To Kinect or not Kinect...that is the question.

We have enjoyed EA Sports Active for the Kinect and for the Wii. But we found Your Fitness Evolved (or whatever it's called) for the Kinect really boring. I guess it seems too much like "work" to be fun for us. You can see yourself moving, which is cool. But EA Sports has more bright colors and "game-y" elements like soccer or dodgeball or mountain biking so it seems a bit more fun. I am not that impressed with the Kinect yet, but my husband likes it. It times out a lot -- the camera loses track of who you are and you have to wait for it to recognize you again, so it disrupts the workout several times each session. But it's kind of cool. We have not tried Dance Central for Kinect.

I get a great workout with the kinect I love Dance Central, EA Sports & Zumba so far

The only time it times out is when you move out of the camera's range. It gives you a good amount of warning on the screen before it pauses the game though.

hah... the best workout I've ever gotten since I was playing football in high school is the Kinect Sports Boxing!

A few times per week I'll come home from work, move the coffee table, attach 5lb weights to both hands, turn up the skill level to "Professional" and duke it out for about an hour on that game. I am ordering an HRM today because I just have no idea how many calories I'm burning. I will say that within a couple minutes, my heart rate is definitely at the cardio level and it stays there throughout the workout without a doubt.

I use the "Professional" skill level because that way the computer beats me at about a 2:1 ratio. It's challenging and gets my adrenaline pumping really hard and makes me work a lot harder. It is a total blast and if I were to estimate right now, I bet I'm burning 400+ calories per hour with it.... and that hour goes by REALLY fast.

There is a video on YouTube where a guy used an Exerspy to determine how many calories he was burning playing Kinect Sports. He boxed and did the track and field stuff for 20 minutes. In that 20 minutes, he burned 120 calories.

I have also played Your Shape Fitness a couple times. I will say the first time I played this game... well my legs are still a little sore right now and that was back on Monday. No, the game isn't necessarily fun but it's basically the equivilant of doing a work-out DVD except you will burn way more calories because it will catch you if you're half-assing it.

Hope this helps!

I'm not a gamer in any way, shape or form. We got the Kinect for our son for Christmas, and it's a blast! This is the third 360 we've had in the house (fifth Xbox — Microsoft stuff seems to crap out often, LOL, but that's a whole different subject), and it's the first time I've touched one. I work out regularly, and it didn't take me long to work up a sweat playing the different games on Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures. We bought Dance Central a couple of days ago and plan to try that out tonight. I am not very coordinated at all, so this ought to be interesting...

I have dance central and it's great!!