SynopsisExperience a new dimension in interactive fitness with the customizable fun and intensity of EA Sports Active, which comes complete with an adjustable leg band and a resistance band. Establish a personalized workout regimen suited to your fitness goals, and take advantage of the game's holistic approach to balance exercise, nutrition and other lifestyle factors. Whether you're engaging in cardio or testing your strength and agility, you'll find a variety of ways to tailor your fitness program to help you get and stay in shape.EA Sports Active is designed to make active fitness both fun and easy. Make use of your own virtual personal trainer who provides feedback and helps you stay on track toward your fitness goals. Get your body moving in a series of customized exercise routines that target upper-body, lower-body and cardio fitness, and take part in the 30-Day Challenge, which integrates a variety of exercises that gradually increase in difficulty. The unique Wii controls offer new ways to work out and track your achievements: Use your Wii Balance Board (not included) to complete a variety of exercises, and use the included leg band to strap the Nunchuk controller to your leg and see your body's movements tracked on screen in 3D. You can even grab a workout buddy and perform any of the exercises simultaneously in split-screen action.
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If you aren't a kid any more but would like to have a program that tracks your weight and BMI while giving you great graphics and fun games to play while you get your exercise then Wii is for you. I started a week ago with Wii Fit and I still like it. I just bought the EA Sports Active today and it is an improvement over the Fit in that it puts you through the workout and you come out of the session sweating from the effort. It gives you feedback on how you are working out and I found myself running just a little faster.
What's great about it: The graphics and set up make it fun to workout
What's not so great: I started my program and was called away.. it was frozen when I returned - no big