My Fitness Coach Review
A couple of days ago, my husband purchased the Nintendo Wii’s My Fitness Coach. From the looks of it, I supposed it was supposed to be a close competitor of the Wii Fit.
After taking a brief look at it, I can see several differences between the two. First, My Fitness Coach seems to take what I consider to be a more accurate BMI analysis during the initial profile setup. While I suppose the Wii Fit goes on only height and weight, My Fitness Coach wants you to enter measurements of biceps, chest, waist, hips, and thighs, like a real fitness coach would. It also measures your resting and exercising heart rate to find the optimum rate.
My Fitness Coach does a few things that Wii Fit does not. It focuses on more traditional workouts such as yoga, cardio, upper body, core body, lower body, and flexibility. Maya, the fitness coach, makes suggestions based on your profile, which I like. Maya also chooses the amount of workouts you need each week based on your profile and how much you hope to lose. Of course, since My Fitness Coach doesn’t come with a board like Wii Fit, you have to guesstimate your weight, but one thing I did like was it told you how long to work out and estimated the calories burned at the end of each workout session.
You get cutsie options like where you want to work out (a dojo, a meditation garden, etc) and get to choose your music (80s, latin, techno). Both sections have locked areas that can only be opened through use. When you actually do the workout, there is a tutorial which is slowed down to let uncoordinated people like me learn the steps. You can choose from options such as increasing or decreasing the intensity of the workout and there are the occasional fitness tips.
Overall, I think I will like Nintendo Wii’s My Fitness Coach. It is more serious than the Wii Fit, which seems to focus on fun more than actual workouts sometimes, but it is more personalize than just your everyday workout DVD.