Your Shape Fitness Evolved
- The game contains workouts included a martial arts class lead by celebrity trainer Michael George, and a special class by Michelle Bridges
- Player projection technology allowing the Kinect sensor peripheral to track over 1 million dots on your body
- The game comes with hundreds of exercises, players enjoy regular downloadable content releases to ensure you’ll always have new and exciting workouts
- Burn calories, have fun and improve your fitness with the help of a personal trainer
- Feedback system that delivers precise feedback on every body part as you follow your coach’s instructions and correct your form in real-time
Introducing Your Shape Fitness Evolved, a revolutionary fitness game for Kinect for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Your Shape’s proprietary Player Projection technology puts your body into the game for the ultimate experience. You’ll control the game intuitively with your voice and body as you create your desired fitness experience. Choose a personal trainer to help you meet your specific fitness goals, take a Yoga or Martial Arts class, or play fun, family-
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Miniature Harp Music Box
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Impressed,
I was ready to be very skeptical of the Kinect and motion tracking in general (concerned about lag and accuracy). After playing this for 45 minutes this morning, I was very happy with it. I have used EA Sports Active and More Workouts on the Wii for the past year and have gotten in much better shape with it, but having to hold the controllers and the leg strap gets in the way for me. I was hoping that with this I would be able to consign the controllers to the dust bin of history and so far so good!
I did the initial training, some of the toning exercises, and the first Zen class and can report that everything worked beautifully. And it kicked my butt today, so the intensity is definitely there. I like the feedback given by the motion detection – much more immediate and accurate than the Wii controllers seemed to be. As you move you see your image on screen moving and if there is any lag I don’t see it. Doing the lunges for instance, it told me I was getting out of rhythm and was not doing the lunges completely. Using the onscreen trainer and my feedback I was able to correct quickly and see that if I dropped my knees a little bit more the onscreen trainer was happy with what I was doing.
I haven’t gone very deep into the program, as I said before, but the range of exercises and number of different programs seems to put it will ahead of the Wii games I have played, and I have to admit I was getting VERY bored with the other programs, so also very glad to have something different to use.
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|It got me exercising, which says a lot…,
I bought this game for myself after I bought an Xbox 360 Kinect for my son. I am a 47 year old male, and I lead an entirely sedentary lifestyle — I sit in front of a computer all day at work, then come home and sit in front of a computer all evening doing Web programming and digital photography. I have always suffered from a sore back and often-sore muscles from my poor fitness. I am not exactly the type to go to a gym and be intimidated by all the muscle guys and muscle women, so I decided to get this game to try to get myself moving.
I can say that Your Shape has been successful at getting me moving again. It’s a lot of fun, and there’s a large variety of exercises to choose from. I started with the exercies disguised as gym games, which for us sedentary types is a good and fun way to start moving again. I then ventured to the Personal Training mode, and started following a routine for cardio and toning.
There are several things I like about Your Shape (besides being able to exercise in my own home). First, the games and exercises vary from very easy and good for beginners, to very advanced for people in good shape (most of which I haven’t tried yet). Second, there is a wide variety of games and exercies to choose from at each level. Third, I like how it tracks your progress over time (by way of total calories burned, and by way of which levels you have passed and which levels you have unlocked by mastering easier levels). Fourth, it does a pretty good job of making sure you are doing the exercises correctly (or at least not horribly incorrectly) by virtue of the Kinect. And lastly, the graphics are pretty nice and clean.
I gave it 4 stars overall instead of 5 for fairly minor issues. One, it’s not as easy as I would like to get back to exactly where I stopped the last time I played. For example, I would like the ability for it to return directly to the exact point in my Personal Training session where I last left off. Also, I have noticed that a small fraction of the exercises fail to recognize when I am in synch with the trainer, even though I am as in synch as humanly possible. This makes me do more repetitions, because it won’t count my out-of-synch reps as valid. Maybe that’s a sneaky way to make me exercise more?
Overall, I’m very happy with Your Shape, and can recommend it, at least for people like me with previously low levels of activity. It may be great for much more advanced fitness buffs too, but that I cannot attest to. I can tell you that after my daily 40 minute evening sessions, I definitely feel like I got some serious exercise, and my tired muscles the next morning are a constant (but good) reminder that my body is indeed getting a workout. By the way, a good addition to this game is a pair of 5-lb weights (or some spare water bottles), which give you a little more of a workout if you use them while playing some of the fitness routines and games. This tip came from the game itself, and I concur.
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|Very Impressed!,
Awesome game! I burned 500 calories the first night of playing on it!
I can’t see myself breaking a sweat restricted to a Wii fitness board or while holding any foreign objects in my hand. This game seems to be a lot different from the competitors. Nothing in your hands to drop and real workouts from Women’s Health and Men’s Health magazines.
This game, using the Kinect sensor watches you like a hawk. Which makes it sound like it is going to scream at you for every little mistake, but it is for your own good to improve your workout. Their is no frustration when using the Kinect sensor. The Kinect sensor is accurate about 99% of the time and tracks much better than my experiences with the Wii. (losses 1% because you have to be near the center of the play space before exercises or you’ll end up moving arms and legs out)
It is constantly watching your form during exercises and verbally telling you how to correct your form to get the most out of it. It even tells you what exercises you need to work on to correct your form and what exercises you have the best form in. It tracks calories burned over time and builds workout routines custom to your individual fitness goals.
It is the first exercise game I know of that a die hard fitness magazine will get behind and improve with their own input. Do you think any other consoles are going to have fitness industry backed games? Enough said…
(I don’t consider “The Biggest Loser” in the fitness industry due to the fact that they are a TV show. Do you think they really want you off the couch and not watching their show?)
I’m in no way connected to Ubisoft or Microsoft. I’m actually a die hard FPS fan (MW2, BF:BC2, and soon Black Ops) who just wanted a little extra energy from an in home workout routine. Yes I could do this without the game, but the game makes sure I do the exercises right and doesn’t let me cheat on them. I’m shooting for the 10,000 calorie burned achievement in the first month.
Wish me luck!
My rating: 4.5/5
(It would have been 4/5, but they have the ability to add more workouts over Xbox live)
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|Harp Art: A Beautiful Decoration,
Looking like a tiny pedal harp, this product is a great little piece of harp art, a replica. It is NOT a real harp instrument; the strings make no “musical” noise. However, they have the look that they might could produce music. You can even see the harp’s “sound” holes, which adds a touch of realism to this table ornament. This is basically a collectible piece, and with some fragile elements, it would NOT be appropriate for small children.
The music box mechanism seems to be in the base, and to play the song, “The Music of the Night” from The Phantom of the Opera, one has to gently wind the little silver key / crank on the bottom. The music is pleasant and adds interest to this unusual, decorative piece. One may not, upon first glance, realize that it is a music box. From studying the product, it does appear to be handcrafted because it has features and elements that feel hand-wrought and unique. Some people who like perfect details in their products may be put off by aspects like a tiny paint spot or to on the base or feet. However, I like these elements because it reminds me that humans were involved in the conception and creation of this item.
My Miniature Harp Music Box arrived in its very own case, which was a clever little touch. Makes a fun “:thinking of you” gift for the harper or harpist in you life.
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|Pretty and unique.,
It was a bit lighter and flimsier-seeming than I expected, and I wish it played more of the song and more slowly (though I’ve never found a ‘Music of the Night’ music box that was much different so it’s probably not the manufacturer’s fault).
Still, it’s a beautiful piece and looks stunning next to other instrument shaped music boxes. I like it a lot.
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