My Fitness Coach for Wii Reviews by Gamers

My wife received this game from her wish list and she loves it. You start the game by entering in your height, weight, body measurements and performance on some athletic challenges. Then it assesses your physical fitness and areas you need work. You can set weight goals and you can use a calendar to set workout goals for every day of the week.

You start with a set number of environments and music to choose from but you can unlock new ones the more you play.

You can tailor what kind of workout you want, lower body, upper body, core, cardio, yoga, and how long you want to work out for, 15min-60min+. This is a great feature because it takes you through an entire workout, warm-up to cool down. It also allows you to input what kind of exercise equipment you have available, fitness ball, heart rate monitor, step, etc., and will incorporate the items you have into your workouts. She's already lost 10 pounds working out everyday.

The only complaint she has, so far, is that when the trainer asks how you're doing during the workout, the reply options boxes are very narrow and it's easy to say "No sweat," when you really mean, "I was working hard!" The workout will get harder, easier or remain the same given how you answer those questions. Fortunately, you can modify the intensity of workout on the fly by clicking the "-" or "+" on the Wii remote.

It really is like having a personal trainer at home. It's great if you don't have time or money to join a big gym or don't like working out with strangers.

In comparison to Wii Fit, my wife prefers the Fitness Coach. She still uses Fit to track her weight and BMI daily but the structure of the workouts in Fitness Coach are much more useful for her.