Wii™ Fitness for Dummies®

Chapter 6. Training Plus and Balance Games

In this Chapter

• Getting started

• Discovering Training Plus games

• Targeting your vestibular system

• Exploring Balance Games

Keeping your muscles and cardiovascular system strong is important, but equally essential is honing your balance skills and keeping those mental muscles sharp. To facilitate this, Wii Fit Plus offers 24 game-based activities that test the reflexes, mind and body coordination, balance, and memory. Unlike other Wii Fit Plus activities, most of the Training Plus and Balance Games activities won't cause you to break a sweat, but they can be enjoyed by the whole family, including young children.

This chapter gives you an overview of all Wii Fit Plus Training Plus and Balance Games activities, reviewing game mechanics and scoring. Screenshots are provided for select activities. The role of the vestibular system in achieving balance is also discussed. Because these games are all quite gentle, requiring subtle movements, or in the case of the meditative Lotus Focus (a Balance Game), extreme focus while sitting motionless on the Balance Board, they can be used as part of the warm-up regimen before starting any of the other Wii Fit Plus activities. See Chapter 1 for more on warming up. They also can be used to test your mastery of some of the other Wii Fit Plus activities that require you to balance yourself, such as the one-legged yoga poses that are discussed in Chapter 3.

Starting Training Plus and Balance Games

To access the Training ...