This game, designed for Nintendo Wii, has been developed to help get you in shape with over 500 different exercises from which to choose. The game will evaluate your fitness level, let you log your goals, and personalize your workouts. This is a great overall fitness game that’s been getting positive reviews from its users. It’s compatible with the Wii Balance Board but it’s not required to play.

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5 Responses to “My Fitness Coach”

1. Jerry Edwards says:

   October 4, 2010 at 12:00 am

   I purchased this for my wife as a Birthday present. She absolutely loves it. She thinks the workouts move at a good pace and the program provides great analysis. She finds it much better than the Wii Fitness Plus, though I do think the yoga moves to quickly for my tastes.

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2. Dennis Hayes says:

   October 11, 2010 at 12:00 am

   if anyone wants a good work out u shoulb get this it very cool but u do need help to stick to it

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3. Jerry Patterson says:

   October 25, 2010 at 12:00 am

   I checked the reviews for this game briefly, and it had really high reviews, so I checked to see what the unsatisfied customers said about it. Their comments were that it wasn’t for beginners. I was okay with this since I’d been using Wii Fit Plus for a while and wanted something new.

   It says it’s completely customizable. This is a blatant lie. It allows you to select a general type of exercises (Yoga, Core Muscles, Flexibility, etc) and after several minutes of the same Cardio warm-ups, you’ll do relevant (sometimes) exercises. There is no option to choose a specific exercise, you can’t skip an exercise unless you decide to just stand still and wait it out.

   The virtual fitness trainer will occasionally ask how hard the previous exercise(s) were. I’ve noticed she asks this after particularly simple exercises, so I say “No sweat” and she says she’ll make it harder. She will be mysteriously silent after a lot set of impossible exercises. There is the option to increase or decrease difficulty, but the game has no comprehension of what is a more difficult exercise or what is an easy one. In the Yoga section, the difficulty 0 and 1 exercise set had me doing twists and positions I either didn’t dare do on Wii Fit Plus because it claimed it was for advanced users, or that I had tried and came to the logical conclusion I wasn’t that flexible yet.

   None of the exercises in this game are given any real tutorial. In the Yoga section, the trainer merely called out names of poses and expected me to know them and went from one to the other without waiting for me to catch up. I know the reviews said no beginners, but this was insane. All of the poses in the Yoga set required my head to be facing down or me laying on the group and unable to see the TV screen. After the first and only time of listing off the exercises, she was completely silent, so I had no idea of the timing in which I was supposed to change positions. When I increased the difficulty in hopes of getting some positions I’d heard the names of, the trainer just did things at double speed. She actually just talked faster. That was it. I don’t remember the positions, I just remember how fast she went. Speeding things up doesn’t mean harder, it just means impossible to keep up with.

   On the good points, yes, it will make you work hard and the cardio will certainly get you warmed up. However, most of them are dance moves or warm-up exercises from whatever sports team you might’ve been on in high school, so make sure you have a very large, cleared area for exercising. The virtual workout area is 12 ft by 12 ft (roughly) and she makes use of most of it. I doubt your living room between the TV and couch is quite that spacious. It was nice to have different exercises, especially ones utilizing the workout equipment I already had. On that, I’m not sure if I had a glitch, but some of the exercises she did seemed pointless unless using hand-weights, yet the screen didn’t show her with any. Then other times things would be fine and she’d have hand-weights when it showed I needed to use them.

   I suppose this is cheaper than buying a set of aerobic/dance workout DVDs, and saves me inputting my weight and measurements into whatever exercise-tracking website, but it’s really no fun. I don’t go to gyms and I’ve avoided exercise for as long as I could because I hate working out. I want to enjoy myself doing physical activities and just happen to burn calories along the way. This is excruciating. I won’t even call it a game. It is merely a semi-interactive workout program. It definitely has tons of different exercises you’ve probably never done, and it’ll probably help you lose weight, if you ever decide to use it after the first time. I honestly have to force myself to put this in because I know it’s good for me, much like a child eating veggies. It’s not good and healthy, it’s awful and healthy.

   This isn’t for beginners, it is for people who have been doing yoga and exercise for so long they know the names and moves by heart and just feel like someone telling them what to do at home rather than a gym.

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4. Rose Johnson says:

   October 31, 2010 at 12:00 am

   There are 6 things about My Fitness Coach (or Yourself Fitness, the XBox and PS2 version) that make it a valuable tool for anyone interested in exercising more:

   1. Convenience: Wanna work out? Just turn on your console and get moving within minutes. No driving to the gym or finding a friend to play tennis with you. You can work out for 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes, your choice.

   2. Adjustable challenge: Even if you’re pretty out of shape, you can use MFC. You can start out at a pretty easy pace. As you get stronger, MFC increases in difficulty. At the higher difficulty ranges, you’ll really be sweating.

   3. Variety: Since MFC picks different exercises each workout, there’s always something different to do every day. You don’t have to research new exercises, buy different fitness tapes, or come up with any new routines because Y!F does it for you. If you get hand weights, a stability ball, or a workout step, you’ll get even more exercises that incorporate these itmes added to your routine. And if you’re in the mood for something completely different, there is also a yoga option.

   4. Personalization: MFC asks for your specific fitness information and uses that to make choices about what kind of workout would be good for you and how often you should work out. You could follow these recommendations and never think twice about it. But if you want to tweak it to make it harder, easier, or focus on a different fitness goal (the choices are upper body strength, lower body strength, core, cardio, and weight loss), you can override the choices and pick what you’d like.

   5. Accountability: Even thought the trainer, Maya, is just a sprite, you’ll want to follow your schedule to avoid disappointing her. When you miss a workout, she will mention it. When you stick to your schedule, she praises you and you can unlock new environments and music.

   6. Value: At under $15 dollars used, this title is an absolute steal, especially when you compare the costs of a gym membership or even a fitness magazine subscription. And I’ve even found myself looking forward to exercising each day. If you are at all interested working out more, this is an easy choice.

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5. Richard Rodriguez says:

   October 31, 2010 at 12:00 am

   I really like My Fitness Coach. I train 2 days a week with a real personal trainer (Rachel) and I find My Fitness Coach (Maya) is a good alternative workout. Maya checks periodically to see if the workout is challenging me. You can also ask her to make the workout more difficult if you’re not feeling challenged.

   Things I like:
   1. Maya mixes it up with short sets of different exercises so I don’t get bored. I select 45 minutes.
   2. I can pause the workout so I can get water or find a towel to whip off the sweat.
   3. I can choose a workout focus: Cardio; Upper Body; Lower Body; Core; Yoga, or Flexibility
   4. Periodic fitness checks every few workouts to see how my fitness is improving
   5. Workout is designed for folks that a 7 x 7 foot space to workout.
   6. Workout is designed so I can use a step and weights.
   7. Maya lets me get workout credit for my workouts at the gym or other Wii products.

   Things I don’t like:
   1. Program doesn’t include a feature so you can see your workout history for the past week, month, or year.
   2. Maya’s suggestions for a workout focus don’t seem to be based on the workout credits. Even though the program asks me what type of workout I did, it doesn’t seem to use that information for workout recommendations.
   3. Program is designed for use with hand weights, but Maya never tells you what size weight to use. I would not recommend that beginners use hand weights with this program without doing some research.

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