Product Description
Revolutionize your workout regimen with ea SPORTS Active, the ultimate interactive fitness program that's designed for you. Get fit with a holistic approach to fitness that combines nutrition and lifestyle factors, with a variety of activities, all from the convenience of your living room. From customized routines that target upper body, lower body, and cardio to a guided 30-day challenge that tests muscle endurance, coordination and agility, stay in shape with fitness made fun and easy.
I have the Wii Fit and have been using it for a couple months. I thought I'd try this product just to get some variety. Sorry I did.
The interface to the game is not nearly as good good as the Wii fit. The exercise routines are OK, but the leg band keeps falling off and the rubber band they send you to work with is a joke.
While some of the graphics are nice, the overall quality of it is just not up to what I expected.
This is an awesome game. I have had the Wii sports, Golds Gym, My fitness coach and even the jillian Michaels workout, and the Active is much better than all of these combined. It is the one game you can workout with a partner, great for families. It gives you a good workout and you can create your own workout which I love. The preset workouts are great also. I cannot say anything negative about this game, it is one that I really look forward to play or working out if that is what we call it. You really do work up a sweat and like they say, you get what you put into it.
Not going to much... it's great. My boys tell me that old guys shouldn't bounce around like that, but it really is a well engineered and serious exercise supplement. Has me changing my behavior and eliminating excuses on getting exercise.
Got this cause i was bored with Wii Fit, and while it's a little bit better...don't expect this to pump you up. It's not nearly as intensive as lifting weights and doing REAL cardio, but certainly can be a good way for someone who is intimidated at the gym to start to ease into a workout routine and earn for some more! I'll won't be canceling my gym membership anytime soon though...
I really love this product! I hate to call it a game because I don't feel that it is. I am doing the 30 day challenge and I feel like I just got out of a class at the gym when I get done. I have the 'My Fitness Coach' and this blows that program out of the water. You can't even compare them because they are so different. The pros are: the leg strap to hold the nunchuck really makes sure that you run, lunge, squat, etc. instead of just flicking your wrist (like with the Wii Fit); the resistance band is great to use because you actually get some feeling in your arms like you're working out; quick (less than 30 minutes so far-including tutorials); great music to keep you going. Cons: if you can call this a con, you have to have the controllers precisely how they say to have them or the Wii won't register that you've done the exercise. It can be frustrating when it doesn't register right away and you have to wait, but if you do the exercise correctly things progress in a timely fashion. I am out of shape and overweight and I really feel this is helping me.
The EA Sports Active makes working out fun. Setting goals is nice, seeing them be completed is even nicer. This game is well worth the cost, especially for the preset workouts alone. Customizing is good for those days when you don't have a lot of time and only want to work specific areas, but the presets are even better. They can be done in under a half hour and you get a full body workout, not just one area or another instead focusing on building muscles and getting cardio in.
After about a hundred lunges/squats, I was really feeling the burn and, I have to say, am not disappointed with this.
The only thing that I had trouble with early on was the resistance band, but once you get going and get in the game you get used to it and find that it really is helpful. And this is coming from a staunch supporter of the free weight. Some of the exercises can get a bit tedious, but when you finish them, you feel like you've accomplished something.
So, for all you Wii Fit folk, take a break from that and get out there and really get your butt kicked with the Active. You can even use that little balance board of yours in game.
In my opinion, Wii Active is much more effective than Wii Fit. I love that the trainers and avatars are grown ups and not little Weeble looking things. I really enjoy the circuit training aspect which goes from aerobic exercise to strength training to balance exercises. I'm currently doing the 30 day challenge and after only a couple of workouts I can really feel a difference in my body. There is great motivation built in both through a rolling calories burned counter as you work out and coaching from your personal trainer.
You can also customize workouts based on any activities you particularly like or calories you want to burn or body parts you want to work on.
Each exercise is thoroughly demonstrated and described before your first try and the trainer will correct you if you are not doing something the right way. You can choose your intensity level of easy, medium or high.
A couple of minor things that I would like to note are:
the resistance band is rather flimsy and you have to tie it to the straps yourself which left me wondering how sturdy it is. I may go and buy a different band rather than use the one included,
the leg strap leaves velcro exposed on the inside of your thigh so it's a bit scratchy when doing running, walking, etc.
finally, I would love for them to have included BMI and weight measurement along with a graph like Wii Fit has - that really helped my motivation.
