Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009 | 
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| From: Majesco Sales Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $29.98
You Save: $10.01 (25%)
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Rating:  183 reviews
Sales Rank: 23
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
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
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 178 more reviews...
 Wish I had read the reviews earlier January 6, 2009
Biggest loser wanna be (Seattle, WA)
Wow, serves me right! I should have read the reviews earlier and saved my money for something that would have actually helped (membership to WW, jump rope, etc...). I am not very experienced with using the Wii so though my difficulties in getting my self setup were do to inexperience, however my daughter was just a frustrated. You pretty much just guess your way through it. Then the actual workout, what a joke! I read and reread the directions for each excercise and still could not get many of the excercises to even show that I was doing anything. If they Wii fit game can do it why can't this one. I was so excited about this game coming out since I desperately need to do something to lose weight and I absolutely love Biggest loser. I am really upset Julian Michaels would even allow her name to be on such an awful game. Don't spend your money on this one!
buy My Fitness Coach instead January 6, 2009
Zap (Pennsylvania)
This game was on my partners Christmas List, she was looking forward to using it like the wii fit and was excited to see another fitness game come out that was compatible with the wii fit board. When she didn't get it, she treated herself to the game and immediately tried it the next morning for her fitness workout.
Within ten minutes I could hear her complaining so I came downstairs to see what was wrong. She stated that the controls were not responding to her movement and in between each training excersise you had to jog - FOREVER!
I gave it a try to see it I could figure out what she was doing wrong.
1. Since you shouldn't actually lift your feet and run in place on the wii fit board, the forever jogging in place starts to hurt your calf muscles (or maybe I am just really out of shape).
2. The tire excersise, you really need to put your weight to one side of the board and it still doesn't always respond.
3. The grenade throw, well it works fine by yourself, but we tried this out playing together and nothing responded.
Honestly, workout games are not my thing, but I actually really like the wii fit and do it regularly and I was also looking forward to this game because I thought maybe I could also get a fun workout. NOT WORTH THE $30!
The outcome - this game sucks. I wouldn't even give it one star but I had to give it something. If you want a good workout game, other than the wii fit game, my partner very highly recommends My Fitness Coach. It doesn't use the wii fit board, but gives you a good consistant workout.
 Exercise can be fun! January 6, 2009
Pamela (Brunswick, GA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent game you would never realize you were exercising until the sweat starts pouring off. I would reccomend this to everyone.
DON'T WASTE YOUR $ January 6, 2009
Cmarie (USA)
This game is horrible and I wish I had read the reviews!!!!! She should pay people to take this game off their hands! HORRIBLE
Extreme Disappointment January 6, 2009
K. White (St. Georges, Bermuda)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I cannot express how DISAPPOINTED I am with this game. I am a HUGE Jillian Fan, and was SOOO excited when I saw she was coming out with a Wii Game. I've had a Wii for about a year, and was so glad that Santa brought me the Wii Fit and Jillian game that I put on my wish list.
I've used the Wii Fit quite a few times since Christmas, and was just waiting to get 'serious' about my workouts before popping in the Jillian game, because I expected it to be a kick-@ss workout. After about 45 mins of frustration earlier today, I turned it off, and am not sure if I will ever put it back on.
The controls do not work. PERIOD. I got smacked with that stupid swinging kick bag a million times even though I was "lunging" to the right and left as instructed. Even the way they are 'supposed' to work is counter-intuitive to the way you do the exercise. For example, normally when I squat, I do not agressively swing my arms towards the front of my feet. Usually you keep your arms steady, or bring them to your sides. I really think that I will hurt myself trying to do the exercises like that! It's ridiculous!
The Wii Fit Balance Board does not complement this game at all, even though they say to use it. I find that as horrid as the game was, it worked comparatively better (ie 1 vs a 0) off of the Balance Board.
I noticed absolutely NO change in the difficulty levels. Light is Medium is Hard.
The voiceover from Jillian compliments you even when your 'avatar' isn't moving properly or doing anything, which, compared to the Wii Fit which tells it like it is, IRRITATES ME... I did not expect this to be like a "workout video" tone, 'you're doing great... keep it up... commit to this... you're almost there' on this weird repetitive loop. NOT MOTIVATING. And not like Jillian... I expected her to shout at me when I wasn't working hard, and begrudgingly acknowledge when I am!
I did work out a sweat, which I guess is something. I tried a few modes, and bounced back and forth. But then, when I checked into my stats, it said I'd worked out for ZERO MINUTES. Wha? Unless you COMPLETE a workout, it doesn't register your time at all! Even though I completed several segments of the overall workout, it shows like I did nothing.
Sigh.
I am sooo disappointed, because I wanted this REALLY REALLY bad, and had planned for it to be a major part of my weekly workouts.
I will stick with the Wii Fit and Wii Sport only for workouts.
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