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Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009 | 
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| From: Majesco Sales Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $29.99
You Save: $10.00 (25%)
New (12) Used (2) from $29.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  181 reviews
Sales Rank: 22
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 01552
Model: 1552
UPC: 096427015529
EAN: 0096427015529
ASIN: B001DDBBSS
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks
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| Features:
| • | Uses the Wii balance board | | • | 4 Workout types, strength training, weight loss, intervals and h climb | | • | motion based fitness activities such as ladder climb, rowing and monkey bars | | • | track personal data and progress | | • | Unlock lifestyle tips from Jillian |
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Product Description
Become new recruits in Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009. Enroll in a unique training program composed of challenging fitness tests and an ever-changing series of workouts. Choose your workout from four types--Weight Loss, Strength Training, Intervals and Hill Climb--and set the intensity to light, medium or hard for a duration between 10 and 60 minutes. By completing exciting Wii Remote and Wii Balance Board motion-based challenges that range from crossing monkey bars to climbing ladders and rowing, you can also unlock lifestyle and fitness video tips from Jillian. You can even track your progress based on calories burned and workout intensity. In addition, a Competitive Party Mode lets two players race against each other through entertaining individual challenges or through the entire Physical Training course to earn the winning time.
Competitive Party Mode lets two players race against each other through entertaining individual challenges or through the entire Physical Training course to earn the winning time
Amazon.com Product Description
 Jillian Michael’s Fitness Ultimatum 2009 is the first game of its type to combine a celebrity fitness trainer with the Wii and innovative Wii Balance Board accessory to offer you a fun and entertaining way to get fit. Under Jillian’s expert guidance, you can pursue a focused workout that helps you reach your fitness goals through rigorous, branching exercise routines, and multiple difficulty levels that will get you in the best shape of your life! As a new recruit at Jillian’s boot camp, enroll in her unique training program and be challenged to an ever-changing series of workouts and fitness tests.
Choose your workout from four types:
Gear your workout to suit your goals when you choose either Weight Loss, Strength Training, Intervals, and Hill Climb modes. Set the intensity of your exercise routine to suit your pace: Light,Medium or Hard, then dictate workout length: 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes. Start each workout on the track by running down the Physical Training (PT) course of the training base in a series of judged challenges for up to 3 minutes. Motion-based fitness activities include: running obstacle courses, balance beam, hand car, rowing/paddling, crossing monkey bars, punching bags, and more.
Go Solo or Head-to-Head:
Choose your challenge from branching paths to dictate your own activity. Each challenge has three levels of difficulty, requiring progressively more motion and a harder workout (warm-up, target zone, cool-down, etc.) Competitive Campfire Mode lets two players race against each other through individual challenges or the entire PT course to see who can burn more calories.
Customization:
Customize your character and input personal data to serve as a benchmark for measuring progress via the Statistics screen that includes: calories burned, weight, in game performance and more. Unlock lifestyle and fitness video tips from Jillian that provide guidance on: targeted training,maximizing your workout, gym alternatives, traveling workouts, snacking, eating out, food substitutions, and cooking
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| Customer Reviews: Read 176 more reviews...
 This GAME is kicking my BUTT October 31, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have had this product for about 4 days. I have used it consistently the past two days. I chose high level for the first day, and medium the second day. I HURT ALL OVER!!! I have muscles I never new existed...I used to be a competitive swimmer. It is frustrating when the game does not register things I am doing, however, I sweated a lot and I am achy all over. I do not really care about the graphics at all, and they are not as horrible as what I have read. I enjoy the music and the workout is intense.
great workout October 24, 2008
26 out of 38 found this review helpful
I have had the wii fit since it came out. LOVED IT! However, I am starting to get bored. One can only hoola hoop so many times. I was on the fence about wether to get this game or the outdoor challange. Since this one used the balance board, I chose it. I dont really care about graphics, they are not going to help me lose weight. I did however start sweating after 5 minutes and was ready for more. I think this is a much harder workout and a nice step up from the wii fit. I would agree that the response time is alittle slow, however i think that just makes you work harder. isnt that the point anyway!
Much better than others are saying November 7, 2008
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
No, this isn't perfect, and yes there are things they could have done better.
BUT, I doubt many people are buying this for "fun" or just for great graphics. It is for working hard. While some of the activities take some time and practice to figure out just how to make them register with the Wii, you will get a great work out. Most of the "problems" that I read from other posters are more of a matter of taking the time to read ALL of the on-screen instructions, and watching your timing. If you do the action before you are supposed to, it won't show that you did it. Also, Jilliam gives both positive feedback (when you are doing and maintaing the activites well) and negative (when you aren't).
