My Fitness Trainer is what Wii Fit should have been
I bought Wii Fit and the balance board and after using it a few times I thought that it was good enough to use instead of my £32 per month gym. So, I cancelled my gym membership and off I went, for about two weeks. The more I used Wii Fit the more it became frustrating because of two show stopping reasons.
The first and least show stopping was that the trainer repeated himself so often that I ended up having to turn the sound off. During a 20 rep arm exercise I heard `this exercise will strengthen your arm muscles' four times! At the end of every exercise you hear `doing that exercise regularly will help.. blah.. blah.. blah...'
The second and complete show stopper is the fact that you have to choose every exercise individually, one at a time. This means that, let's say, you chose to do 10 push ups. You tell it that and off you go. At the end of that you have to go back to the chose exercise menu and chose 10 sit-ups or whatever it is you decide to do. It took me about 45 minutes to do a half hour workout because of this.
So, there are none of these problems with My Fitness Instructor. It's a much more fluid and well designed workout program.
When you first install it you are asked to do an initial fitness evaluation. This involves entering your measurements, age and weight. You then do a fairly brief fitness check which has you measure your resting heart rate and then measure it again after doing a few minutes of exercise, which you follow on screen.
When it has your information it asks you if you own any of the following.
1. Heart rate monitor.
2. Aerobic step
3. Balance ball
4. Weights
If you answer yes to any of those it will incorporate them into your workout.
Finally, it asks what your goal is. This can be weight loss, cardio fitness, upper body strength etc. It will make recommendations too, based on your weight and fitness test. It recommended I lose weight, and it's right unfortunately. When you tell it your goal it then sets up a weekly routine for you. It told me to do a total of two and a half hours per week, which it spread over five days. You can tweak the days and duration as much as you like. You can also go back at any time and adjust it if it's too much or too little or inconvenient days.
The first workout. I loved it. The on screen woman that you follow is really good and hops around like a real instructor. She does very occasionally repeat herself but it is very occasionally, unlike the three or for times per minute in Wii Fit! I'm quite fit but the workout made me sweat and I found it just about bang on for what I was after. I did a full (uninterrupted, unlike the Wii Fit) half hour aerobic workout which incorporated my step, weights and balance ball. Occasionally I was asked during a brief rest period if the previous exercise had been too easy, bang on, or too hard. It then adjusts the rest of the session accordingly.
After a few sessions (which are always different and interesting) you unlock new exercise rooms (garden, dojo etc) and new music types (dance, Latin etc). This only happens if you follow your weekly routine, so don't be a couch potato : )
After every 10 workouts you are asked to do the initial fitness test again. It then shows you on a graph how you have improved in all areas. I've lost half a stone in three weeks with this and laying off the alcohol.
I can't recommend this program too highly.
Oh, and this programme doesn't use the Wii balance board.
much more of a workout!!
all of the above reviews are correct and this is going to motivate and increase your fitness so much more than the wii fit. If you find the wii fit is out of your budget or you want to get really fit this is the one, so much cheaper and all you need is a bit of space.Having had both the wii fit and this I think this is better(seriously).wii fit now seems more suited to getting the kids and family of the sofa but if you want real results get this one!
Loving this Game! 
Just got my Fitness Coach yesterday. I found setting up my profile to be a bit fiddly, as you need to measure certain body parts and I simply couldn't figure out the rounding down and rounding up of the inches? Anyway with the measurements done, I moved on to performing a set amount of exercises designed to evaluate you fitness level, which took about 20mins.
I absolutely love that you can tailor make your workout times to fit your schedule and you can select workouts to targets areas, like upper body and flexibility to name a few. I have so far enjoyed the cardio the most, and found it to be varied and the steps really easy to follow, (which is great as I get lost pretty easy with complicated step routines.)
There are also other things that add to the workout, such as choosing the background music, choice of environment back ground which adds to the mood and the option to incorporate other workout equipment such as dumbbell, which really add to the variety and results. You can also log other exercise you have done which then shows in a graph to mark your progress.
During any workout, you have options to increase or decrease the difficult, and there is a bar running along the bottom which shows what the next workout will be. There are also rest break and water breaks, which usually come after a high intensity exercise, so no need to pause! At the end of every workout it also states your estimated calories burned, which I find to be really motivational in itself.
The only issue I have are graphic, which could have been a little better, (I would have been more than happy to play a little extra for good graphics), but at least the pictures on the adverts did represent the game, so no false adverting there. It would be more beneficial, when choosing to decrease or increase the difficulty that it changed immediately.
I would highly recommend this for anyone looking to add to there exergaming, it is fun, challenging and really motivational.
About My Fitness Coach (Wii) detail
- Amazon Sales Rank: #13 in Computer & Video Games
- Brand: UBI Soft
- Released on: 2009-01-23
- Rating: To Be Announced
- Platform: Nintendo Wii
- Format: Unknown format
- Dimensions: 1.10 pounds
My Fitness Coach (Wii) Description
In My Fitness Coach, meet Maya, your virtual personal trainer, in an accessible, convenient and intense fitness program that will help you reach your fitness objectives. Build your profile, establish your goals and work out a plan you can commit to. Maya will then guide you through dynamic workouts featuring over 500 unique exercises to ensure no two workouts are the same. Choose your music, your mood, your focus and Maya will take care of the rest. Maya provides you fitness advice and motivational pep talks during workouts that help keep you moving and on the way to your fitness goals.
- Evaluate your current fitness level in order to determine your baseline fitness.
- Fitness goals and workout calendar: Weight loss, upper body strength, lower body strength, core body strength, cardio fitness, or flexibility: choose your fitness objectives and a schedule for your workouts (length of your program, frequency, etc).
- Training sessions with over 500 unique exercises featuring Yoga, Pilates, Kickboxing, Cardio fitness, Strength Training, Flexibility, and Weight Loss Routine.
- Tutorials: During the workout you can stop the action and watch a model demonstrate exactly how a move is done correctly. Each tutorial includes a choice of view speeds and camera angles to give you the best instructional view.
- Track your progress: See your success tracked and displayed graphically as you work out. Maya will takes you through a similar evaluation after every 10th workout to measure your progress (e.g. push-ups, squats, crunches, etc.)
- Settings: Nine different workout environments and four types of music (Hip-Hop, 80's, Latin and Dance).
- Meditation garden: The perfect place to practice stretching, Yoga and complete relaxation.
- Workout equipment: Compatible with your own equipment: you can even incorporate it into your workouts!