I bought it because of this thread. did 6 days in a row at a fairly high level, and did three 5k runs, and I'm wrecked. I'm taking today off.
Love it!
Love it!
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Phew, passed the statue section and the game is fun again. That part was definitely a drag on the pacing.
I bought it. Got it last week but only started yesterday. The game is wrecking me. I'm playing below the last difficulty and the game is really pushing me to my limits.
It's pretty good, though. I highly recommend it. Supposedly you can improve your stamina by playing the game, which I hope is the case.
It's pretty good, though. I highly recommend it. Supposedly you can improve your stamina by playing the game, which I hope is the case.
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Added planks, overhead press, mountain climber and wide squat to my fit skills today, I want to have no problems with those again. Nevertheless I'm dead, lol. Did 53 mins today.
Yup. I use it to compliment my lifting. It's great for cardio, aerobics, and even as a warm up before lifting.
I can't recommend it enough. It really is fantastic.
Amazing results OP. Congrats man, you got abs!!!
Congrats on the progress. I've been playing Thrill of the Fight, essentially shadow boxing for close to an hour post strength training. It's such a great form of cardio/HIIT, especially if you get tricky incorporate muscle bands around your torso so it feels like each punch has resistance to it.
My copy comes in tomorrow and am beyond excited. I'm 5ft8 around 135lbs but don't work out at all, a. Really hoping to tone up a bit.
Was hanging out with the fam today and got my nephew into the endless pulls (and the other quick exercises). He predictably got into it pretty quick, we were joking about how his swim team should all get it and compete over Zoom. I left my Switch and Ring Fit over there (cause I had class tonight and couldn't play anyway) so everyone else could try it out. Later they sent me a video of my nephew getting near 170s on the overhead pull...a good 40+ seconds past my best I think. My arms are not looking forward to trying to beat that.
Amazon Pre Order is up for anyone interested.
Amazon.com: Ring Fit Adventure - Nintendo Switch: Nintendo of America: Video Games
Amazon.com: Ring Fit Adventure - Nintendo Switch: Nintendo of America: Video Games
www.amazon.com
Got excited cause it's in stock still (want to get it for my sister's fam)...then saw the scalper price.
Edit: in stock and on sale at FNAC?
Edit 2: Guess that's out too
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Done 4 days in a row since getting it, love it. Difficulty level 17 and I've done between 15-30 minutes of active training per day. Can feel it in my body for sure, but still want to push on instead of skipping days.
Being an RPG and cooldowns on attacks essentially being your own body/willpower is brilliant. Excited to unlock more exercises and to see my progress.
Being an RPG and cooldowns on attacks essentially being your own body/willpower is brilliant. Excited to unlock more exercises and to see my progress.
I really really hope that this evolves and we get more fitness actives with really good software.
You would think that with the insane demand for this game more companies would be trying to put out their take on it.
It is an incredibly novel feeling to be playing a game via exercise. I have played enough of this game now to agree with the OP that Nintendo really absolutely nailed it and this is definitely one of the best games of the generation IMO. And I am sure this is just the surface of what can be done. I really hope to see more companies improve and evolve on it.
Ok, i dont know much about the fitness world, but planks and whoever invented them can go to hell.
Wife ordered on amazon the other day and should be here Monday, pretty excited to give it a go!
I'm a lifelong gamer, so my instincts will will often tell me to beat an enemy as efficiently as possible, even if I should be working out a different area of my body. Take ARMando for instance. He's clearly designed to focus you on arm workouts, but if I drink a pomegranate smoothie (changes all attacks to red) followed by a strawberry smoothie (buffs red attack), I can use exercises like leg press or the waist bend to defeat him much faster. I have to remind myself to prioritize the actual workout before the gameplay.
Also, how do people feel about the pulse measurements? Sometimes I will have a pretty good sweat going and it will tell me that I've done a "very light workout", which is obviously not accurate.
"Complaints" aside, I am really enjoying the game and the workout. I WANT to workout, which is great.
Also, how do people feel about the pulse measurements? Sometimes I will have a pretty good sweat going and it will tell me that I've done a "very light workout", which is obviously not accurate.
"Complaints" aside, I am really enjoying the game and the workout. I WANT to workout, which is great.
For anyone in an apartment with hardwood, any way to run in place without bothering my neighbors? Not that I hate the silent mode, I have no rump so probably need those squats anyway.
hahahah, i die every single time i use the plank attack
i use a yoga mat and it still makes the wood creak, so i basically HAVE to use silent mode. it more than works, though.
i've been having other issues, where the joycon in the ring doesn't recognize a rep being completed and whatnot. i've brought it up here and in the OT and it seems like no one else is having issues.
I play in portable mode but I'm a weirdo. Gotta move the switch around to other places depending on the exercises and you will miss some items along the paths cuz you notice them too late. It's not recommended but doable.
The exercises that involve my hands on the ground are too hard for me. I feel I'll injure myself. I would've needed exercises to build up to them to teach me proper form. Not being able to set intensity on individual exercises doesn't help.
I have not lost weight and did not expect to lose any. Diet changes are way more important than exercise for weight loss. I have at least 30 pounds to lose but being on lock down makes it hard for me to stay away from the fridge.
I love this game anyway and feel much better thanks to it.
