Wii Fit flexing its muscles in Europe from 25 April

Wednesday 20 Feb 2008

Nintendo of Europe has announced that Wii Fit will launch across Europe on the 25th of April.

Wii Fit, the latest innovative application for the Wii, has sold over 1.4 million units to date in Japan since its launch there on the 1st of December 2007. The game combines fitness with fun as the whole family can participate in daily exercises.

Wii Balance Board and Wii Fit Channel

Wii Fit comes bundled with the Wii Balance Board, a new accessory developed exclusively for the Wii. The Wii Balance Board is a pressure sensitive, wireless boards that gets placed on the floor in front of the TV. It senses a players weight as well as shift in balance in every direction so when you step on to it during activities, you can imitate on-screen movements.

Wii Fit was designed to increase player’s awareness of how important fitness is everyday. Increase it and make it easier at the same time. With Wii Fit you can track up to 8 people’s progress as well as monitor their performance.

After popping the Wii Fit disc in, a new Wii Fit Channel will be added to your Wii Menu. Once this new channel is added, players will not have to insert the Wii Fit disc to use the Wii Balance Board to scale your weight and calculate your BMI, measure the center of your bodily balance and conduct a balance test to calculate your Wii Fit Age. The channel can also be used to monitor how long you spend on each category of exercise in one day.

Four different training categories

Wii Fit includes four training categories: aerobic exercises, muscle workouts, yoga and balance games. These categories are aimed to develop your bodily balance control ability, help tone and condition muscles, burn fat in the body and help increase aerobic stamina. In addition there are more than 40 different activities within the training categories including Hula Hoop, Ski Jump, Press-Up Challenge, Rhythm Boxing, Rowing Squat and Lunge. There are even classic Yoga poses such as Half Moon, Tree and Crocodile Twist.

The game also features an on-screen fitness trainer who will change his or her verbal instructions depending on how well players perform the activity. Wii Fit combines an accessible and intuitive training programme with helpful tutorials and the Wii Fit Channel to help you on the way to a healthier lifestyle, but perhaps more importantly, to do all this having fun.

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