Wii Fit - Reinvents the Workout

From the release of the game "Dance Dance Revolution", in 1998, the world got the taste for the "Exergames" and more and more games from the fitness genre were developed. One such game is the Wii Fit which was developed by Nintendo for the Wii console.

Released for the first time on December 1, 2007, in Japan, Wii Fit tries to be a solution to the fact that only in USA almost 1/3 of children are overweight. The game offers 40 different activities grouped into 4 categories of games / exercises: aerobic exercises, balance games, muscle workout and happinesslifetime.com yoga training. It's important to mention from the beginning that all the exercises presented shouldn't be considered a real workout, but a mere warm - up. It's also true, that more games you play, more games you unlock and the difficulty rate gets higher and quite challenging for the inexperienced player.

The success of Wii Fit doesn't consist in the difficulty of the elements presented, but in the merge of fun elements with some fitness exercises designed for the entire family to play. The game comes together with a "Balance Board" which is able to communicate wirelessly with the console and to provide it with information on your BMI (Body Max Index), plus other accurate measurements on your time of reaction, speed and power. Practically, this system is similar to the ones used in rehabilitation and for sportsmen training.

Also very useful is the ability to set goals, to check on your progress and to benefit from a personal trainer. The interactivity with the games is done through the Mii avatars which you can personalize and which are a mirror image of yourself. The games are very fun to play with family and friends and you can easily get engrossed and forget that your are in fact doing exercises.

The Wii Fit kit comes together with the game software, the balance board, instructions and 4 AA batteries at a price of almost 90$, depending from where it is bought. Because the demand for such a game remains quite high, Wii Fit is still hard to find in stores.

Wendy Brighton is a freelancer writer that activates on tuvabox.com tuvabox.com and is passionate about travelling, music and gadgets.