I have been using this work-out for about a 1.5 weeks, and it kicks my but every time. Heart rate up, sweat pouring off, feeling my muscles working, and the next day, still feel the workout.
I would only reccommend you buy this IF you want to work!
Exercise can be fun! January 6, 2009
Excellent game you would never realize you were exercising until the sweat starts pouring off. I would reccomend this to everyone.
Love it!!! October 23, 2008
15 out of 32 found this review helpful
I love this workout. It is much harder than the WII Fit game. I did a 30 minute workout yesterday and buy the time I was done. I was shaking all over. It was a little tricky getting the moves done at first but once I did it was great. Jillian really kicked my but, she gives advise as you workout and the music is great as well and helps alot while exercising.
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The Nintendo Wii goes on sale on Sunday, November 19. Thanks to the inclusion of the simple--but infectiously fun--Wii Sports game, the Wii is the first console in recent memory that lets you have fun straight out of the box. Still, there are a few key Wii accessories you'll want to pick up to maximize your Wii experience--especially if you're buying it as a gift.
Extra controllers: Like all recent consoles, the Wii ships with just a single controller (well, one two-part controller: one Wiimote, plus one nunchuk). But the real fun of the system is playing the head-to-head Wii Sports games such as tennis and boxing. To do so, you'll need at least one extra set of controllers--and again, that's one Wiimote ($28.99) plus one nunchuk ($12.99). The Wii supports as many as four, but just the one extra controller set should suffice--at least for Christmas morning.
Rechargeable batteries: The Wiimote takes two standard AA batteries. They're included--with the Wii, and with the sold-separately version of the controller mentioned above--but avid players may find the juice draining pretty quickly, especially if they keep the nunchuk attached (it draws its power from the Wiimote). Instead of buying an endless stream of costly AAs, consider investing in a set of rechargeables. You can score a charger and four rechargeable nickel-metal-hydride batteries for less than $25.
GameCube controllers: The Wii is fully backwards compatible with the Nintendo GameCube, but there's a catch: to play the GameCube games, you'll need a GameCube controller ($15.99). You can even go wireless with the Nintendo WaveBird ($59.99). If you already have a GameCube, your existing controllers will work just fine--just plug them in to one of the four ports underneath the flip-up panel on the Wii's topside. GameCube controllers should also work with the Wii's "Virtual Console" games--which saves you the trouble of having to buy a Classic Controller.
GameCube memory cards: One other annoyance when playing GameCube games: your progress can only be saved to GameCube memory cards, not to the Wii's internal memory or to an SD card (we're hoping Nintendo fixes this with a future firmware update). Like the controllers, your old GC cards will work just fine--there are two slots right next to the GameCube controller ports. If you don't have any onhand (and you want to save your games on GC titles), you'll need to spring for a $26.90 (2GB) memory card.
Wii Points: One of the big attactions of the Wii is its Virtual Console, which lets you purchase classic games that originally came from the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the Super NES, the Nintendo 64, the Sega Genesis, and the TurboGrafx16. By the end of 2006, at least 30 titles should be available, including Donkey Kong (NES), Super Mario 64 (N64), and Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis). To purchase the downloadable titles, you'll need to use a Nintendo currency known as Wii Points (similar to the Microsoft Points on Xbox Live), which currently have an exchange rate of 100 points per U.S. dollar. You can buy Wii Points directly through the console's online store, or use prepaid cards (2000 Wii Points) available in various denominations.
SD card: If you're close to filling the Wii's built-in 512MB of storage with your Virtual Console games, you can always expand your available space with an SD card. Nintendo sells its own, but any run-of-the-mill card will do. Fairly spacious 1GB cards are available for less than $20--even less with mail-in rebates--and they'll work in plenty of other gadgets as well.
Wireless access point: In addition to the downloadable Virtual Console games, the Wii offers online "channels," including news, weather, and even an Opera Web browser (head-to-head online gaming is said to be coming sometime in 2007). You can get online for free via the Wii's built-in Wi-Fi. To do so, of course, you'll need a nearby wireless access point or router. Alternately, you can plug the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector into any nearby PC on a wired network, and the Wii--plus your Nintendo DS--will be able to use it to get online instead.
Component video adapter: The Wii doesn't have the graphical horsepower to handle high-def graphics, but it can do DVD-level 480p video, which will look considerably better on large HDTVs. To see the Wii's games in 480p, you'll need Nintendo's proprietary component video adapter, which should run about $20. |
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