Golds Gym Cardio Workout (Wii)

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Platform	Nintendo Wii
Release Date	27/08/2009
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Golds Gym Cardio Workout (Wii) Product Information

Gold's Gym Cardio Workout brings your own personal Gold’s Gym cardio trainer into your living room! Gold’s Gym is the largest gym in the world and is known for leading the industry in personal training, so expect to get in shape fast. It’s a fun way to exercise and maintain a healthy body.

Features:
•A personal training experience – schedule workouts, track burned calories and body weight evolution
• Offers a more intense cardio workout than most Wii fitness games. Includes exercises such as: cardio boxing, running, sit ups, and other activities.
• Tracks your progress and maintains a calendar of your exercise activity.
• Multiple Training modes and fitness levels - Difficulty evolves as your fitness level increases
• Wii Fit Board compatible exercises, such as Squats, Back Training, Abdominal Training, Push Ups, Log Cutting, and Punch Dodge
• The game includes a BONUS 7-Day VIP Gold’s Gym Membership.

Golds Gym Cardio Workout (Wii) Review

Thanks to the extraordinary success of Wii Fit, a new market for fitness and exercise games has flourished on the Wii. Last year Ubisoft released My Fitness Coach and Majesco released Jillian Michael’s Fitness Ultimatum. EA is also releasing EA Sports Active. Now we have Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout, and thankfully it holds up pretty well against the competition.

Like Wii Fit, when you first start Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout you are asked to make a profile in which you input your weight, height, and on-screen avatar. Up to eight players can create profiles on one game save. Once this process is done you select your trainer and preferred control method, and start your first boxing lesson. After a control tutorial you are taken to the main menu, where you decide where you want to go next.

The first option you’ll see is Shape Boxing. This is where you’ll go through rhythm boxing lessons of various skill levels. Everything from the rules and basics of Gold’s Gym to advanced boxing lessons can be found here. Each section has up to six lessons; each lesson tells you the duration of the exercise, the difficulty rating, and approximately how many calories you will burn before you start. When you complete the tests the game rates your performance by giving you your body’s age. All of the lessons are unlocked from the start, and you can choose which one you want to participate in. There is one last difficulty setting that can be unlocked.

Next is Boxing Examination. Once you feel that you have mastered the boxing lessons you can go to this mode and participate in each test. Each test is unlocked as you successfully complete the previous one.

Finally there is the “My Data” option. As the name states, this is where you keep track of your records, change your character data, and even buy clothes for your character. Borrowing a page from Wii Fit’s playbook, each day is tracked by the number of punches you threw during each session, and the accomplishments you have achieved each day.

Gold’s Gym allows you to either use the Wii Remote and Nunchuck or two Wii Remotes. While both control setups work great, the game works best with two Wii Remotes. The game does a great job of detecting the timing and rhythm of your punches. The game also lets you choose a song before each lesson. Many tracks are offered, including Eye of the Tiger from the movie Rocky. You can also alter the volume of the track if you want more music or to hear the voice of the trainer more clearly.

One advantage Gold’s Gym has over Wii Fit is that all of the exercises and lessons are easy to learn, allowing any player of any skill to participate. Not everyone can complete the yoga and strength training lessons in Wii Fit, and it can be very demanding regarding how you perform an exercise. If you can punch, dodge, and weave, then you can play any of the lessons that Gold’s Gym offers.

Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout might seem like a wannabe riding off the success of Wii Fit, or worse, be considered by some as a shameless shovelware title. But if you give the game a chance you will discover that, even when it borrows ideas from Wii Fit, it does enough on its own to make it a compelling package that complements Wii Fit very well. If you’ve played Wii Fit a lot and want to discover something different, Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout is definitely worth a look.

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