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Yourself! Fitness | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  28 reviews
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Strategy Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Region: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 0
MPN: 30002
Model: 30002
UPC: 189313000027
EAN: 0189313000027
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New! Sealed!
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| Features:
| • | Six unique fitness environments - Keep your workouts fresh by doing them in the Empress? Dojo, the Alpine Retreat, an Island Paradise, the Urban Oasis, the Desert Springs Resort or a Meditation Garden | | • | Over 500 unique exercises to choose from - work through sessions with Yoga, Pilates, Cardio Fitness, Strength Training and more | | • | Customized meal planning with over 4,500 recipes, preparation instructions and shopping lists to make eating right more simple | | • | Dynamic fitness routines respond to your progress and commitment level | | • | Maya helps you integrate the fitness equipment you already own into your workout |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Yourself!Fitness is the first game to combine home health and fitness with the power of your PS2. Meet Maya, your interactive Personal trainer - she'll help you build a personalized fitness Program. She'll also keep you motivated and deliver the results you've always wanted.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
something you will stick with November 23, 2008
Valerie L. Mortensen (shaver lake, ca)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been using yourself fitness for over two years. It is not at all what you would think. Makes a program just for you, incorporates a step, weights, ball if you have them....or not.
Great, great program. It is like having a personal trainer as she assess you every so many sessions and increases or decreased the work out. Maya is the next best thing to a real personal trainer...she even wears different colored clothes each day. I don't think of it as a game...if you attend your sessions you earn new surroundings to work out in and new music--it is fantastic for any age!
Lots of fun July 30, 2008
Sarah (CT, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This really makes exercising easy- it keeps track of progress, varies the routine, and is very energetic and encouraging. My only issue is that since I am fairly athletic to start with, I found myself approaching the cap of many of the exercises- this program is more suited to beginners.
Really like it July 29, 2008
Jerry Helsing (Boston, MA)
Bought this because my wife loves Yoga and I thought that it would be nice for her to be able to track her progress. What I didn't realize is that it also shows the correct way to do the postures, incorporates other exercises and allows you to use exercise equipment you already have in the house. What a hit this was with her. Glad I found it.
Y!F Highly Underappreciated Title! June 7, 2008
Overgauss (Austin, Texas)
Some time ago when I was in xbox1 land (approximately 2 years ago) I bought this title to help get into shape. It was challenging, but that is why I liked it so. It got me into decent shape fairly quickly, so much so that my SO who fastidiously exercised on things such as stair masters, stationary bikes and some sort of a device called an 'elliptical' could not keep up during our jogs.
Interestingly enough I only jogged with her because she did not want to do Y!F with me, I capitulated after some discussion and so we started jogging...
Whereupon I blew out my knee because I could 'run through the pain' I had one day. OK so I'm a dumbass. The point being Y!F got me into awesome shape without blowing my knees out.
I am in the process of rehabilitating my knee through performing low impact isometric exercises while I brush my teeth(50 reps each leg)! I'm a busy student, ok a busy and somewhat weird student(But my time is optimised!).
My teeth are brighter and my legs/knees/lower abs are stronger. Since I now own a PS3 and my legs and knees are stronger it is time for me to revisit this classic and get back into shape. I had planned on getting into yoga recently when I remembered that Y!F had awesome yoga instructions as well as cardio and strength training in it already!
This is the first 'game' I will have ever have bought multi-platform, I highly recommend it.
Fun and challenging! Will get you in shape in no time January 15, 2008
J. Bretz (Los Angeles, Ca)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I own Yourself Fitness for almost four years already - got it when it first hit the market. And I totally love it - I even canceled my gym membership.
There are some glitches in the program of course, but I found the way to work around some of them.
1. Music is the worst - other reviewers are right about that. I usually turn its music off completely and leave only Maya's voice on (there is such an option). I use my own music instead and it really does make a difference.
2. I don't care that much about progress monitoring feature. I'm in pretty good shape and the whole purpose of working out for me is to keep it this way. So my progress report pretty much is a horizontal line. Hence a physical challenge is a boring and time-consuming hassle for me. But those challenges determine array of exercises for the next ten sessions. Basically it depends on what Maya thinks your weak side is and her recommendations for cardio, or upper body strength or etc. So with these challenges i manipulate her to do more of those exercises what I'm interested in. If i want more of core exercises i show bad performance in that group and so forth. The key is to show a moderate performance in a cardio group because focus on cardio/aerobic workout comes as a default recommendation. You need to have heart rate of 120-140 b/min after hops in physical challenge that it would consider it as a medium or moderate level for you. More or less than that and you will be stuck with a focus on aerobic exercises for the next ten sessions.
3. I saw some reviewers complained that Maya doesn't adjust the level of difficulty after she asks about it. Well she does but for the next session. She actually says it, that she "will adjust the difficulty for segments like that" and the next segment usually comes in the next session. To adjust the difficulty during current session (or for any given exercise) you need to pause the game and choose `adjust the level' from a drop-down menu.
4. The most irritating for me is when it got stuck doing the same exercise over and over again. When it happens I pause and adjust the level of difficulty, then it skips to the next exercise.
Bottom line is that this is the best (and the only) fitness program on the market and in spite of all its problems it really does make you stick to exercising routine. Hey, I stay with Maya for four years already and don't plan to leave any time soon. Well, unless the second version comes out - and there are such rumors.
PS BTW it works with Xbox 360 as well but you're going to lose all the data when you switch. So if you have an advanced status at PS2 you'll need to start all over again as a novice.
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