UFC Personal Trainer
3UFC Personal Trainer
- Learn over 70 MMA-inspired exercises, including moves from disciplines such as wrestling, kickboxing and Muay Thai
- Utilizes your existing Kinect sensor for Xbox 360 to translate motion to the screen without the need for a controller
- Focus on specific fitness objectives, guided by a UFC personal trainer, in building personalized routines with up to 12 different exercises
- Hit the mitts against several popular UFC fighters with a variety of challenging rhythm and timing-based agility drills that utilize punching and kicking sequences
- An in-game journal enables players to view a comprehensive calendar of their fitness activities, including specific routines, time management and more
Set personal goals and achieve real results with an unparalleled mixed martial arts (MMA) fitness program designed by leading MMA training experts and certified by UFC and the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). UFC Personal Trainer provides players with an extensive assortment of effective and challenging MMA-inspired exercises, in both pre-set and customizable routines, to build strength, increase endurance, burn calories and get results. Personalized instruction and tips from the MMA
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 12.31
Heisenberg
Great fitness program,
Just FYI Best Buy is currently giving away UFC Undisputed 2010 free when you buy UFC Personal Trainer. I took advantage of that deal.
I wouldn’t call UFC Personal Trainer a game. It’s a fitness system. This is not a gimmick to get MMA fans to open their wallets. The program was developed and certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine based on MMA training techniques. I started the 30 day strength training program and had an excellent workout. I’m a sergeant in the USMC and I’ve had numerous physical training sessions. The exercises I performed in UFC Trainer were very familiar as they are the same basic exercises Marines use to stay in shape. Pushups, squats, and lunges are proven and tested exercises. If you are already fit I would suggest picking up some light weight dumbbells for the standing upper body workouts such as upright rows and the Arnold press.
The program features various modes to help you get in shape. “Workout mode” has several pre-made routines for you to choose from. Each routine has a short description including what areas it will improve and estimated number of calories burned. You can also make your own workout routine. There is also a “quick workout” mode which I have not tried but the instruction manual implies you pick a target goal and quick workout automatically starts up a workout to improve that area. “Programs” are really where I think this game shines. Here you pick a workout program with a specific goal such as strength, cutting weight, and cardio. The program is for a specific duration as well such as 30 or 60 days.
The “Activities” are simply fun UFC inspired mini-games for you to play. The speed bag is about timing and rhythm, the tire flip is basically a squat where you explode upwards from the squat position, you can hit the mitts and freestyle on the heavy bag as well.
There are systems in place to help track your progress as well. You input your age, height, and weight and your BMR can be calculated. There are graphs to track your progress by calories burned, weight lost, muscle’s exercised, etc. You can even take pictures of yourself to keep track of your body’s fitness transformation. Consistently doing the workout programs unlocks rewards and achievements such as doing 100 upper body workouts.
If you are under the impression that this game will make you into a fighter, you will be disappointed. If you want to be a fighter you need to find a martial arts gym with a focus on both ground work and stand-up. What this game will do for you, is provide you with a fun and motivating way to transform your body. If you do these exercises and have a consistent routine I’m fully confident you will get in better shape.
Note: I didn’t have any problem with the game freezing but some of the other reviews have indicated that the problem was already fixed.
For some of those still having issues:
I’ve noticed a few things in the past week since I bought the game. First it is extremely important that your entire body appears green within the octagon in the corner. If you get in plan position to do push-ups and your face is yellow or red, you are too close to the sensor. Floor exercises seem to be giving people the most trouble. I suggest you make sure your kinect is calibrated properly and give yourself enough room.
Secondly, timing is important when doing the exercises. You have to wait for the green arrow to at least begin to appear before changing position. There is also an audible bleep sound that helps you with the timing. For example When doing push-ups go down, hear the bleep, and then go up. You will then hear another bleep you can go back down. If you do them too fast or out of rhythm the exercise will not register. It actually helps you develop proper form and rhythm. Exercises like push-ups should be done in a steady controlled manner to get the most out of them.
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|GODJOEY
AWESOME addition to regimen,
Customer Video Review Length:: 3:35 Mins
Updated 7/5/11 I have been training 20 years and I have to say this 30 day endurance on advanced is definitely a great test. To get a little extra burn a few 5 minute sessions of heavybag and mitt work. I got about 10 pauses today in my workout hopefully they fix this it auto pauses even if you are entirely green and standing still. If anyone was worried about back problems and doing ground routines this is very forgiving with technique found this out when I was getting tired. I wish they made the pushups register like you do jumprope it would be much better for fast pushups. Nothing worse than non registering reps while you are really tired.
Updated 7/1/11 Calorie burning estimator needs some tuning. 600+ strikes 60,000+ points on heavybag in 5 minutes gave 13-53 calories burned. But 3 minutes of very light much slower paced mitt work of maybe 40 strikes gave 99-300+ calories burned.
