EA Active Review
>> Thursday, January 21, 2010
I love sharing products that I like with my friends. I haven't been doing it to much on my blog but I do it lots in real life (just ask Erin...I am incessantly telling her about something new that I've tried). I thought I might start reviewing more things here. Please let me know if you like seeing the reviews.
I first posted my review of EA Active over on the Message Boards at Everything Mom. I figured since I wrote it up, I might as well post it here too.
I bought the family EA Active for the Wii a couple of weeks ago at Costco (~$50). I LOVE it!
I used to go to the gym 4 days a week at 6am (left my house at 5:30). When I keeled over from exhaustion, I stopped and turned into a lazy bum. I knew that I needed to be doing something but I wasn't sure what. I couldn't cope with going to the gym at that awful hour.
So I've had the EA Active for 2 1/2 weeks so far. The first week I used it 3 times, last week I used it 4 and I did it tonight. It seems really easy but you can definitely feel it (I do it on the medium intensity). You get your own "personal trainer" to show you the exercises & to keep you motivated. It also comes with a calendar that keeps up with how many workouts you've done, calories burned, etc. With exercises like dancing, boxing and inline skating you don't even feel like you're working out.
There are a few things about EA Active that annoy me. These are annoying but not deal breakers & I still love the system.
1. It's hard to do some exercises while holding the Wii remote, the nunchuck & the weight band.
2. The weightband that came with the EA Active is too easy. I traded it out for another one that we had around the house & now the workout is much harder.
3. Sometimes I get frustrated b/c the system doesn't realize that I did the move that it asked me too & it will hang up. Usually I just repeat the last rep & it figures out what's going on.
All in all, these are just annoyances & the system is still great. It is WAY more fun that doing straight exercise & it totally kicks my butt. I passed 1000 calories burned on the system last night & I was super pumped!
So, have you tried it (or one of the other games like it)?
