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Smile UK Store - Wii Fit (Wii)
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List Price: £69.99
Our Price: £95.58
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Nintendo
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Nintendo
Color: Avocado
EAN: 0045496901080
ESRB Age Rating: Rating Pending
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Nintendo
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Model: RVLRRFNE
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: Nintendo
Release Date: 2008-04-25
Studio: Nintendo
Variation Description: Avocado
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Editorial Reviews:
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Designed to help you become more aware of your physical condition, Wii Fit invites you to have fun and get healthy in the process. With exercises that focus on helping you to improve balance and posture, change your Body Mass Index or simply relax, Wii Fit uses the latest technology to assist you in leading a healthier lifestyle. The first step is putting your feet on the state-of-the-art Wii Balance Board in order to get an overview of your present fitness level. By measuring your BMI (Body Mass Index), analysing your centre of gravity and calculating your athletic ability via a couple of simple tests, the software determines your Wii Fit Age - a measure unique to the game which could range from 2 to 99. Wii Fit features more than 40 different exercises across four areas of training. Burn calories with the Aerobic Exercises, work on your balance and posture with the Balance Games, bulk up with the Muscle Workouts or learn to stretch and relax with the Yoga poses. Featuring everything from Step Basics to Snowboarding, Rhythm Boxing to Jogging, Wii Fit offers a vast range of entertaining activities that will keep you interested in working out and encourage the rest of the family to give it a try. To help you keep track of your progress, Wii Fit includes a special Wii Fit Channel that allows up to eight people to store and compare their personal fitness profiles, and also takes account of any exercise done away from the Wii Balance Board - ensuring you have an accurate overview of your fitness. And when you do make progress, you won't only be able to see it represented by a graph, but by the changing waistline of your chosen Mii character. Take the first step on the road to a healthier lifestyle with Wii Fit!
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Wii Fit
Comment: Can't fault the speed in delivery of this item. Would recommend this supplier to anyone.
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Summary: Wii Fit
Comment: I bought a Wii Fit from Amazon and it is absolutely brilliant. It is so much fun for the whole family plus you get to exercise. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Great family fun and motivational - but not a substitute for the gym
Comment: This is a great product. My whole family has had fun on this (apart from the newborn baby, although I think there's a way to weigh him on it which would enable me to avoid the baby clinic and never go out of the house). It's well worth the £70 spent on it, but wouldn't be worth more.
The only thing I really want to add to what has been written before is that it isn't a substitute for the gym, unless you mainly use it to encourage you to jog on the spot (which you don't even use the balance board for). I only add this gripe because I bought it after seeing it demonstrated in a leisure centre by promotional staff who were dressed like personal trainers, and reading reviews which suggested it was a suitable gym substitute. It's a really fun game and I love it, but it's a game and most of the exercises are just for fun. It is motivational and probably much better than spending a weekly fee in a slimming club to be weighed in when the Wii Fit can do it for you and even give you a row if you miss a few days.
If you don't want to use it to lose weight (sadly not the case for me after a baby, but it does apply to my older son) then it seems to be rather goal-oriented. It's no substitute for running about in the park in his case, it's just fun and won't on its own maintain fitness. It's a really sociable game and as some other reviewers have said, more party play features would be good - you have to go out and back in as different Miis to play together. Overall, I've had loads of fun with it but I know I have to get out of the house and exercise as well. I highly recommend it as a game, but not as a substitute for other forms of exercise.
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Summary: A novel way to help you get fit for some people, for others a severly nasty wake up call...
Comment: Now i was extremely skeptical about this game when it got released as i didnt believe this game to be any good, but i was wrong as i ended up with a rather novel balance board peripheral and a nice selection of balance games to boot. Up to 8 people can track their progress over a period of time, checking their weight, supplness and awarding points/tips accordingly to tone up.
However this game for some people can be a nasty wake up call to get into shape and some people i will assure you will laothe the way the game can be quite patronising at times; for example small children may get very upset on being called overweight based on the heavily debated BMI Index, and as for me i really didnt like being reminded of the fact that i am very feeble in the muscle department and i find myself strugling to achieve a poxy press up, its gym class all over again...
Pros: A nice supplment to daily excercise
The Balance Board peripheral
Great selection of games/postures/balances
Cons: Game can be very patronising/upseting for some
Some positions are difficult to perform and could cause substantial injury.
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Summary: MUST have - cant call it a game tho!
Comment: 14 days later - still love this.
Such good fun and a workout and a 1/4 if you so desire.
Wii Fit is fundament to the whole ideal of the Wii market audience ie family...
We all have great fun on this - me, husband 10, 8 and even 3 yr old.
We are seriously competative with regards to beating records.
And I have had the whole family in tears at my attempts at heading footballs (ahem football boots and panda heads which I actually exclaim ouch out loud when they connect!)
I love the yoga - my kids love the hilarious boxing coach - husband loves the muscle workouts.
What I love most about this is that I can pop on to my aerobic class whilst tea is cooking - then chill to my yoga class when kids are in bed.
If you are looking for a PT in your living room then buy this.
The board is so sensitive that if you are doing a particular move wrong then it will advise how to adjust yourself as you are in the stance.
Cant wait for the next installment - will be first in line thats for sure.
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