

In this way, the Balance Board knows whether you flub the move or not. You’re given real-time feedback as to your center of gravity you’re trying to stay centered and you’ll get more points if you do. The yoga poses basically have you hold different positions (one leg up, arms in front, for example) for a few seconds each, telling you to breathe in and out while you do so. The first two categories pair you with a virtual trainer who talks you through different exercises in a realistic gym setting. At first, several different games are open to you in four different categories: Yoga, Exercises, Exercise Games and Balance Games.

I pressed on anyway.Īs it turns out, Wii Fit doesn’t give you any sort of specific exercise regimen based on your weight-loss goals: It just keeps that information on file and shows you how close you are, day by day, to achieving your goal.Īfter your daily weigh-in, you can start doing the training minigames. As it turned out, it said that I stood a good chance of rebounding even if I did lose that much weight so quickly. Unrealistic for sure, but I wanted to see what it said. I decided to be ambitious and say I wanted to lose 10 kilograms in two months. You can set your goal weight loss and set a date by when you’d like to lose that much weight. Each exercise minigame keeps track of your high scores, so you always have something to shoot for.īut before you get into that, Wii Fit will ask you to create a profile for yourself. If you’re not keeping the proper form as you do a set of push-ups, it’ll know your stomach is on the ground if it doesn’t feel your hands pushing down on it. If you have to stand on one foot, it’ll know whether or not you exhaustedly drop the other. This is how the game determines whether you’re doing the exercises correctly. Reading how your weight is distributed among each of these lets the board know where your center of gravity is. It works very much like a digital scale, except that, as you can see, it’s divided into four quadrants. The Wiimote is used for some exercises, but mostly it’s the board. The Wii Balance Board, pictured right, is the game’s main controller and comes included with the software.
