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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I use a fitness heart rate monitor during workouts. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the workouts are definitely substantial and duplicate sustained heart rate outputs equal to what I was doing in a gym. I will buy additional EA Active products in the future and find this to be a wonderfully easy product to use.
I would like to see hand weight add-ons to increase the upper body workouts that make is easy to hold the remotes with the added resistance. I have separately purchased more resistance bands, but if the extra resistance could be attached to "me" (my arms or wrists) movement could be smoother during the upper body workouts.
What's great about it: Gets heart rate up, explains movements for exercises, easy to use
What's not so great: only comes with one resistance band; difficult to use dumb bells with remotes in your hand