Customer Reviews for My Fitness Coach

My Fitness Coach
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Video Game Reviews of My Fitness Coach

Customer Review: Great, great workout!
Summary: 5 Stars

I have been using this to workout with 3-4 times a week. It is amazing! The entire workout changes every time. You can do a full yoga workout (which is so dynamic it feels like I'm going to a real yoga class). The cardio and strength training REALLY works you. I know people don't like that it doesn't use the wii balance board, but it's so much better that it doesn't. You move your body around the room. You don't have to balance on a tiny little board. The yoga poses are real, and you move your body around on the floor and in real space without worrying about confining yourself to a small rectangle. The cardio workouts are amazing. If it gets too difficult, you just select that you couldn't keep up. So far I've been able to increase my time intervals slowly, and the workouts are still challenging me, a month & a half later. I can see myself really sticking with this routine for a while, because I'm addicted! I feel amazing every time I finish my workout!
(I only have 3 stars for "fun" since it isn't a game...It is a challenge!)

Customer Review: Best Wii game for fitness
Summary: 5 Stars

I purchased this by mistake thinking I bought the second version. This actually turned out to be a good thing. I absolutely love this game. It gives you a great workout and incorporates both aerobics and weight-lifting into one exercise. I have lost 11 lbs in one month, just by doing this three times a week for 45 minutes. It is fun and I actually look forward to doing this. Unlike the Wii Fit Plus, which I stopped playing as soon as I got this, I can actually dedicate 45 minutes to working out instead of wasting so much time flipping through menus and taking the numchucks off and on again. And I love the variety of exercises. My husband also enjoys this and it's amazing to see how different our exercises are, since I have a weight-loss goal and he has a lower-body strength goal.

Please do not buy the second one. It is not at all like the first. If you are also torn between this and the Wii Fit Plus, buy this and save yourself $80. Save the money you'll need later to buy smaller clothes.

Customer Review: Great customized workouts
Summary: 5 Stars

This is an excellent general workout program. On the plus side, I LOVE the flexibility, feedback and customization it provides. They change up the routines based on a number of inputs - how hard you said your last routine was, what kind of equipment you have, what area you want to focus on, etc. I like that you can take credit for "outside" activities, and unlike Wii Fit Plus, you can specify the day you did them. It can give you a very good workout - provided you do 2 things - be honest about how hard you're working and if you find it's too easy, pause and ask it to make things tougher. I also find that even though I specify that I have weights, it doesn't always make much use of them, so I add them to exercises where Maya doesn't use them.
Overall, I prefer this to the Wii Fit Plus, mainly because it offers me a more challenging workout and integrates the exercises into a smooth routine; Wii Fit Plus has all the interruptions while you pick a new exercise and later see where you ended up in the standings.
Just a few very minor negatives: the music is basically elevator music as others have said, so it doesn't add much except a beat; I don't think it makes enough use of your equipment; and when you have to input measurements, it can be difficult and time-consuming. You have to use the A button and aim at a small arrow to select your measurements, and for most of them, you have to start at zero. So for example, if you have 35+ inch hips, you have to aim the remote at a little arrow while it clicks up by 1/4 inches to 35+ inches! Very tedious. Luckily, you only do that every 10 workouts during the physical challenge. But the negatives are minor, and I would highly recommend this product.

Customer Review: Almost perfect
Summary: 4 Stars

Let me start out by saying that this game has been a lifesaver for me this winter. I moved up north from Florida several years ago and I finally broke the cycle of getting out of shape over the winter and starting all over again in the spring. I love just about everything about this game and my complaints aren't true complaints; just things that would make it absolutely perfect for me.

I love that this game tracks your progress and gives you tests to see what areas you need to work on. I have always had a weak upper body and can only do about 25 out of the 40 push-ups required in the fit test. To compensate, the game adds a mini upper body workout to each of my "daily focuses" (this is both a blessing and a curse as I will demonstrate).

The game gives you a choice of equipment that you can add; they include a heart monitor, balance ball, weights and a step. The additional equipment definitely makes your workout more interesting, but it almost becomes a nuisance if you are limited on space. I have a spare "junk" room where I have cleared a roughly 6'x10' space and it's been a challenge getting it set up for this game. My biggest complaint is when the game is moving along quickly (such as in cardio mode) and they throw a step routine into the workout. A step will just appear on the screen in front of the trainer and disappear immediately once she is finished with it while she quickly moves on to the next exercise not requiring a step. Two exercises later, the step might be required again. I wish they would have done a whole series of step exercises so I could drag it into the middle of the floor instead of pushing it off into the corner. The other issue with the step is that, instead of a true aerobic step, I bought the base that props up the Wii balance board. It really is too short for most of these exercises and some of the upper body exercises require you to sit or lay down on the step bench. To compensate, I have my old weight bench set up along the back wall of the room.

I really can's figure out the "yoga" routine at all. For someone who hasn't done much yoga, it's really confusing. First of all, she's not talking to you through it, so you have to watch the screen to see the moves which are basically just a series of bending and reaching. The "flexibility" routine is basically a faster paced yoga routine and I feel really great after doing it, but it still includes a section of cardio to get you limbered up and sweaty (and works in my upper body workout at the end, of course). I wish they would have taken the yoga moves in the flexibility routine, slowed them down and set them to the yoga music.

I feel like I really only get the most out of the routines if I set the duration for 45 minutes and I wish there was a way to combine routines. Last weekend, I decided to try and do a 15 minute cardio routine and 30 minute lower body routine with disastrous results. The cardio was shortened to about 10 minutes after my upper body routine was added in. My lower body routine started out with a five minute warm-up even though I had just done a cardio routine and with yet another upper body routine added to the end, I ended up with roughly a 15 minute lower body routine. Another drawback to the shorter routines is that the game periodically pauses and asks you how you felt after the last set of exercises so it can adjust your workout for next time. With the shorter routines, the game seems like it's constantly pausing and asking you how the last set of exercises made you feel...very frustrating when you have to pick the remote up and click the box every couple of minutes. Also, the boxes that you have to click are very small and it's frustrating trying to get the pointer to choose the right selection. Many times I've clicked the button to find that it's jumped just slightly and clicked on something I didn't mean to click.

My only other complaint is the lack of variety in the exercises; especially in the lower body routine. I remember only ever doing one exercise for my calves and I haven't seen it repeated since. The routine seems like it's really just a variation on plies, squats and lunges. There is a series of squat lunges that finds its way into every lower body workout that makes me want to just shut the game off and walk away. I shouldn't complain too much since I've lost a 1/2" from my thighs in six weeks, but enough already!...My quads are killing me!

Overall I love this game, my overall biggest complaint is that it isn't small space friendly. I imagine most people are probably in the same boat as me. It provides a satisfying workout overall, but you have to be willing to compromise and get creative.