I am definitely in the beginner phase of working out and need to lose about 40 pounds. For me, this is a great workout and it's a lot of fun. For people who are already hard core into exercise, this may not be your thing. It does have a high intensity level but I haven't even looked at that yet.
Overall, if I had to choose between this and Wii Fit, I would choose this one.
I've had this now for 10 days (since it was released) and I love it.
PROs:
(1) GREAT workout. It is an *astronomically* better workout than Wii Fit (which is still a great choice if you are sedentary and trying to change that, or for kids' fitness), and much better than My Fitness Coach (which I have been using regularly for months) and Gold's (I haven't used that much though because I dislike the interface - it's ugly). I have been doing the "hard" level since I got this and it kicks my BUTT. I worked out with a friend who was a bit skeptical of using a "game" to work out, and she was astonished by how much she sweat, how her heart rate rose and how sore she was the next day.
(2) FUN. It is way more fun to do one or two of these workouts than going around and around on elliptical then lift weights for the same amount of time. This mixes everything up in a great way - when you are JUST starting to think "How much is left?" it's over. None of that mind-numbing, soul-crushing count-the-seconds stuff I can experience during an elliptical or stationary bike session.
(3) Terrific customisability. The ability to create custom workouts of your own, AND the ability to deselect some exercises from the pre-set workouts, make sure I will never get bored. Compared to My Fitness Coach, in which you have only preset workouts (and she keeps saying she'll make it harder next time but then she doesn't), this is great.
(4) Pausable. Meaning that you can pause it simply by holding down the - on the remote in your hand, to show a video. And the you can answer the door, the phone, whatever. Then you can restart that exercise (start it over) if you want by holding down the + and choosing to restart. The reason I put this as a prominent PRO is that it is NOT true of My Fitness Coach - the only way to pause MFC is to find the remote (you don't hold it during the workout like you do in Active, so you have to scramble to retrieve it), click its power button to wake it up (remote is usually asleep/off bcs it has not been used in the workout), aim the remote to click the small "tutorial" button on the screen, etc...the whole thing is such a pain that it makes me not as relaxed during MFC as I am during an Active workout. Knowing that one doorbell ring won't rupture the whole workout rhythm really lets me relax and give the workout my all.
CONS:
(1) The resistance band. Please. It's balloon plastic, no resistance at all. Had to buy a better one. Not a biggie, but should not have to replace a part right out of the box. (Why not have two resistance bands in the game? light and medium, make the game work for pretty much everyone? Yes, yes, cost - but like 30 cents of plastic is going to torpedo EA's bottom line).
(2) No core/ab exercises - but there is core work inherent in some of the sports drills activities, so maybe this is not *really* necessary. I don't know how they would make core exercises work with extremity sensors, but hey! I didn't invent Sports Active either - surely the smart folks who did could come up with something that works your core while sensing arms/legs.
(3) Why does the 30-day suggest a rest day after 2 workout days (it still lets you work out if you want), but then the rest of the interface (like the "journal") will urge you to "why not work out today!" It's kind of weird, like multiple personality or something. I'm just sayin.
(4) I can't figure out why so often it has you use the same muscles in several exercises in a row - for example jump lunges (ow) then side to side jumps (oww) then inline skating (are you kidding me? my quads are not functioning anymore) all in a row. Wouldn't it make more sense to let your legs recover a tiny bit between those so that you get maximum benefit?
(5) The balance board incorporation is problematic - even when it says it is a "Wii Balance Board Day" on the 30-day challenge I still get no Balance Board exercises. I do have it set to use the board. Have to troubleshoot this - I did put a balance board exercise in a custom workout and the balance board does make things a teeny bit more challenging, plus I haven't gotten to try kickboxing yet and I want to!
(6) This is such a small thing - but in the basketball shooting (kind of a dumb exercise) you have to twist to the left to grab a ball, then shoot. Why in the world would they NOT have you alternate? Twist to left, grab, shoot, twist to right, grab, shoot? It would be a nice way to use some core muscles on both sides of the body.
