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Getting acquainted with Wii Fit Plus
Preparing your Mii
Using the Balance Board and other controls
Navigating the Wii Fit Plus software
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fter you make the decision to incorporate Wii Fit Plus into your healthy
lifestyle, the first step is to set up the system. Unlike most games,
setting up Wii Fit Plus is a multistep process befitting its unique combination
of sophisticated hardware and software. This chapter helps to make this
process a breeze so that you can get down to the serious — yet surprisingly
fun — business of working out.
In this chapter, you find out how to set up Wii Fit Plus to work with your Wii
console. You also discover how to activate your Balance Board, prepare your
Mii for the activities ahead, and establish your baseline physical fitness level.
We go over what the Balance Board can and can't do, how the Wii Remote
and Nunchuk are used, and how to navigate around the many Wii Fit Plus
menus.
Introducing Wii Fit Plus
One of the major reasons the Wii Fit phenomena has been so strong is
because it relies on a unique bundled peripheral called the Balance Board.
This innovative wireless controller has become the face of the Wii fitness
revolution, adding a new dimension of interactivity far beyond what is
possible with just the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.
Although the original Wii Fit features over 40 strength training, aerobics,
yoga, and balance activities, the exercise experience is unstructured and
mostly solitary. Although not a radical change, Wii Fit Plus adds over 20
more activities, provides preset routines and customizable workouts, has a
Chapter 1
Getting Started
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Summary of Contents for Nintendo Wii Fit Plus
- Page 1 — yet surprisingly fun — business of working out. In this chapter, you find out how to set up Wii Fit Plus to work with your Wii console. You also discover how to activate your Balance Board, prepare your Mii for the activities ahead, and establish your baseline physical fitness level.
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Page 2: What's In The Box
Wii fitness enthusiasts alike. What’s in the Box Wii Fit Plus comes in two flavors: a box set with the Wii Fit Plus software and the Balance Board, or, for those who already own the original Wii Fit, just the Wii Fit Plus software. -
Page 3: Hooking Up The Components
Wii Remote Strap Usage screen instructions or simply wait to automatically proceed. If this is your first time playing Wii Fit Plus, you will have to create and save data and synchronize the Balance Board. 2. On the Wii Fit Plus save-data creation screen, press A on the Wii... - Page 4 Part I: Wii Fit Plus If you are upgrading from Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus makes use of your previous data. After the save data has been created, a confirmation screen appears. Press A again. If you already have Wii Fit data, you are taken on a brief tour of Wii Fit Plus’s new features, and you can either skip ahead...
- Page 5 If all steps were followed correctly, the virtual Wii Balance Board greets you and serves as your animated anthropomorphic tour guide when you’re playing Wii Fit Plus. After a brief intro, you are asked to verify your console’s date and time. If the settings are correct, use your remote to select Correct;...
- Page 6 Be sure to enter your real birth date for accurate analysis. If for some reason you’re concerned that others who will be playing your Wii Fit Plus will be able to see this or your other personal information — such as your weight —...
- Page 7 Chapter 1: Getting Started 2. Step on and remain still. If you move, or fidget, Wii Fit Plus will have trouble taking a baseline reading and you’ll be instructed to step off and restart the process. After Wii Fit Plus gets a successful reading, it will ask how heavy your clothes are: Light (-2 lbs.), Heavy (-4 lbs.), or Other.
- Page 8 Body control baseline Because this is your first time using Wii Fit Plus, your body control assessment starts with the Basic Balance Test. For a more comprehensive overview of this test, turn to Chapter 2.
- Page 9 Selecting No brings you to the Calendar screen, while selecting Yes brings you to the Wii Fit Plaza. See “Navigating the Wii Fit Plus Menus” later in this chapter for an explanation of your options at each of these screens. But first, let’s find out more about the Balance Board.
- Page 10 Part I: Wii Fit Plus With support for a standing weight of up to 330 pounds and an impact force of over 600 pounds, the board accommodates a fairly broad range of individual body types, abilities, and general usage. For the Balance Board to do its job accurately, you need to ensure that the sensors have sufficient clearance underneath, particularly if your Balance Board is being used on a rug.
- Page 11 Incorporating the Wii Remote and Nunchuk Although most of Wii Fit Plus’s more interesting functionality revolves around use of the Balance Board, you still use your Wii Remote to navigate the menus and begin exercises. As always, before using the Wii Remote, it is important to use the wrist strap and Wii Remote Jacket for maximum safety, particularly because you are likely to be breaking a sweat.
- Page 12 Wii Fit Plaza The Wii Fit Plaza is the starting point for your Wii Fit Plus training. After all the Miis you registered in Wii Fit Plus have finished running in, you see the Wii Fit Plaza, as shown in Figure 1-4.
- Page 13 If not, visit www.support.nintendo.com or call Nintendo’s hotline at 1-800-255-3700 for assistance. • Credits: Select the Wii Fit or Wii Fit Plus icon in the lower-right corner of the screen to see who helped make these titles possible.
- Page 14 Credits button to change to the daily bar graph view of how much time you’ve been spending with Wii Fit Plus each day. You can isolate the data on a single Mii by hovering your Wii Remote over that player. You can also click anywhere on the graph and drag the Wii Remote pointer right or left to see earlier or later dates, respectively.
- Page 15 • Save Time: If you find that you consistently work out late at night and prefer your data recorded on a particular day, you can use this option to tell Wii Fit Plus to begin a new day at 3:00 a.m. instead of 12:00 a.m.
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Page 16: Training Menu
Body Test only once each day and at roughly the same time each day for the most consistent results. Training: Opening this menu allows you to access the exercises you bought Wii Fit Plus for in the first place. We cover this in the next section. Training menu If you’re going to become fitter, you have to train for it, and that’s where... - Page 17 Chapter 1: Getting Started Figure 1-6: The initial Training menu screen. Click the + and – buttons at the top of the screen or press the same buttons on the Wii Remote in a Training submenu to go directly to the other training submenus.
- Page 18 This is your Fit Bank or Fit Piggy, as it is often referred to in the game. When you engage in Wii Fit Plus activities, you are rewarded with Fit Credits, which get deposited into this Fit Bank. The number of Fit Credits earned varies based on how much time you spend performing an activity.
- Page 19 Wii Fit Plus Channel. Do this at the Wii Fit Plaza, where you click on the Settings wrench icon at the upper right of the screen to bring up a submenu, then click on the Install Channel option.
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Page 20: Warming Up And Cooling Down
Part I: Wii Fit Plus Warming Up and Cooling Down Before you start doing any of the activities in Wii Fit Plus, the program reminds you to warm up; however, no warm-up activities are provided outside of Warm Up, found under the Lifestyle category of Wii Fit Plus Routines, which is described in Chapter 4.