Jillian Michaels Wii Fit Game
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The Jillian Michaels Wii Fit game stars Jillian Michaels, one of the trainers in the weight loss reality show, The Biggest Loser. Using a combination of the Wii Remote and the Balance Board, you engage yourself in a number of challenges to get your heart pumping and your blood flowing. If you are looking for a companion fitness game to the Wii Fit game, then the Jillian Michaels Wii Fit game could be for you. There are some similarities to this game and the Wii Fit game in terms of movements and types of challenges, but there is enough variety to keep you interested.
Training
There are four types of training you can undertake.
- Strength training focuses on your muscles and gives you challenges that provide resistence to arm, stomach, and leg muscles.
- Weight loss is pure cardiovascular.
- Intervals are very popular when you are fitness training. You start an exercise slow, then you up the tempo or repetitions, then you go back to your original movements, then fast again.
- Hill Climbs combine cardiovascular and strength training.
Types of Motion Based Fitness Exercises
You start each session with a three minute judged run that include some of the following motion-based exercises:
- Punching Bags
- Rowing
- Obstacle Course
- Balance Beam
- Hard Car Challenge
- Monkey Bars
Jillian Michaels Wii Fit Game Difficulties
With three difficulties to choose from, there is no problem with finding a good medium for you to stay consistant. Light, medium, and hard varies up the intensity of each exercise or challenge with longer intervals and more repititions. Within those difficulties, you can also set your time frame from 10 to 60 minutes.
Your Data
The Jillian Michaels Wii Fit Game keeps a track of all the critical data needed to show progress or physical decline. After entering your data, the game keeps tabs on calories burned (through a formula rumored to be the same used in the Dance Dance Revolution games), time trials, the judges scores, and weight, as well as individual challenge benchmarks like high scores and fastest times.
Mulitplayer
One difference is that you can go one on one with a friend. In Wii Fit you can jog with a friend, but in the Jillian Michaels Wii Fit game, you can either compete in single exercises or you can run the entire training course to see who can get the best time. "Competitive Campfire Mode" involves everything. Both options include selecting a difficulty level.
Extras
The more you play the game, the more fitness and food tips you can unlock from Jillian Michaels. These are in the form of videos for you to watch which include the real Jillian Michaels, as opposed to a digitized version in the actual game. Get tips on:
- Training
- Snacking
- Eating out
- Working out while traveling
- How to vary your routine so you won't get bored
- Healthy eating
- Switching up routines
Graphics
The graphics in the game are the worst part of the game. If you remember the "Street Fighter: the Movie" game where real actors were digitized for the motion in the game, then you can visualize the graphics in this game. The background graphics looked like they tried to hard to make it as real as possible, but when you add in the computerized characters, everything just looks bad. Another comparison is that it looks like a bad Sci-Fi original movie with homemade greenscreen effects.
Bottom Line
If you can get over the bad graphics, there is a decent game that can keep you moving. It's an okay alternative to Wii Fit, especially if you are getting bored of hula-hooping and skiing. There aren't too many exercise games out for the Balance Board and while some of the motions of this game are like some of the motions in Wii Fit, the different types of exercises you can do should be enough to be different. Just like you should keep on trucking, you should also keep on exercising.
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Comments
The concept of this game is good - if it worked right. The game does not work right with the Wii remotes - frustrating. Do your research before you waste your money. Wish I had. Now I'm stuck with a $40 game that does not work.
-- Contributed by: Do NOT buy this game!
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