seamless exercise flows make it easier than ever for users to maintain their daily workout routines.
  • The range of games and customization options will make players want to play every day. They¿ll be having so much fun that their workouts will seem to fly by in no time at all.
Brand: Nintendo
Edition: w/ Balance Board
Model: RVLRRFPE
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2009-10-04
Languages:
Unknown: English
Published: German
Customer Reviews


Wii Fit Plus w/balance board
I wanted the wii fit plus for myself to work out on but as great as it is for working out for me its more fun for the whole family to compete with all the mini games for balance etc even my three year old loves it and can go most of the games as well as the yoga poses. The only negative that i can think of is your not supposed to jump on the board and its kind of hard not to sometimes and if you do it makes you start the game all over. Other then that I would recommended it to everyone.


It is so fun-but I wish the cardio was more challenging
This thing is pure genius and I confess -- I've become slightly addicted. The Wii in itself is the coolest cheap date night. Add Wii Fit, and the product went from fun to totally useful. First, you/your family create your "mii" which you alter so that it looks like you. You can even add your pets in and weigh them, which makes the home screen adorable when the whole family runs out to greet you! Then, you weigh in and your mii either stays the same, gets thinner, or *gasp* gets bigger if happen to be overweight. I believe this setting can be altered if that part doesn't appeal to you.

The concept behind many activities is balance because the rule of thumb is that your core becomes stronger when your balance is right. Besides balance, it has some of these fun activities:
* strength
* yoga poses
* downhill skiing for balance
* running
* hula hoop
* boxing
* step
* many more

Honestly, if you work out a lot, some of them are lame. For example, the step was very disappointing and I didn't even break a sweat. I wish the cardio features of it were more challenging. The top activities in my opinion are: strength, yoga, and hula hoop because they are the toughest. Once the system recognizes that you are ready, it does unlock more advanced options. For example, the hula hoop time goes up (and actually, the hula hoop is pretty challenging and great for the waist!) and the strength exercises will unlock a higher number of repetitions.

If you want to work out hard, you'll have to still go to the gym. However, the Wii Fit really keeps you in check with the weigh-ins (and the corresponding charts that show your progress) and you can create workouts for yourself that may include yoga and strength (or whatever you want) for those days you don't feel like going to the gym or perhaps for an extra quick morning routine.

Any exercise is good exercise and the Wii Fit found a way to make it fun. I definitely pay more attention to my balance and after so many plank poses and leg lifts, and I do feel a bit stronger/more toned.


AWESOME!
I just love the variety of activities that are available on this thing. I am addicted to it. This morning I got on for an hour & 20 minutes and burned over 600 calories. Can't wait till they release the Racquetball game


Great game!!!!!!
While some of the games are a little difficult, overall we use this game to lose weight and build strength and muscle. So far it has been working!


fun board
the wife didn't think it would be fun , now I can hardly keep her off of it. We both like it better than we thought we would. There are really several things to use it for and we like all of them.

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1 Response to Wii Fit Plus

Justin Xu

December 7th, 2009 at 6:37 am

I also have a Wii Fit Plus and it rocks!!!

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