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"Game has a purpose in an overall fitness program"
This "game" is a pretty neat concept and for a first of its kind workout program is pretty good...better than I had expected. When you first start the program you create a "player". They put you through a series of questions and exercises to see what level they need to start you at. Questions include your weight, etc., what equipment you have (weights, exercise ball, step, heart rate monitor) and then ask you to do different exercises for a certain time to see how in/out of shape you are. Once you have done all of this you are ready for a workout. It asks you how much time you have for your workout. Then you choose what type of workout including cardio, upper body, lower body, yoga type of stretching etc. You choose your location (you get more to chose from the more you work out). It asks you several times throughout the video how you feel in order to give you the right level of difficulty. It gives you a running bar at the bottom to see what exercise you are on right now, what level of difficulty and what is coming up next. These are helpful. Also tells you the heart rate you should be in if you have heart rate monitor. Negatives: When you are doing the warm-up/aerobic part of the routine that begins most of the workouts, the "instructor" does not make smooth transitions from one exercise to the next. I have learned to just watch the bars at the bottom and make smooth transitions myself (thus be out of step with the instructor). Also, there seem to be the same 5 or 6 moves in the aerobic section...they just don't repeat them in the same order. This can be good for someone wanting non-complicated moves with little variety. I am quiet overweight but in better aerobic shape than I look and am able to keep up well with the program.

"Great motivator"
I know almost nothing about exercise. I've always wanted to have a good exercise program, but I can't afford a personal trainer and gyms intimidate me. Yourself Fitness has worked out just like I hoped it would - as a motivating personal trainer that keeps me exercising in the privacy of my home. I like it. And, even better, my wife likes it! From my perspective as a video game junkie, ANY game my wife likes is a great game, since it helps her put up with all the time I spend gaming!

"Good overall"
I liked this software overall, but I wish I could pick exersizes myself.

"This actually works"
My husband and I bought this after reading about it, only because it was on sale after christmas. In the back of my mind I thought it would probably end up in the garbage but whatever, it was cheap. We have now been using this product for 6 months and I have lost 12 pounds, doing this for 3 to 5 times a week and eating everthing I like in moderation. The 5 different workouts focusing on different areas of the body help keep it varied. You don't need to own any equipment for it to work, but as we realized we were really into it, we have gradually bought the recommended equipment, and this helps to vary the workouts and keep things interesting. The music gets old after a while, but now that we know the workouts and don't need the verbal intstructions from Maya, we do picture on picture on our tv and do the workout while we watch our favorite shows. The fact that the software keeps track of how many workouts you have done and if you have skept any helps motivate us to be consistent. I highly recommend this and can't wait for a new version.

"Fun & motivating, perfect for beginners & intermediates"
As a mom of two small children, I was excited about Yourself Fitness. Gym memberships are expensive, and it's hard to squeeze a run in after a hectic day. TaeBo - which I'd used with fantastic results for over 3 years - had gotten a little boring, and I was looking for something different.

Yourself Fitness features Maya, an interactive "personal trainer." Having done a bit of personal training myself, I'll admit that Maya is fairly typical of trainer-client interaction. She's encouraging when you need it, and admonishing when you need it. Example: if you skip a few workouts, Maya will remind you that consistency is necessary to achieve your goals!

The first time you work out, Maya takes you through a brief workout designed to measure your fitness level. After keying in your height/weight/etc., she takes your resting heart rate. Then she has you do jumping jacks for 2 min and takes your heart rate again, to measure your intensity levels. She then tests you on lower body strength (bodyweight squats, up to 40), upper body strength (modified pushups) and core strength (crunches). Based on the measurements, Maya will recommend a focus - upper body, lower body, cardio, etc. Whatever focus you choose will be incorporated into each workout (for example, if your focus is cardio, every workout will have some cardio; if your focus is flexibility, every workout will have a little bit of yoga).

