Exercise

I hesitate to actually call this exercise but then again I did break a sweat and some of the strength training exercises could offer up a challenge once you can open up more reps and difficulties. You start off by choosing a personal trainer, either male or female, both of whom have white skin. Like vampire white, not Caucasian white. I tried working with the male instructor first but found him far too creepy and odd looking so I switched over to the female instructor, who in my opinion has much better people skills than that arrogant male trainer who thinks he’s god’s gift to mankind in his tight fitting shirt. You’re also introduced to your piggy bank. For every minute of exercise you do you receive a coin and coins unlock more exercises and games.

There are four categories of exercise to choose from: yoga, strength training, aerobics and balance games. Plus a favorites section that allows you see your top ten favorite work outs. Yoga and strength training are actual workouts that you do with the trainer leading you. Yoga works on stretching the body and strength training on exercising it. If you work out regularly you’ll know most of the strength training moves that are open at the start. The only one I had trouble with was the push up into a side plank which moved a little fast for me. In fact if you’re completely out of shape the trainers might move a little too fast when they’re doing their motions for any of the workouts, but I guess that is part of the challenge.

Despite each exercise and yoga movement being explained to me before the first time I tried the exercise some took some practice to keep up with. Everything is centered around keeping your balance and keeping centered while performing the movements. In all honesty I could actually see this helping a lot of people. It’s pretty fun and super easy to just get up and do.

The aerobics and balance games are a bit more gamer friendly. Both use your Miis instead of the trainers and task you with doing fun things like hula hooping or blocking soccer balls with your head. I think the Ski Jump was my biggest surprise so far. To set the record straight, my feet at the moment do not have the type of coordination needed to play videogames. One day they may, but not now. If I hadn’t been learning all the movements I would say you could get a pretty good workout done in under an hour. With the exercises open in the beginning you won’t be doing anything that pushes your body too hard but doing anything is really better than nothing.