The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout for Xbox 360 and Kinect R
ruthie3110
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The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout for Xbox 360 and Kinect.
After weeks of nagging my boyfriend to let me buy it, I finally got it yesterday! I’ve not used it a lot yet, but from first impressions I love it. Plus it was only £15 pre owned!!!
There is a summary of good and bad points at the bottom if the length of this scares you! I tend to go on a bit!
The first thing I did when I got the game home was do a fitness test. This started with a warm up and light exercise, then you could choose to stop it there or try moderate. Then when moderate finished you could choose to stop there or move on etc. There were also points in each section where it would ask you a question, and there were set answers on the screen. Variations of “This is too easy”, “Yeah, this is ok for me” or “I need to stop or I’m going to collapse!”.
As long as you speak to it like it’s stupid it will recognise your voice fine. I had some problems at first until I started to speak slower, then it worked fine.
It would also as you every now and then if you wanted to stop for water, you could refuse and carry on, or accept and it would give you a water break before the next exercise. If you kept saying no eventually it would force you to stop and go get some water, as it did with me!
I had to stop after moderate, because, although I’d managed to survive moderate, I knew I didn’t stand a chance with anything heavier! So I chose to end the fitness test and it recommended for me to undertake the weight loss program, with a choice of 4, 8, or 12 weeks. (I think by this point I’d already inputted my starting weight)
Either before or after choosing the program (also it gave me the option to pick one manually if I didn’t want to do one it chose) I can’t quite remember, it took me to body analysis....
This is where I stood like an idiot in the middle of my front room getting confused! I finally realised what I was meant to do, which was stand in the same shape as the outline on screen, very obvious! After doing this it told me from scanning me it had got X cm for my neck, hips and waist measurements and it thought I was X cm tall. Now my neck said 72cm... I normally work in inches, but even I knew this was wrong!! Ladies, a word of advice, wear your hair up!! It was measuring the diameter of my neck from my hair draped oh so sweatily and elegantly over my shoulders! Luckily you can do another one, so I restarted the analysis and got a much, much smaller number that I think is pretty close to accurate. I may add I don’t have a tape measure so I’m not 100% on these bits.
It also got my height at only 4cm shorter than I really am which I thought was pretty good going to say it has nothing to compare my height to. From some quick calculations, my waist and hip seem very accurate too!
If you know your measurements you can input them yourself if its numbers disagree with yours, which is what I did about my height.
From this I then went on to put in a goal weight.. Ah yes I remember now.. THIS was where I set my program!! After I set my goal weight it asked me how long I wanted it to take, I chose 8 weeks, and to work out 4 times a week for 30 minutes.
Now when I went to do my first workout, it asked how long I wanted my workouts to be, and as I’d already completely worn myself out on the fitness test I chose less than 20 minutes.
You also get to choose your trainer, I chose Jillian, and got Bobs voice with Jillian’s body!! But then later on she started speaking too.
On a couple of moves it didn’t recognise me so well, despite it looking, from the little me in the corner, like I was doing it perfectly. This however doesn’t bother me, although it may some, as I’m still working out even if it doesn’t recognise it. The jogging was the worst for recognising me but I do think I was too close to the TV.
If you are doing the exercise right, the little you in the corner goes green, if you are doing it wrong it goes red, simple as! Also if you are doing it wrong, it flashes up what you need to do to fix it, such as lunge width, arm movement, squat depth etc.
I love the little me in the corner by the way. I’m still amazed by the Kinect despite having had it a while now, so anything that literally puts me in the game is fantastic!!
There was a little blue meter up in the top left hand corner that was filling up and I soon realised this was showing me how far through my workout I was. A relief as I was tiring out very quickly and it was good to see it move along!
During the workout, despite it being the same fitness level as the test I’d just done, I didn’t repeat an exercise once! Which is good, there are quite a few different exercises, including some I’d never done before in my life.
After I’d finished the workout it gave me a break down of my best move, and my worst! And how many calories I’d burned (supposedly). It then gave me a daily task. The first task was to customize my character. That I’m pretty sure was modelled on how the Kinect saw me. HUUUUGE stomach...
But anyway, that was quite simple, takes some getting used to moving your hand around properly but if you have a steadier hand than me you’ll be fine. And trust me that will be most of you!!
After I’d done this I was done for the day. So I decided to look at a challenge or two as well! If you have any problems with jogging as I did, avoid slip stream I think it was!! That appears to be all jogging!
Another thing... Make sure you have enough room to fit sideways across your floor! You do arm and leg extensions and I was hitting my sofas on each side!
To summarise:
Good points:
• Lots of variety
• Fitness test
• Body analysis quite accurate
• Your character appears to be your shape
• Watching yourself on the screen
• Voice recognition
• Automatically sets a program if you want it to
• Tells you what you are doing wrong
• Breakdown of good and bad exercises
• Meter to show progress through section
• Gives you water breaks
Bad points
• Bob’s voice when I chose Jillian?!
• Didn’t recognise me jogging
• Needed more room than I expected
From my experiences with the game so far, it looks set to be a really fun and varied workout, and I definitely feel like I want to stick with it for some time.
After weeks of nagging my boyfriend to let me buy it, I finally got it yesterday! I’ve not used it a lot yet, but from first impressions I love it. Plus it was only £15 pre owned!!!
There is a summary of good and bad points at the bottom if the length of this scares you! I tend to go on a bit!
