Top Kinect Fitness Games
UFC Personal Trainer
If you are a fan of MMA, you can incorporate the exercises into your life with this controller-free game. Set goals and meet those goals, all with the guidance of your UFC personal trainer.
Zumba Fitness
Zumba is a unique type of fitness that can tone the entire body with full-body dance moves. When you have Zumba Fitness for Kinect, you can find your rhythm in the comforts of your own home and learn exclusive dance routines that you can take with you to your class or the next party you attend.
EA Sports Active 2
Get active with EA Sports and create customizable workouts and activities that you will enjoy doing on a daily basis. This Kinect game will watch your body’s every move and translate your motions onto the screen. Keep your body guessing, shed the fat, track your progress, and enjoy fitness again.
Your Shape Fitness Evolved
This revolutionary game for Kinect on Xbox 360 gives you access to cutting-edge workouts that were created by fitness experts. Participate in a Yoga class, marital arts, tai chi, dancing sessions, target practice, and more. Take control of your fitness and make your body the controller.
Deepak Chopra’s Leela
This is definitely a different type of “fitness” game for the XBox Kinect, but is both interesting and quite good if you are willing to take the plunge into exploring the area between the conscious and subconscious mind with different gameplay levels. Aimed at reconnecting the mind and body and teaching meditation and relaxation techniques.
Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012
Make exercising fun and customize workouts that interest you. This game is a sequel to Your Shape Fitness Evolved and includes new fitness routines, games, and activities that will enhance your fitness experience.
Body and Brain Connection
You need to keep your brain in shape just like you keep your body in shape. This brain training game integrates brain training and physical training so you can challenge yourself and flex your mind muscle at the same time.
The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout
The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout
Description: Have you ever wondered what it feels like to workout on the ranch? Well you can experience the intense workouts in your living room with Bob and Jillian with The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout and shed the pounds while you tone your body.
Jillian Michaels Fitness Adventure
Jillian Michaels Fitness Adventure
Description: You may not be able to afford to hire Jillian Michaels at your fitness trainer but you can afford to buy this virtual personal training tool. Join Jillian in an interactive adventure in your living room and get the intensity you would expect from this health icon.
Kinect Sports Season Two
Become the ultimate slugger, win the PGA Tour, or serve up an ace on this controller-free game. You can practice several different sports and bring your A-game when you compete against family and friends.
XBox Kinect Games – The Future is Now
Released November 2010, the new KINECT technology in the XBox 360 lets you play XBox games without a controller — KINECT uses a motion sensor to recognize your movements, and a voice recognition system to understand your voice commands. All of the games configured for KINECT scan your body in order to have a baseline upon which to understand your movements in front of the cameras. So far, the fitness games configured for KINECT are falling into one of two categories: Kinect workout and Kinect sports.
WORKOUTS
Your Shape Fitness Evolved
This workout game gives you a choice of martial arts classes led by celebrity trainer Michael George, a weight loss class lead by Michelle Bridges, the trainer for Australia’s “The Biggest Loser” TV series, Tai Chi sessions, or yoga training. With Your Shape Kinect, there are simply hundreds of exercises to do, with new downloadable content to be released regularly. The game’s coach will analyze your actions as you exercise, and correct your form in a real-time mode.
Zumba Fitness
This workout game gives the game-owner a workout with dance sessions. Choose from the Salsa, Reggaeton, Hi-Hip, Merengue, Mambo, Calypso, Rhumba, and Flamenco choices for dance styles, and learn the dance moves from an expert dance teacher. Experts and beginners to dance can both participate, and appreciate the aerobic workout. If your idea of exercise is more in sync with a dance type of routine, and Latin dance especially, then Zumba Kinect for fitness may be worth trying. There is a reason that Zumba is one of the best selling and most popular games of all times on virtually every other game platform!
The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout
This exercise simulation Kinect game, based on “The Biggest Loser” TV series about weight loss, features the trainers from show. The game has over 125 exercises: yoga, warm-ups, cool-downs, cardio-boxing, and circuit training, in addition to the core exercises. XBox 360 LIVE provides support for participation by two to four players
Diet analysis and meal planning are also included, along with a video diary, and a free thirty-day trial membership in The Biggest Loser Club. If you have been a fan of this title on other platforms, you are going to love The Biggest Loser Kinect version of the game without the need for any controllers.
Get Fit with Mel B
This fitness game was created by the famous Spice Girl Mel B working with nutritionists and health experts. You appear on-screen exercising along side of Mel, who monitors your exercise form, gives you tips on how to improve, and encourages you when things get tough. Mel will increase the toughness of your workout as you get better, with the use of such items as step platforms, medicine balls, and resistance bands (not included). Mel B also presents you with a personal nutrition plan.
Which workout is best? We love the martial arts and yoga orientation of Your Shape Fitness Evolved, and Zumba Fitness Kinect is so much fun you don’t realize the great workout you’re getting from all that dancing. But, both games don’t seem to have the personal touch that the other two do have. Mel B, exercising on the screen right next to you, makes your workout fun, so her workout game comes close. But, we have to give the award for best KINECT workout to The Biggest Loser — the game just has so much challenge, variety and flexibility.
SPORTS
This sports compilation game features you playing Beach Volleyball, Tennis, Dodge Ball, Boxing, Kendo, Archery, Snowboard Cross, Mogul Skiing, and even Paintball! Play the same way you play in real life. Go online to compete against other DECAthletes to see who’s best. Deca Sports Kinect is a great package of games to get you moving and engaged in a fun and less structured type of exercise or just play for fun with friends and family. But you might be surprised how much exercise you get anyway playing Deca Sports games.
Kinect Sports features six sports, both individual and team-based. You can try Beach Volleyball, Soccer, Table Tennis, Boxing, Bowling, and Track and Field. You can go for solo, competitive, and cooperative modes of play, and Sports Party mode lets a whole room of people play, almost like a tag team wrestling match. Kinect Sports will keep you entertained for hours if you can stand that long! This, like the other Kinect sports games, is not technically a fitness game or workout game, but the nature of the Kinect makes almost any game a type of workout just because you are standing and moving around to control the game play. Add to that some jumping and kicking and swinging your arms around like you do in this game, and you will definitely feel it the next day after the first few times you play any of the games in Kinect Sports.
This game lets you play solo or as part of a team for Soccer, Football, Boxing, Skiing, Hang-Gliding, and Horseback Riding. You control a realistic avatar in an authentic sports venue. Motion Sports Kinect captures video of your avatar’s performance, and broadcasts it on an inside-the-game sports program, with live commentary on the action. Track your achievement in each sport, and share the results online.
Which sports game is best? All three make you feel like you’re playing the sport right there in your living room, and all three accurately duplicate the movement, body positions, and action of the sports. But, if we have to pick one, we’ve got to say Motion Sports, if only for the in-game sports show and commentary.
COMBO WORKOUT/SPORTS
Then there’s EA Sports Active Kinect 2.0, which is a blend of both sports and workout. This game is unique in that it has a biometric heart rate monitor as part of the exercise routine. The game has over seventy activities and exercises, each of which you can track locally and online globally. You can even join a current 9-Week Program, an online feature designed by certified personal trainers to provide total body conditioning using progressive exercise routines. What’s our call? We’ll just have to pick Sports Active as the best combo game for the XBox KINECT 360.
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