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Nintendo has announced that Wii Fit Plus, the follow-up to the hugely successful Wii Fit, will be released across Europe on October 30, 2009.
For the first time, users will be able to customise yoga routines and strength-training exercises to create a continuous exercise plan to suit individual fitness goals. This can be taken a step further by isolating specific areas of the body for toning or conditioning purposes or simply to relieve fatigue or improve posture. The My Routine programme saves custom routines of up to 30 exercises.
Wii Fit Plus can also create randomised routines using the Yoga and Muscle exercises. Lifestyle routine uses exercise combinations to help train muscles and boost flexibility or even warm your hands and feet to ease tension. Health routines work your stomach and burn fat, and Youth routines help train the body and mind and work the lower body.
In addition to the weight and BMI tracking of Wii Fit, a brand new calorimeter makes daily progress easier to track. It estimates the amount of oxygen used by the body during physical activity and so estimates the calories burned on each activity during gameplay.
In addition to all the original Wii Fit features, Wii Fit Plus features 50 per cent more content, including 15 new balance games and six new strength training and yoga activities.
Also new is the ability for up to eight players to compete against one another in a variety of balance and training games: run an obstacle course set across a series of floating platforms, throw snowballs at your mates or watch your friends flap their arms to land a chicken character as close to a series of targets as possible.
Wii Fit Plus will be available packaged with the Wii Balance Board and as a standalone game.
