EA Sports Active

Product/Game Information

Platform: Nintendo Wii

ESRB Rating: Everyone

Media: Video Game

Product Features

Game includes a deep co-operative multiplayer game mode.
Engage in fitness made easy through 20 minute circuits feature a variety of familiar activities that target upper body, lower body as well as cardio.
Follow the guidance, motivation and training tip of your very own virtual personal trainer.
30 day challenge' of tailor made 20 minute workouts, that change as you progress each day, and track calories, intensity and progress throughout your journey.
Gameplay/workout options are extended with the included Nunchuck strap and resistance band accessories, and compatibility with the Wii Balance Board (not included).

Product Details

Product Weight: 1.00 pounds

Model: 19045

Manufacturer: Electronic Arts

Release Date: 2009-05-19

Sales Rank: 39

Accessories

Wand for Wii

Price: $29.33

Customer Reviews

Great Workout!,
by Joanna, 2010-03-10

So far, I have really enjoyed EA Active. I don't enjoy working out, so it's hard for me to find something to stick with. I was also nervous that this workout was goign to be boring, but that has not been the case. I have stuck with this workout longer than most. I realy enjoy the 30 day preset workouts. It's something a bit different each day, yet it still doesn't feel overwhelming. I'm pretty out of shape, but I leave each work out feeling like I've done something which is usually followed by a day being pretty sore. My past work outs were strictly aerobic, but this one works everything.

I do have a few complaints though...

1. I'm a pretty tall and lanky person, so the leg strap does not stay very well. I've found that I've needed to wear leggings or somtehing tighter to my skin instead of my preferred sweat pants.

2. During arm exercises involving both remotes and the resistance band, I often feel like the game reads the wii remote too sensitively and it often gets "stuck." It doesn't want to register my crunches so I find myself redoing them more times than needed. I think the game is too picky about how the wii remote is held for each exercise.

I own 4 or 5 wii workout games and this one is definitey my favorite. I think it has given me the most results and is easiest to stick to.

DO IT,
by Joyce A. Dawley, 2010-03-09

GREAT workouts. The instructions are easy to follow. Make sure your batteries are in good shape in your controller or they say you are moving too much

Great workout!,
by Anne Davis, 2010-03-08

If you are looking to sweat, work hard but have fun - this is the work out for you! 1 caveat: make sure the nunchuk is in the holder correctly or it won't register your movements accurately.

Lower Body Workout,
by Jessica Stiner, 2010-03-08

I don't have much time to leave the house to go to the gym being a stay at home mom of 2 boys 3yrs and younger so my husband got this game for me in order to work out while at home. I completed the 30 day challenge on Easy intensity and have started over on Medium. I definitely get a workout from it. I have been sore for over a month of using it and I love it because I know it's doing me good.
The only probs I have with this game is the cardio is lacking. There's only running (which can be intense so it's not so much a complaint) and dancing. The dancing I find to be absolutely pointless. I'd much rather do the running. Even with the balance board I can't stand the dancing. There's no workout to it at all for me.
That and I'm mostly getting a lower body workout from it. I bought different resistance bands because the little rubber band that comes with it was doing nothing for me, even on easy. But even still, the workouts are more for the lower body than upper body unless you customize the workouts yourself strictly for upper body. I set up a custom workout that has nothing but upper body and the boxing that I do right after finishing my workout for the 30 day challenge. I'm going to be investing in the new EA Sports Active game. Hopefully it'll add to my workout.
Overall I gave it 4 stars. It would get 5 if it did just as much for upper body as it does for lower.

Disappointed,
by Tired, 2010-03-08

Wii Active is a huge disappointment. If you don't hold the remote and numchuk in the correct position, the games doesn't "see" what you're doing and it either makes you repeat it until you get it right (meaning the position of the remote and/or numchuk) or it won't let you go on. It also locks up and won't register what you've done at all, no matter what kind of gyrations you try to do to go on. I haven't gotten beyond the first set of workouts because it was so frustrating. The game wastes a lot of time having you take the band off and on, instead doing all the exercises using the band at once. I wouldn't recommend this for anyone.

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