Thinking about buying a Kinect for exercise

Yeah, I have the Adventures and play Zumba with my friend. It's a good workout, you do actually sweat! I play for about 40 minutes when I do play it. It's good when you feel like having fun or if it's raining outside and you can go for a jog hah

I have the EA Sports game for Kinect and I LOVE IT!!!!!! You can definitely break a sweat, plus, it's just fun.. Lol. In addition to the workout games, I also use Dance Central. It doesn't even feel like exercising..

I totally recommend it. OF COURSE, that's only if you're actually gonna use it. It would be a waste to buy it, play with it for about a week, then call it quits.. Lol

I have one. It's good fun. I don't do it for 'proper' exercise, but do play on it with my daughter, and it's a nice way for us to do a bit of 'keep fitting' together. I have the Your Shape: fitness evolved game, and one of the dance games. These could both give you an adequate workout, I think. Also, things like kinect adventures are good just for getting off the couch a bit.

I have the Your Shape Fitness Evolved for Kinect. I haven't long been using it but I love that it tells you when you aren't performing an exercise correctly, so you're less likely to slack than you are with something like Wii Fit. I also play Dance Central which is great for cardio and fun at the same time!

I have. I have played the game that comes with it., Motion Sports and Dance Central. The Adventure game that comes with it has several games that are very challenging, especially the obstacle course. Everytime i do it, I sweat like crazy!!
I wanted to get the biggest loser game, but haven't yet, it's supposed to be great.
I do recommend this because you have to use your whole body to run the game, not just your wrist like the WII.
We got this for Christmas and played it almost every day and I lost 5 lbs over the holiday.

We recently bought a kinect due to how much we enjoy wii's just dance 2 (great game). We purchased Dance Central for the kinect. Its a great rainy/too friggin hot day exercise. A few words of caution about the kinect.

1. It's gimmicky- The kinect has been used mostly by third party developers to crank out poorly designed games. There are a few fantastic titles for the kinect, with more on the way, but before you buy, look up some ign.com reviews on the various titles available for fitness (my recommendations are, dance central, biggest loser series, and ufc trainer) Also, watch youtube videos of these games in action and you can get a pretty good idea of what to expect.

2. You need PLENTY of room- we live in a small rental house right now, while we are looking for a permanent home. There is about 10-11 feet between the kinect and our play area...you really need between 14-17 to play perfectly comfortably. It still works great though.

3. A plus for the kinect- Full integration for the xbox 360 is coming out soon...this means full kinect integration with the menu, netflix, live tv, so on and so forth.

4. NO CO-OP MULTIPLAYER ON DANCE CENTRAL! This one was a surprise for my wife and I. Co Op is treated as a "dance battle" where you take turns dancing through sections of songs. We solved this problem by doing calisthenics when we weren't dancing. Dance Central 2 WILL have simultaneous multiplayer.

All in all, if you are a wise consumer, and research the products that you buy before you buy them (and buy them used), the kinect can definately help you break a sweat... I HIGHLY recommend Dance Central. Bottom line...research games on IGN.com, watch youtube vids of gameplay, and you can't go wrong. Or just take the 200 dollars or so you would spend and take a martial arts class

If I go over calories and don't feel like working out very much, I play Dance Central on the Kinect. I'm definitely sweating well before I'm done. I just make sure to play long enough for it to actually count as a decent workout. I have workout games with it, but I prefer the cardio that Dance Central provides and almost always play that instead.

I am NOT a dance fanatic by any means-- in fact, I'm "toe-tag white" when it comes to rhythm and won't even do it in front of my family, but I'm loving Dance Central more than 6 months later. The fight program doesn't pick up some of the moves accurately (which could just be the lighting at my house), but it definitely gives a good workout and the general games are fun and keep you moving. The Biggest Loser Workout works for me. You can either choose a program or not. It does NOT allow/compensate for things such as knee injuries, but it is a good little work out with several different levels and goals. I hope this is helpful.

I don't have a Kinect, but I have the EA Sports Active 2 for the Wii. They also make the game for Kinect. I use it all the time and every workout I do on there, I'm sweating!

Two thumbs up for Kinect. It's the only "working out" my husband and I do. We have both lost a significant amount of weight. Kinect Sports, Dance Central and Your Shape Fitness Evolved are the ones we enjoy the most.

We bought it this past Christmas and have gotten more than our moneys worth. It's just plain fun!