Updated 6/30/11 Uploaded short video. 5 stars for both fun and overall.
Updated!6/29/11 Just tried an hour of heavybag, speedbag, tire flips and mitt work. I think it’s all FIXED!!! Now this is how it was intended to be! I’m ONLINE and no freezes the last hour. Do pushups according to the pace of the machine I know some of you out there are pushup and situp machines you are limited by the kinect device itself from keeping up with you. That being said I think this is now better than fitness evolved and the best entertaining workout kinect title to date. It’s a MUST for any UFC fan. Hope this review helps I’m totally enjoying this Title now!
Not a fan of a ring girl giving demands on the heavybag, speedbag or tire flips if I wanna hear a woman complaining I’ll go deal with the old lady ;).
Don’t know if Amazon is slowing down but this deserves a 4 to 5 star now that this bug is fixed also it’s showing I only put 1 star for fun this is 5 stars on both. Amazon needs to fix that.
I’ll continue to update this according to fixes.
Updated! 6/28/11
Game locks up to frequently to get a good steady cardio going. It does not track many exercises accurately pushups or situps etc.. I found it tracked jumping jacks the best also noticed while hitting the heavybag if you perform a Thai clinch it tracks your hands as well while you throw knees so it looks like a triple hit… I feel the activation of particular strikes need serious tuning.
I performed 29-30 pushups it counted 13 not before locking up the whole xbox. These lockups last 10 or more seconds at times. It doesn’t just lock the game up it also may do a never ending loop of whatever sound was on. Do it at the machines pace otherwise it won’t count even if you can bang out 100 pushups in 1 minute it’s too fast for the kinect not UFC trainers fault.
Pros
UFC franchise
Create your own workout routine also “weighted routines”
assorted equipment “Mitt work, Tire flips, heavybag, and speed bag
Unlockable equipment
Overall progress tracking
Best workout title on Kinect a must for UFC fans
Great addition to regimen.
Cons
Wish Pushups registry were like Jump ropes for fast pushups
Intermittent pauses becoming more regular got 5 pauses while my body was green during mitt work. Kills the pace.
None , girl giving me demands “You’re going too fast” You’re going too slow” 😉 on the speedbag lol. Not so much a con.
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|J. Estrada
An Exercise in Frustration,
I’m a big fan of the UFC and a big fan of working out, so this title seemed like a natural fit for me. I’ve successfully completed P90X and GSP’s excellent RushFit, so I have reference as to what a good workout routine is and I entered UFC Trainer with certain expectations, neither of which is fully met with this title, which certainly feels like a rough draft of a game that could’ve used 3 months of additional development time. At first, the sheer variety of workout options seems rather nice and varied. The variety is quickly wasted upon hearing your trainer repeat phrase after phrase, such as, “let’s get the body ready for a great workout,” followed 3 seconds later by “let’s get the body ready for a great workout.” Much more variety in the dialogue is a no brainer. How the developers let this slide is surprisingly Bush League game development since it really bites into the experience.
More variety in warm-up exercises would have been welcome, such as having the CPU randomly select 5 warm up moves from a pool of warm-up exercises instead of having to do the same ones before every routine. The option to skip warm-up or cooldown would have been nice.
During a routine you are prompted to input how heavy a weight you would like to use for the upcoming exercise… but are never told what that exercise is. So how do I know how much weight to grab (since the weight has to be input, to help figure calorie burn) – I’ll use different weight for triceps than lunges, for example. Again, the user experience seems to be an afterthought
The biggest sin this title commits is in its shoddy body movement recognition during ‘gameplay.’ I can’t remember how many clean, strict, push ups I would hammer out only to see the game wasn’t registering but a fraction of them. Jumping jacks also gave the game a hard time to see and register, so the frustration quickly builds as you are losing your point bonuses and sometimes even fail an exercise outright since the goal numbers aren’t being met. This problem rears its ugly head again in sparring, where sharp and crisp jabs and crosses frequently are met with a buzzer announcing you failed to throw the strike properly.
Graphics are decent, nothing remarkable, background music is derivative hard guitars trying to emulate the UFC feel. Sound effects are ridiculous, similar to 80’s kung-fu movies, like when a trainer throws a knee strike you hear a whoosh! Every step the trainer takes on the mat sounds way more dramatic than it should be.
Overall, I got some decent workouts in, but the game’s faults were so glaring that I became jaded with it after 2 weeks. Even Xbox Achievement hounds should steer clear of this sweaty turd. In closing, this title suffers greatly from its lack of polish. Perhaps next year’s edition will clear up the blemishes this is covered in. For a mere $20 more, I recommend George St. Pierre’s RushFit dvd set. Very varied, very demanding, very fun – and produces great results.
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