HINTs/TIPS:
Maybe others have already said these things, but here is some stuff I have figured out to make the game work well for me:
(1) Lunges, squats, etc - get the nunchuck all the way in the holster. It does fit well. It has to be in there properly for the lunges, etc to work. And putting the leg thing very high on the thigh works best so it doesn't slide down.
(2) Inline skating - I was jumping with tons of energy, but my avatar didn't do the same - she wasn't jumping at all and I was being scolded for my terrible effort, which was pretty frustrating. Until I learned that what works is to TIME your jumps properly. If you always jump just as you get to the green arrow, you will always do a trick and make EA Active guy happy. Yay.
(3) Running - I was having a little bit of trouble with the game sensing my pace - I would be going along and it would suddenly say "Too Slow" and start hassling me to go faster, even though I hadn't changed anything. I would go very fast but it would still say Too Slow. But then I found that it wants you to raise your knees a bit more than you would when actually running; then it can sense your pace properly. I have not had a problem with this since I figured this out.
Overall, despite the picky stuff I put under CONS above, this is a fantastic buy and well worth every penny. I recommend this highly to anyone who wants a real, and very time-efficient, workout. There is simply nothing else that comes close to this - it blows everything else out of the water. I really hope they put out expansion packs, I will be first in line to buy them. But even if not, the variety and customisability will keep this from being boring.
Have fun, everyone!
P.S. Irrelevant nonsense - Has anyone else noticed that the male trainer has a Canadian accent? I haven't listened to the female trainer, so maybe she does too. :)
I was looking to up the intensity from My Fitness Coach, and this doesn't do it for me. The resistance band is lame: I want to be able to use hand weights. It's awkward to hold the resistance band handles and the Wii remote and nunchuk, especially when your hands are sweaty. And ... there are NO abdominal exercises on this!! Come on!!!
I dislike the leg band--it either slides down or cuts off my circulation. The sensors miss a lot of my movements and the game just stops, which is really frustrating when I'm trying to get through my workout and get to the rest of my day.
This is okay for some active fun, and I like to be able to choose which exercises I do, but for a daily workout I find it lacks some key elements, especially intensity and working a variety of areas--lower, upper, core, flexibility. I like My Fitness Coach, but it is buggy and very limited. This isn't much better and it costs twice as much.
If you're just starting out exercising, though, this would be a fun way to get into the groove. The boxing, dancing, and baseball are my favorites for fun and the squats, lunges, and side lunges are tops for workout intensity.
I think I need to give up on the Wii for working out for now, and get some DVDs. Too bad. This had potential.
This is what I was hoping Jillian Michael's Wii game and the Gold's Gym Cardio would be. I'm so glad I went ahead and bought it. I should have known it would be good based on the EA Outdoor Life.
You don't need a balance board to get a great workout--although if you do have one, you can do a few more exercises. Basically, there's a thigh strap that you put the numchuk in... and you hold the wii remote in your right hand. That's how it senses your movement. It can be a little fickle... as it never did record my squats...and that drove me crazy. Still, it works 99% of the time. Just pay attention to the positioning that they want.. such as down beginning the upright row...and then level.
It comes with a workout band which is pretty weak. I just took out one of my bodylastics tubes and used that instead. You hold the band along with the wii remote and numchuk so it's not like there's any sensors in the Band itself.
I loved how I could create my own personal workout. I love the 30 day challenge that comes with it.
I agree that I would have loved to see some step as well...but other than that, it's wonderful.
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About EA Sports Active detail
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2 in Video Games
- Brand: Electronic Arts
- Model: 19045
- Released on: 2009-05-19
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Number of discs: 1
- Platform: Nintendo Wii
- Dimensions: .75 pounds
Features
- Game includes a deep co-operative multiplayer game mode.
- Engage in fitness made easy through 20 minute circuits feature a variety of familiar activities that target upper body, lower body as well as cardio.
- Follow the guidance, motivation and training tip of your very own virtual personal trainer.
- 30 day challenge' of tailor made 20 minute workouts, that change as you progress each day, and track calories, intensity and progress throughout your journey.
- Gameplay/workout options are extended with the included Nunchuck strap and resistance band accessories, and compatibility with the Wii Balance Board (not included).
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