YOGA
With Yoga you'll get your own personal trainer, and you can even choose if you'd rather have a male or female trainer. In these Yoga-Exercises you'll need to follow your trainer into a certain posture, without loosing your balance. The postures are very well explained (even subtitles available). If you sway too much or your centre of gravity gets off kilter, you loose scores. You will have difficulties in the first round to keep "standing". But after a few repetitions you'll get calmer and it gets much easier to keep your balance.
MUSCLESTRENTH
Just like with Yoga, there's a personal trainer to guide you though all the exercises. You can skip the introductions and start working out right away. This category is all about get in shape and show your shape, too. Since you are still using the balance board, you got to watch your balance as well, but mostly you are building strength. You'll be surprised how you can really do Sit-Ups and Push-Ups on the Balance board. It really is fascinating, how the board can be used for all kinds of things you'll find under the muscle menu.
AEROBIC
The Aerobic part is rather sweet and game-like, and you don't have a personal trainer like in Yoga or Strength. But you'll still get support, don't worry. You can score doing Hula- Hoop, swinging your hips to keep the loops in motion. Two Miis are watching you from the side and through more loops at you, which you have to catch by swaying to your right or left. If you don't catch a pass, the Mii will get hit on its head. You get scores for any loops that make a turn around your hips. These are added in the end.
After mastering this game, you'll get access to the Super Hula Hoop. Now you cant freely control the directions of the movements anymore, and you are being told if left or right. At the end you'll see a graphic result and find out how good you are at moving with a loop around your hip.
Enter Step Aerobic. You got to jump on and off the board in tune and key to a melody. Women will know this from many aerobics courses and videos. But at home you are all by yourself and you can fully concentrate on the Mii and how the board should be stepped on and off. The Board will let you know if you are doing all right, perfect or if you didn't get it right. As soon as you loose the rhythm it is registered by the Wii, the game brakes and gives you a change to get back with it. After mastering the first step, Stepp Plus will be accessible for you. You'll learn new step combinations and the speed is picking up, too. If you are doing well, you'll get to the Freestyle level. Now it's all about timing, how many times you can step on and off the board within a given time frame. You can set your own frame, like 30 minutes perhaps. You got to change footing every 100 steps. This is something that works out fine while watching TV at the same time. So, The wait is over: you can lose weight and work, while at the same time watch your favorite soap opera. This works pretty well, because you keep track of your scores on the small screen of the remote control.
Something truly amazing is the game of jogging. Not even have the Balance Board. Just the Wiimote in your pocket and take it, maybe after a bit 'of space in your living room. If the pants have no pockets to do, hold the remote in hand. Whileare "running" off, the TV set in front of you displays a beautiful track course, green pastures with fellow runners and dogs, just like in a real park, only it's on the screen in front of you. You are being portrayed as a semitransparent Mii and another Mii is in front of you to pace you. Awesome. Just like with the other games, you got to do something to get to the free running level. And just like with the Stepping Game, you can watch TV at the same time, because the Wiimote keeps you abreast of your scores. All three categories are a lot of fun. But, stepping on and off the board will pretty soon make you feel your legs, no matter how flat the board may seem. Running will make you sweat real soon, too. You can even jog with somebody, but the Wii will only remember and save your scores.
BALANCE GAMES
The Balance Games are a total of nine different games. All got to do with keeping your balance and work wonders, believe me.
First Game: Head Shots. In order to hit balls which are thrown at you, you got to shift your weight. You got to watch out for other things being thrown also. Don't hit these, but avoid contact. Every head contact with a ball scores. These scores are added in the end and make for a position.
Slalom Skiing works almost like it. You have to make your way through the gates, you miss a gate and time is added to the time used in total. This is how a score or position is figured out.
There is a marbles game, where you need to tilt a board with marbles to roll them into holes in the board. This is done by shifting your weight accordingly.
Other balance games are balancing on a high string, a swimming soap bubble and so on. I don't even want to mention them all, take your own sweet time and explore the variety.
You will notice that Yoga and Strength do have the most in common with the real thing. This is why a personal trainer is provided with these exercises. Aerobics and the Balance Games are more like fun and games, and you'll get Miis to accompany you. But, all of the four games types do you and your body a lot of good and challenge your strength, stamina and balance.
CONCLUSION
A must have. It's a whole new way to work out and have fun at the same time. No matter who bad the weather is outside, you can still run or jog. You don't need to go to a gym to do something for your body and health. You can stay at home and nobody watches you, either. You can take your own sweet time and stay concentrated.