The workouts are fairly basic moves, nothing too complicated or fancy, but also fairly effective. If you're confused about how to perform a move, you can click a button to get a model illustration (this pauses your workout). The illustrations are useful (I've been weight training for 2 years and it was interesting to see a different perspective on things like plie squats). Some of the weight training seems to move a bit fast: Maya tells you to go "slow and controlled" on a bicep curl, but she's curling faster than frizzy hair on a humid day. The rest times between sets are good (and necessary - don't skip those rest times, your body needs them). One note on the cardio/weight loss: they're fairly interchangeable, but the cardio is superior and incorporates cardio weight training at the end (weighted lunges, etc.). Both work for weight loss but in my opinion, the cardio option gives a better workout. You can raise or lower the intensity for just about any exercise with the click of a button.

At the beginning of your workout, Maya asks how you're feeling (not too good, okay, great) and incorporates your mood into the work - if you're feeling great, she might amp it up a bit. After each section of your workout, she asks how that section felt to you (too hard, working it, no sweat) - and adjusts future workouts based on your answer. About every 10 workouts, you will do the "Fitness Challenge" - a repeat of the first workout you did to test your progress. The results are measured in the progress section, which shows your weight, strength, heart rate, etc. on line graphs. You will also be given the option to change your daily focus at the Fitness Challenge based on Maya's recommendation.

Some other things:
*meal plans & recipes (didn't use them, they looked pretty lame to me)
*meditation garden
*times offered are 15 min, 30, 45 and 1 hour
*equipment options are ball, heart rate monitor, step and weights - your equipment is incorporated into the workout. I have a weights and a ball; the weights are almost always used, the ball occasionally

The music .... well, the music. It's OK, nothing special. At different levels (depending on your workout consistency), you're awarded new music preferences. I like Techno and House, but the salsa and 80s sets are fun, too.

The settings are interesting: a dojo, an urban gym (complete with helicopters flying around outside the high-rise windows, occasionally pausing to apparently watch Maya in action), an alpine retreat - outdoors in what looks like a Colorado lodge, a desert retreat, and the beach retreat - outdoors under a huge thatched umbrella next to the beach (this is the last one you "earn" and is definitely my favorite).

If you're just starting out in fitness, Yourself is fantastic. I wish I'd one when I first started out - probably would have saved myself some injuries! Intermediates will enjoy the change of pace YF offers. If you're an advanced lifter or cardio junkie, YF will work as a good motivator. Remember to increase the weights as you get stronger; if you're always using 10lb weights, your progress will be limited. Lifting heavier *will not* bulk you up; it will make you stronger and leaner. The cardio is not high intensity, it's more like low- to medium-intensity for a longer duration. I prefer high-intensity cardio, so I generally use YF for weight training and core work, and then do HIIT (high intensity interval training) on my own.

Overall, it's a great program and a wonderful idea!

 

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- Six unique fitness environments - Keep your workouts fresh by doing them in the Empress' Dojo, the Alpine Retreat, an Island Paradise, the Urban Oasis, the Desert Springs Resort or a Meditation Garden
- Over 500 unique exercises to choose from - work through sessions with Yoga, Pilates, Cardio Fitness, Strength Training and more
- Customized meal planning with over 4,500 recipes, preparation instructions and shopping lists to make eating right more simple
- Dynamic fitness routines respond to your progress and commitment level
- Maya helps you integrate the fitness equipment you already own into your workout


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"Amazing Work Out Day After Day", This is the funnest Work Out video I've ever done. The initial set up is soooo neat! You go through your vitals and then do a regime of exercises and go through your vitals again and then she designs a workout program to fit your goals. She even suggests what she thinks you should focus on, but you can still chose whatever you want. As you go through the program, you have several different selections that become upgraded as you progress through her workout on a daily basis. She also checks you again after your 1st couple of weeks and takes you through the Vitals and Stamina Regime to see how your improving. Another neat aspect is the chart that you can go and look at to see a progress chart of your improvment.

Whenever I started this program, I was out of shape, and I still am as far as what my goal is set for. But I've already lost a little weight and some inches. I can get back into my jeans already and I'm feeling more confident about myself daily.

