EA Sports Active : The Answer to Your Fitness Goals
Written by Post on February 10th, 2010 in Health & Fitness.
EA Sports Active can help you meet your fitness goals. What is EA Sports Active? It’s a new game for your Wii system that offers exercise and sports activities.Bob Greene, best known for being Oprah’s personal trainer and the author of The Best Life Diet, consulted on the design of this game with EA Sports.Actually, the company likes to call Wii Active a “personal trainer in a box” and not a video game. EA Sports Active is joining the workout game industry that was started with the Wii Fit from Nintendo.This new fitness video game has even greater potential for helping you to meet your fitness goals.
How Will Wii Active Help You Achieve Your Fitness Goals?
Unlike Wii Fit, Wii Active allows you to have continuous play workouts.You continue exercising through 20 minute circuits that really get your heart pumping. These workouts were developed with Bob Greene’s input.You can focus on particular areas of your body like strength training or cardio for your upper or lower body. You can even link them together to make challenging workout routines.
Wii Active Personal Trainer has the option of designing customized workouts. You can use these if you need to focus on a particular area. You can customize the workout as much as you like.The virtual personal trainer is always available to provide feedback and will let you know when your workouts need to increase in intensity.
The game comes with two accessories that help you make the most of the exercises provided. A leg strap attaches to your thigh and you place the nunchuck into the strap. This allows the game to give you feedback on your leg motions as well as your arms.The intensity of the exercises can be increased by using the resistance game that comes as an accessory of the game.
Wii Active includes both sports activities and exercises.Basketball, tennis and volleyball are just a few of the included sports activities. The game also has exercises like lateral raises, squat jump and lunges.Although it isn’t required to play the game, the Wii balance board that comes with Wii Fit is also compatible with the volleyball, inline skating, basketball and cardio boxing activities to name just a few.
The calendar feature tracks your Wii Active workouts. It also allows you to track your exercise activities and workouts outside of the game. So if you ran on the treadmill for 30 minutes that day, you can also record that on the game’s calendar.
The 30-day challenge that is part of Active is another great way to keep your workouts interesting. The challenge consists of 30 days of 20 minute circuits. These exercise workouts are designed specifically for your fitness level.It tracks your calories and intensity levels as well. Graphs are given to provide visual feedback.
One of the key features of EA Sports Active is the multiplayer mode. Both you and an exercise buddy can use the program at the same time.Complete your workouts together by purchasing an additional resistance band and leg strap, sold as a separate accessory bundle. You can even challenge your workout partner, and the game will tell you who won based on each player’s fitness level.
Achieving your fitness goals has never been easier than with EA Active.Having the potential to keep variety in your exercise workouts, this Wii game provides feedback from a virtual personal trainer that helps you to see your progress towards the goals that you set. EA Sports plans to develop expansion packs to this game which will target specific areas of the body.
