First I want to say that I love Jillian. She is an inspiration and the first fitness guru I know of that really encourages the obese to work on getting inside their heads in addition to working out and eating better. I love that about her.
But this game, compatible with the Wii Fit, is in many ways disappointing. I should preface that I've only used the game twice so far (1/2 hour on aerobic, and 1 hour on strength), so I may not have seen all the features or issues. 1) I didn't figure out right away how to include the Fit board in the workout. With the help of another user I did get it functioning, but I think for the running in place portions it's a better workout for me to run on the floor. So I'll try that and try using the board only for the other exercises 2) I can't tell the difference between the strength training routines and the aerobic routines. Aerobic intersperses jogging in place with exercises like monkey bars, kayaking and punching bag. As opposed to the strength training routine which intersperses jogging in place with exercises like monkey bars, kayaking and punching bag. And I have to tell you, after an hour workout this afternoon, I've had about all of the jogging in place I can stand. I haven't checked out interval training yet, but I'm betting it involves jogging in place interspersed with exercises like monkey bars, kayaking and punching bag. 3) The controllers are either very slow to respond, insensitive to respond or, in some cases don't seem to have any response. For instance, one exercise involves jogging in place (surprise!) and then ducking to the center, right or left to avoid being clobbered by a punching bag flying out of the trees. My avatar could successfully avoid the bag when ducking to the center, but I was not successful in avoiding any of the side shots. No matter how I "ducked" the avatar was completely unresponsive. As for the jogging in place (and there is a lot of it!) it doesn't recognize swinging of the arms as simulated jogging would be done. You have to actually wave your arms- for instance I pretend like I'm playing the drums- and it works pretty well. Log Balance involves holding arms out to the side (while "balancing" on a floating log- I could do ANYTHING with my arms and the "game" was none the wiser. But, regardless of responsiveness my arms were sure tired by the end of 4 minutes of holding them out at shoulder height! 4) On the Stats page the graphic displays are awkward and hard to view or find the data points.
On the positive side- yes, I had to put more effort into it to get the controllers to sometimes respond... but this is an EXERCISE game. So the more effot the better, right? By the end of my hour workout (which really did go by quickly because it was broken up into 3.5 minute segments), my shirt was soaked in the front and my bodybugg tells me I burned more than 400 calories. That's pretty cool! The next day my thighs and butt were really sore. I do also like the soundtrack- it is better than the Wii Fit and better than any of the workout DVDs I have.
I'll be looking forward to the improved version of this game. My impression of Jillian is that she would want the best product possible and hopefully because her name is on this she will push to have them fix the frustrating issues. Until then I'll continue to use this game, maybe not every day- but as an option.
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