The other neat thing about the program is - during your workout - she stops for a break every now and then to see how you did on that part of the workout - she will give you 3 different things to chose from and based on your reply - she will make changes to the workout to best fit your needs.

I like the way she is set up and how she encourages you daily - even if you miss some workouts - she doesn't scold you too bad - but she does remind you how important it is to maintain commitment in order to reach your goal.

One last thing - My kids have even set themselves up a workout routine with her and they love it!!!! They like meeting the goals and getting rewarded with new workout areas and new music.

"Has room for improvement", I have been using yourself fitness for two months now, and am generally satisfied. It gives me a good workout at home, makes me push myself, and I'm doing some new and different exercises. If you are looking for something like an exercise video that mixes it up so you don't get bored, I would recommend it. However, it could use a lot of improvement.

The most annoying thing is when you are doing exercises in which you cannot look at the screen and also keep proper form, she doesn't count or say anything such as "right leg, down, left leg, down" to let you know how long you are supposed to hold a position, or how quickly or slowly to move, so you end up either guessing or hurting your neck trying to watch her while doing the exercise. I read somewhere that they didn't want to make her too repetitive, but when you're doing exercises, you appreciate some verbal cues.

Another thing is that sometimes the exercise sessions are a little uneven. I found that the first time I did a lower body strength session it was pretty well rounded. The second time practically every exercise was some form of squat or lunge....so I decided in the future if it's harping on one area too much, I'll just do a different exercise on my own.

There are a couple of other little things, but I don't want to rag on it all day because in the end I'm still using it. I've just been disappointed in some areas. I would recommend it as better than videos, but don't expect too much.

"Great for Workouts at home for those with limited time", I use my Yourself Fitness XBOX game atleast 3 times a week, and because fo the changing workouts, scenery, and excercise, it has kept me excercising. I'd highly recommend this for those wanting to work out but don't have time to go to the Gym.

"Finally something I can stick to", Updated 11/8/07
I still love YF! I started working out in January 2007 and had lost 20 pounds by June and people could tell I had lost weight. I did not change my diet much either, just tried to eat less as I can not give up chili dogs or pizza. Due to some unforseen circumstances I was not able to continue exercising from June through October but I was still keeping quite active and I did not put weight back on. I have started up again to lose just 10 more pounds and am looking forward to it! My friends laugh at me when I tell them about Maya and the workouts she puts me through. Definately a GREAT fitness program!!

What a great concept! I received YF for Christmas and as soon as I got home, the next morning I set up my profile and have been working out since. I have missed a couple of workouts which Maya got on my case about so I do my best not to miss, I hate feeling guilty! I am a mom of 2 very active toddlers and I was having a hard time sticking to a workout and YF gave me just what I needed. We live out in the country about 30 minutes from town so going to a gym was not only too expensive but unreasonable too. YF has given me just what I need to stick to a workout - choosing the days of the week to work out and the time period and the ability to change the time period right before each workout if you are unable to complete 30 or 45 minutes that particular day, being able to change the focus of the day as well from, for instance, cardio to core body strength or something else. Now that I have been working out with Maya for about 2 months now I can really tell a difference in my energy level and just feeling altogether better about myself and I have lost about 3 pounds so far. Yeah!! Of course they are some glitches as mentioned in the other reviews but they are not big enough glitches to keep me from working out. I think the biggest one for me is when she is doing a cardio (my least favorite)exercise and you see a rest period coming up, then it skips right over it and she keeps on doing that same exercise for another minute or so. Exhausting!! Also the rest periods between cardio exercises are very short whereas the rest periods when doing exercises with weights or crunches or the like seem too long sometimes. Overall YF is a great fitness motivator!

