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EA SPORTS Active More Workouts gives users the benefit of a personal trainer in a box and will help them to stay on track to reach their fitness. Abdominal Exercises. Oct 30, 2009 This is the first expansion pack of content for the fitness game EA Sports Active, offering more focused and intensive core exercises to play.

EA SPORTS Active More Workouts gives users the benefit of a personal trainer in a box and will help them to stay on track to reach their fitness goals. Get inspired, get motivated and get active!

More Workouts features over 35 new exercises to create unlimited combinations of customizable exercise routines that target the upper and lower body, as well as cardio. New to the EA SPORTS Active franchise will be an emphasis on abdominal exercises including curl ups, crunch and punches, as well as a warm up/cool down feature.

An all-new presentation will bring users to the tropics and will immerse them in warm weather activities like waterskiing and paddle surfing. The product will also feature the Six-Week Challenge – another step in the journey towards better health and fitness with new daily workouts that ramp up in intensity each week. Features • Benefit of a Personal Trainer in a Box— Similar to a personal trainer, the program provides clear instruction, feedback on technique and encouragement, while also providing calories burned in real time. • Six-Week Challenge—This personalized full body challenge will give users a new customizable weekly schedule and a weekly check-in with the virtual trainer to track calorie, weight and workout goals.

• Full Body Circuit Workout Routines— The specially designed leg strap holds the Nunchuk while the Wii Remote is held in hand to track upper and lower body movements. A resistance band increases the intensity of exercises such as bicep curls.

Leg Strap and Resistance Band sold separately. • Warm up and Cool down— Eight all-new warm up and cool down exercises that stretch muscles before and after workouts to help prevent aches and injury. • Abdominal Exercises—All-new detectable abdominal exercises help tone abs and strengthen the mid-section of the body. • Personal Trainer to More Workouts—Profiles and results achieved in Personal Trainer can be transferred to More Workouts. • Track Your Journey—To encourage overall wellness, there is a journal that allows user to set goals and track progress – accounting for activities both in and outside of software – while also providing all-new nutrition and fitness tips. • Workout Your Way—For optimal personalization, circuits can be customized based on interests and fitness level and there is complete flexibility for the duration and intensity level.

Much as Nintendo's Brain Age spawned a pile of imitators on Nintendo DS, Wii Fit has taken the exercise game from niche oddity to full-fledged genre. So far, EA Sports Active leads the pack of copycats, delivering a wide variety of exercises and since its U.S. And European launches in May. I spent several weeks playing Electronic Arts' game, which came out in Japan this week, after largely abandoning Wii Fit. Advanced Mechanics Materials Cook Young Pdf Writer. (I gave Nintendo's game a similarly earlier this year.) While the Balance Board-equipped Wii Fit has many good points, it takes too long to work up a sweat when playing: After every exercise, you are booted back to the main menu to select another. Repeating the same exercises gets boring, too. EA promised that its game would vary routines every day and give you a 20-minute workout in 20 minutes, not an hour.

EA Sports Active is much easier to work into my daily routine, since I never feel like it's wasting my time. It delivers more of what I want out of a workout, making it the better choice for me. That said, EA Sports Active is not nearly as polished as Nintendo's game. The elastic resistance band is used in lieu of weights for upper-body workouts; you stand on it and pull up on the rubber band when you're doing biceps curls, shoulder raises, etc. The leg strap is for lower-body workouts — you insert the Wii's Nunchuk controller attachment into the strap so the game knows where your leg is moving. Every time you turn it on, EA Sports Active creates a different workout for you, stringing together 20 to 30 minutes' worth of exercises. While you can create custom workouts, the ones generated by the software are balanced, switching back and forth between different body parts so as not to overwork anything in a single session.