EA Sports Active Accessory Pack - Nintendo Wii

tolles Fitnessprogramm für die eigenen 4 Wände. Hat mir sehr gut gefallen! das Band ist leider ziemlich dünn - ich hoffe es hält die Beanspruchung aus..

Like many people I made a resolution to eat healthy and exercise for 2010. I don't have time to go to a gym and I hate to workout alone. I have the Wii Fit but it just didn't seem to be doing the trick for me so a friend suggested the Active. I've been using it at least 4x a week for the past month and I absolutely LOVE it!! I wake up about 30 minutes earlier in the morning and I'm able to get my workout in and I really feel like I've worked out. I bought the accessories for my boyfriend and he's even been working out with me. The game kind of turns it into a competition and of course we always want to beat each other! I've tried it with the balance board and without and prefer the exercises without it. The only 2 very minor things I don't like are the fact that you can't track your weight using the balance board, you have to manually update it as you lose, and the 30 day challenge won't track workouts that you do outside of it. I was doing the 30 day challenge and decided to workout with my boyfriend and it didn't register the fact that I had worked out. I'd also like to be able to do the 30 day challenge with another person. I've suggested this "game" to several friends since I started it and two of them have purchased it and are using it as often as I do!

I bought mine used and it works well enough. However there are a couple design flaws in the leg band. It is secured over your thigh with a velcro strap but the only part that can stretch is the neoprene (because the strap portion is sewn to velcro which doesn't stretch). That puts extra tension on the neoprene front portion. On mine, the area next to the nunchuck pouch it has torn a bit. It still works but I can see that eventually that's where it will fail. The other flaw is that the velcro should wrap the other way. As it is the loose end faces the inside of my thighs so it catches on the fabric of my clothing. I have to wrap something over it to keep it from catching. That is annoying. The strap should end up on the outside. It's as if it were meant to be worn on my left leg but the EA Sports Active videos clearly instruct wearing it on the right leg. (The software doesn't work right on some exercises if I switch legs... I tried.) As for the resistance band, the hand straps look cheap but it's what you need for using Wii. A second set of hand straps would be nice. I tried different resistance bands with hard plastic handles that I already owned but they don't work well with Wii because you also have to hold the Wii controller and nunchuck. I solved the issue, however, by buying more resistance material (Thera-band or similar) and tied a second length of band with different resistance to the same strap handles. Now I can choose from the two bands which I want to use for a given exercise. The unused one just hangs in a loop out of the way above the one I'm using.

This product is awesome! It has great and fun workouts. You have so much fun that you don't realize that you are excersising. The game tells you when you are doing something wrong, and gives you nutrition advice, and workout advice. Awesome product!

So I bought the new "EA Sports Active: More Workouts" and since I hadn't gotten the original; bought this pack with it. There really isn't any other option but to buy it; but still it would have been nice if they had a higher quality option. The neoprene sleeve that you place the nunchuk in is alright; the material is moderately sturdy and very comfortable to wear. However, it does have the tendency to slip if you put it over slick pants. This is may not hold true for people of different sizes; but I'm size 6 woman and this was an issue. I ended up putting on shorts and just wearing it underneath them and it holds much better to skin. Also, while neoprene is a comfortable material, it does cause you to sweat excessively underneath. This doesn't bother me too much (you'll probably need a shower after the workouts anyway!), but I can see were it may bother others. OVERALL, I would rank the leg strap 4 out of 5. The resistance band to me is the main issue with this package. As someone who admittedly has not the best upper body strength (I use 5 lb. weights for bicep curls and 2 lb. weights for deltoid flys...) the resistance band does not provide enough resistance! I would HIGHLY SUGGEST going out and buying a normal resistance band of your own. They are moderately cheap and will work fine with the game (there are no sensors or anything special in the Wii band); it might even be worth investing in a couple because the amount of weight you want to do in bicep vs. tricep vs. deltoid exercises may be different! OVERALL, I would rank the resistance band 2 out of 5. IN CONCLUSION: You NEED to get this for the game simply because you need the leg strap. To my knowledge, they don't sell the leg strap by itself, so you have to get the horrible resistance band with it. However, do NOT let this from keeping you get the game! IT IS BY FAR THE BEST FITNESS GAME ON THE WII to date and is pretty inexpensive in comparison to other games since you don't need to invest in anything like the Wii Balance Board (although there is an option on the game if you want to use it). It provides a great workout and I'm much more motivated to do this than drag myself to the gym any day!