"Great for a variety in your home workouts", This "game" has been great to add variety to my workouts--it's very cold where I live in the winter, so I'm inside on the treadmill a lot, but that gets boring. This game is nice b/c once you get all the info stuff entered in, the "virtual trainer" knows what you need. The workouts are as easy or as hard as you want them, with plenty of opportunity for your input. I recommend it to moms, especially, probably because I am one, but also because it's convenient to do in increments--if you want to do 15 minutes at a time, the game lets you do that. I'm not the type of person to actually watch the tutorial, and some of the exercises are the kind that you need to be taught to do them right, so I improvise a little. I'm sure I look hysterical, but heck, as long as it burns calories, I'm okay with it.



 
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"Great idea that needs some improvement", You can read other reviews for the good things about this title. Here are a few problems:

1) Sometimes the program just won't do the workout you select. Three times today, I tried to make it give me a core workout and it kept doing upper body (which I just did yesterday and didn't want to repeat so soon).

2) I use other programs or running for cardio, so I'm already warmed up when I start YF. There's no way to tell the program to just get to the exercises. And there's no way to input workout data so the program knows you're doing cardio elsewhere. It will keep suggesting you need it.

3) There's no way to tell the program to not use a particular exercise. If you're bored by a move or it exacerbates an injury, too bad. Chances are, it's a move the program will use over and over for minutes at a time.

4) There's no option to build your own workout. I really wish the program was more customizable, giving me a list of exercises to string together to work the muscles I want to work on any given day.

5) It asks how groups of exercises made you feel, but there's no option to indicate a particular exercise is too much. You can make the whole workout easier, but that's not necessarily a good thing. For example, yesterday's upper body workout kept hammering me with pushups. I simply couldn't keep up. Telling the program to ease up only meant the next few exercises were shown without weights...but those exercises were for my biceps. I needed to tell the program enough already with the pushups.

I haven't decided if I'll keep using the program or not. It's definitely good to have some variety in my workout, but it's not good to feel frustrated by limitations and glitches.

"I actually LIKE using this exercise product!!", This is the first exercise program I've ever actually enjoyed using. I started out as a serious couch potato, and to be honest, I still am. BUT...I would huff and puff my way through only the WARMUP with Maya in the beginning and am now up to 45 minutes with exercises I never thought I'd be able to do and lost 20 lbs, all within 6 months! I have to admit, I say some pretty awful things to my virtual trainer at times, but Maya gives me a great workout and constantly pushes me. Maya has been designed to be in-offensive to everyone; she isn't a stick-thin avatar that I would want to push down if she were real, lol.

The only glitch I've noticed with Yourself!Fitness is that once you're over the 15 minute workout mark, it will skip the second rest period. It shows it coming up, but jumps right over it. I've gotten so I work right through that, but the program can be paused easily enough to get a needed rest.

This is a wonderful, dynamic program that can be used with or without any additional workout equipment. I started using nothing but the program itself and gradually added an exercise ball and hand weights when I realized I was sticking with it. If you've decided it's time to start getting fit, I would highly recommend this program! It's working for me and I'm just about as lazy as they come.

"This will change your Fitness Life!!!", I've never been a very fitness oriented person. I did a sport (Swimming) in highschool because my parents made me.

Now that I'm in my late 20s I realized I really need to start making Fitness more of a priority before my metabolizm catchs up with me and I'm overweight like the rest of my family.

For me working out at the Gym was just not an option. It took too much time. I tried work-out videos but man even 30min can be hard to find some days and the work outs are never at my level of ability. Oh and exercise equipement... Tried that but man that is so repetative and gets so boring even if I can watch a movie while working.

One day while my husband was looking for a new video game I came across this title. I laughed and thought it was stupid.

Then as I thought about it more and more, I thought out this might really be something that would work for me. So I finaly went out and bought it.

I've now been training every weekday with Maya since Mid Oct 2005 (it is now Late Jan 2006). I love it!!!

I can't say enough good things about this. I started at 15min a day because I thought I could at least find that much time. But as of the New Year I bumped it up to 30min because I can truely see what good it is doing in my life. I have never been so excited about working out or fitness in my life for so long.

I can totally tell this is not a fad for me. I just don't know what I will do when the X-box breaks (it is a few years old and sometimes it glitches while playing games so I know it will happen.)