I bought this but this is way too difficult if you had a knee surgery / your knee is fucked up :(
I've had two ACL surgeries in the past three years and I can do it. Helps a lot with regaining my muscle on my operated leg. But they also have settings so you can turn off jogging/knee exercises.
The problem is that I would just skip the ones I straight up couldn't do. I can barely do A push-up, let alone 20 (or however many it was asking), but since the amount it asks is tied to the difficulty and not your own performance, I had to skip the ones I couldn't despite having little trouble with others. I just wish the game recognized when you struggled with an exercise and offered to reduce their difficultly, and slowly scale it back up.
Yoga Mat solved the issue for me.
yeah, i'm not really losing weight either. it has been really great for my mental health though. and of course exercise is always is a good thing.
I think I'm gonna ask for it for my birthday. £70 is too expensive for me but as a present hell yeah.
Thanks! that motivates me, my knee pretty much degenereated all my muscle in my knee
this game really has been a godsend during the pandemic
I mostly switched to quick play and custom routines because honestly the time wasted in menus and stuff for the adventure mode kind of sucked. it's so easy to just get in, focus on a muscle group for a little bit, do a couple jogs, and be out.
I mostly switched to quick play and custom routines because honestly the time wasted in menus and stuff for the adventure mode kind of sucked. it's so easy to just get in, focus on a muscle group for a little bit, do a couple jogs, and be out.
Just completed world 2! Went from 10 minutes last session to 20 this one. It's a really cute game, I love it! Only problems I've had have been more to do with aiming in order to pick up coins/hit boxes on the side of the path. Sometimes it seems like the calibration is off. Also have only gotten the pulse monitor to work once so far, every time it always says it's failed to measure it. I don't really care about pulse rate tho so that doesn't matter to me. Overall I love this, the arm workouts have been kicking my ass lol.
I think aiming on the ground recalibrates it if your aiming is off. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I sometimes feel the character is not holding the ring in the same direction I am and instinctively move the ring down, then back up, and it seems to fix it.
That is correct. Just tilt the ring down while centered to recalibrate it
Yeah I've been trying that but it still feels a little off afterwards. I think in the main menu you can recalibrate it like you do when you first boot up the game tho? I'll check when I play tomorrow.
I'm getting this from a user here who sold it at an actually reasonable price, so curious to see. I have free weights at my home, but I don't really have any other avenue for exercise and have been curious about this for awhile. Really curious to see how I feel about it in the end.
I do, personally.
I'm about to be on day seven, I think. I do about 40 - 50 minutes per day in the adventure mode itself + a 12 minute workout that focuses just on abs.
I'm assuming that by the end of the summer, I should have gotten rid of the last of my excess fat that's still hanging onto my stomach. My arms and legs are lean already and will look even better than they do.
I genuinely love this game. I wish I had played it last year so that I could have voted for it in GotY.
And the RPG part of the game is really well made, too! They didn't skimp on the traditional RPG elements.
Before the covid, i went every days to the gym........and i was really fit. Then for 4 month, i couldn't go to the gym and i took 10kg more....Now, i m back to the gym but with all your good comment about it, i just order it for doing more sport in general to lose these 10kilo haha
I'm still playing this after 3 months so this is officially the longest I have stick to some workout routines.
Congrats to Nintendo lol
This game is really really good.
Also I have tried to play outside undocked and I was surprised how much I enjoyed it even if the screen is rather small.
Congrats to Nintendo lol
This game is really really good.
Also I have tried to play outside undocked and I was surprised how much I enjoyed it even if the screen is rather small.
Just bought this last week. Been having fun ever since. I sweat so hard after 45 minutes with max settings. Only came to world 3 as of yet, the enemies are taking a lot of hits lol.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is my GOTY probably. Nintendo really did it. If we need one more fun character at Smash, please let it be this protagonist in male/female choice again with Ringo together. So good! I can only imagine this charakter to be super fun.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is my GOTY probably. Nintendo really did it. If we need one more fun character at Smash, please let it be this protagonist in male/female choice again with Ringo together. So good! I can only imagine this charakter to be super fun.
Ohh I just unlocked
and it makes me really happy. It's a small thing but just adds a sense of fun. It's this kind of thing that kind of elevates the game above being a typical exercise software.
Also the game teases you with
power of flight
Also the game teases you with
an airship that ends up not happening lol. Would have been cool though!
I could barely do 5 squats properly and I had to cheat the rest by using incorrect form but even after a week I've seen massive progress.
If your goal is to complete levels I kind of get it? But even then, you're only cheating yourself.
My goal wasn't only to "complete" the game (hell, I still haven't.) But part of the goal is to have fun, and frustrating the user is counterproductive to the entire point of the game. I literally could not complete the challenge without actually "cheating" as the game provides no way of quitting an attack once you've started. And since I didn't want to "cheat," I had to ignore the impossible ask the game was making of me by neglecting the move entirely.
And this is a clear failing of the game, in that it could do a better job of customizing the experience on a per-player basis. It goes to great lengths to ensure you're performing the exercise correctly, but it offers zero assistance beyond that. I'd love to get better at push-ups, but not my making me do 10-20 of them at once which added a difficulty way out of alignment with everything else.
I've had personal trainers before and if they saw me struggling with something to that extent, the answer wasn't to force me through the entire exercise without modification.
That being said, I think the game's great. It just isn't perfect.
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