There are so many reasons the average person doesn't exercise as much as they should: gym membership too expensive, driving to the gym is a hassle, too tired to get up, too hard to get motivated, much more fun to just play games. While some of these might be legitimate excuses, for the most part, that's what they are... excuses. (This author is very much including himself in this chastisement.)
Luckily, with the power of the new Kinect 2.0, the folks at Microsoft plan to combine the fun of playing video games with the convenience of working out at home. This will eliminate most of the traditional "reasoning" listed above for getting up off the couch and putting your body in motion! It's called Xbox Fitness, and it aims to take things to a whole new level beyond what was capable in previous exercise themed games for the Xbox 360.
Microsoft's first step of the program was to take an extensive library of fitness training videos and make them interactive. These include videos from the world’s biggest fitness brands including Beachbody’s P90X® (Tony Horton) and INSANITY® (Shaun T), Jillian Michaels, Tracy Anderson and others. Their next step was to bring that all together to make for an engaging experience. Here's a quote explaining the rest of the reasons why exercising more than your fingers might just become a new past-time on the Xbox One,
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Using precision Kinect technology, Xbox Fitness can read your heart rate without a monitor, see which muscles are most engaged by measuring the power, force and transfer of weight in your body, and track the quality of your performance by measuring your balance, tempo and form.
INSANITY’S Shaun T says, “What makes Xbox Fitness so innovative is the feedback it gives you. The Kinect sensor can evaluate your form, tell how high you’re jumping, how hard you’re punching and even read your heart rate. It’s that little missing piece of validation that hasn’t been possible for home fitness products before. Xbox Fitness completes the puzzle.”
Xbox Fitness will deliver personalized program recommendations based on your workout history and past performance, highlight the most popular workouts among Xbox Fitness users, and offer a variety of workouts, from 10 to 60 minutes in length.
Xbox Fitness also helps you push yourself to work harder and stay motivated. Challenges are integrated into your workouts through Xbox Live, tracking your performance history and awards and delivering competitive social challenges. Take on your previous scores, challenge your friends to beat your performance and compare with the Xbox Fitness community.
Xbox Fitness will launch this holiday, just in time to get a jump-start on your New Year’s fitness resolution. With an Xbox Fitness Pass, included free with your Xbox Live Gold membership through December 2014, you’ll have unlimited access to the world’s best workouts, only on Xbox One.
Who else is excited that the Xbox One might be the perfect exercise tool!
Source: Xbox Wire