I loved the program so much I even got a fitness ball and hand weights for Christmas, and wow does that open up a whole knew world of working out.

If you are like me and just can't find time for the gym or hate borring repetative workout videos then you need to get this program. The personalized workouts realy make you feel like you have control over your fitness and motivate you to continue coming back for more.

"Different kind of fun", Looks interesting so far... Kids had fun starting it up on "guest pass" and doing 15 min of cardio work -- situps, pushups, jumping jacks. We grownups have done the initial fitness evaluation -- felt harder than "she" rated it. Menu choices seem reasonable at 2000 calorie level, at least. Variety of exercises is commendable. Customizations of daily time allotment, etc., are ample. Wouldn't pay $50 for it, but Amazon's price is good. Overall, another way to "use" the video game system without being sedentary -- always a good thing! We'll see if we grownups succeed in using the program to actually get fit... As for common complaint on reviews about music, you **CAN** turn down/off the volume of it.

"Great program", If you're looking for a great, easy, customizable aerobic workout system, this is what you've been waiting for. As other reviews have indicated, this isn't a game, but a digital personal trainer.

I've put on a lot of weight after a few karate injuries, and this is a great way for me to lose it all back. Some of the features are wonderful.

1) You pick the type of workout you want (weight loss, cardio, muscle building, etc).

2) The trainer regularly asks how you're doing, so you can give feedback; if she's killing you, or if it's way to easy, you have several chances per workout to let her know. She adjusts on the fly to match your needs.

3) If you have workout equipment like small weights, a stair step, excercise ball, etc, she'll incorporate them into your workout.

4) Setting up the workout regime is a breeze. Let her know what days you can work out, how long each day, and she'll be expecting you (ready to give you a guilt trip next time you log in after you skipped a session!).

5) The user profiles are nice. You spend about thirty minutes the first time you log on setting up your profile. Weight, range of motion, goals, equipment, etc. This way, the system know what you need and who you are, and the work outs are designed with you in mind. Great feature.

There are a few downsides to the program, however.

1) This is not a video game. I knew that going into it, and so do you probably. I've heard people complain, though, because they thought this was some sort of excercise sim. What a thought. Virtual excercise. It may work for San Andreas, but I'd rather get out there and sweat...

2) Often, the trainer will fix on a single excercise for far too long. There is no way to skip past an excercise you're tired of. My injuries may start to bother me after I've done one routine too long, and I can't get her to skip to another move. Jumping jacks were really hurting my injured shoulder during one workout, and she kept them them coming for about four minutes. I was very frustrated and just started improvising until she changed her mind. I wanted a button that let the program know I was tired of jacks and ready to move on...

3) There is a "comprehensive diet" included, but in fact it's quite lame. I'm a bit of a cook, and the recipes here are so basic and boring I'd never fix them. It's things like "turkey sandwhich" or "veggie wrap" that even the most kitchen challenged individuals could already figure out. The developers should have died in with a real cookbook out there and set up a nice diet that was tasty, easy, and interesting.

4) The sound track gets really boring. I hate going to real gyms because the music is so dreadful, and this program is the same. They have categories like "latin" and "80's," but they're all just crappy disco/house tunes like you get at any cattle call fitness center out there. It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the programmers to allow us to use music we've saved on our xbox hard drive. Enjoyable music during a workout? What a concept! I know the trainer would have a hard time "finding the beat" to music we import, but I'd rather have to find my own beat than listen to more of that crap when I work out.

5) I've tried for a couple of months to delete an oboslite user profile I used as a test when I first go the game, and I can't get rid of it! This should be an easier process...

All in all, the cons are all minor, and the pros are rock solid. This is a great way to get back in shape, and it's a great idea whose time has come. I use it, I love it. I live in a desert, so it's always 110 degrees outside, and there's nothing nicer than getting my cardio in my living room, away from heat, cold, rain, and muggings. If you're hoping to get your cardio on, this is the way to do it. I hope the next generation of this type of software comes out soon. This is rich with possiblities.

 
 
 

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