The first thing I did when I got the game home was do a fitness test. This started with a warm up and light exercise, then you could choose to stop it there or try moderate. Then when moderate finished you could choose to stop there or move on etc. There were also points in each section where it would ask you a question, and there were set answers on the screen. Variations of “This is too easy”, “Yeah, this is ok for me” or “I need to stop or I’m going to collapse!”.
As long as you speak to it like it’s stupid it will recognise your voice fine. I had some problems at first until I started to speak slower, then it worked fine.
It would also as you every now and then if you wanted to stop for water, you could refuse and carry on, or accept and it would give you a water break before the next exercise. If you kept saying no eventually it would force you to stop and go get some water, as it did with me!
I had to stop after moderate, because, although I’d managed to survive moderate, I knew I didn’t stand a chance with anything heavier! So I chose to end the fitness test and it recommended for me to undertake the weight loss program, with a choice of 4, 8, or 12 weeks. (I think by this point I’d already inputted my starting weight)
Either before or after choosing the program (also it gave me the option to pick one manually if I didn’t want to do one it chose) I can’t quite remember, it took me to body analysis....
This is where I stood like an idiot in the middle of my front room getting confused! I finally realised what I was meant to do, which was stand in the same shape as the outline on screen, very obvious! After doing this it told me from scanning me it had got X cm for my neck, hips and waist measurements and it thought I was X cm tall. Now my neck said 72cm... I normally work in inches, but even I knew this was wrong!! Ladies, a word of advice, wear your hair up!! It was measuring the diameter of my neck from my hair draped oh so sweatily and elegantly over my shoulders! Luckily you can do another one, so I restarted the analysis and got a much, much smaller number that I think is pretty close to accurate. I may add I don’t have a tape measure so I’m not 100% on these bits.
It also got my height at only 4cm shorter than I really am which I thought was pretty good going to say it has nothing to compare my height to. From some quick calculations, my waist and hip seem very accurate too!
If you know your measurements you can input them yourself if its numbers disagree with yours, which is what I did about my height.
From this I then went on to put in a goal weight.. Ah yes I remember now.. THIS was where I set my program!! After I set my goal weight it asked me how long I wanted it to take, I chose 8 weeks, and to work out 4 times a week for 30 minutes.
Now when I went to do my first workout, it asked how long I wanted my workouts to be, and as I’d already completely worn myself out on the fitness test I chose less than 20 minutes.
You also get to choose your trainer, I chose Jillian, and got Bobs voice with Jillian’s body!! But then later on she started speaking too.
On a couple of moves it didn’t recognise me so well, despite it looking, from the little me in the corner, like I was doing it perfectly. This however doesn’t bother me, although it may some, as I’m still working out even if it doesn’t recognise it. The jogging was the worst for recognising me but I do think I was too close to the TV.
If you are doing the exercise right, the little you in the corner goes green, if you are doing it wrong it goes red, simple as! Also if you are doing it wrong, it flashes up what you need to do to fix it, such as lunge width, arm movement, squat depth etc.
I love the little me in the corner by the way. I’m still amazed by the Kinect despite having had it a while now, so anything that literally puts me in the game is fantastic!!
There was a little blue meter up in the top left hand corner that was filling up and I soon realised this was showing me how far through my workout I was. A relief as I was tiring out very quickly and it was good to see it move along!
During the workout, despite it being the same fitness level as the test I’d just done, I didn’t repeat an exercise once! Which is good, there are quite a few different exercises, including some I’d never done before in my life.
After I’d finished the workout it gave me a break down of my best move, and my worst! And how many calories I’d burned (supposedly). It then gave me a daily task. The first task was to customize my character. That I’m pretty sure was modelled on how the Kinect saw me. HUUUUGE stomach...
But anyway, that was quite simple, takes some getting used to moving your hand around properly but if you have a steadier hand than me you’ll be fine. And trust me that will be most of you!!
After I’d done this I was done for the day. So I decided to look at a challenge or two as well! If you have any problems with jogging as I did, avoid slip stream I think it was!! That appears to be all jogging!
Another thing... Make sure you have enough room to fit sideways across your floor! You do arm and leg extensions and I was hitting my sofas on each side!
To summarise:
Good points:
• Lots of variety
• Fitness test
• Body analysis quite accurate
• Your character appears to be your shape
• Watching yourself on the screen
• Voice recognition
• Automatically sets a program if you want it to
• Tells you what you are doing wrong
• Breakdown of good and bad exercises
• Meter to show progress through section
• Gives you water breaks
Bad points
• Bob’s voice when I chose Jillian?!
• Didn’t recognise me jogging
• Needed more room than I expected
From my experiences with the game so far, it looks set to be a really fun and varied workout, and I definitely feel like I want to stick with it for some time.
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Thanks for the great summary! I also just bought the Kinect for the Xbox360 and bought the Dance Central game. It actually is very fun and gives you the time/calories that you've done. I was also thinking about getting Zumba but haven't read about that one yet. For now I'm just gonna check this game out and take it from there
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I just got one too...but I'm not sure if I like it or not. I'm leaning towards not liking it so much in that I'd rather just put in a DVD and get started without all the setup...I'm hoping it saved my stuff somewhere! Didn't do the fitness test - may try that next.
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Hi, I've got this and would really like to give it a try however it doesn't pick me up when I'm waving at the beginning of the game. I know it's not my Kinnece sensor cause it picks me up when I abopt the pause position and the sensor picks me up for Zumba. Any tips on how to get it to work would be greatly received, thanks0
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It sounds awesome - might have to go get me a second hand version now too! x0
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