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EA Sports Active

EA Sports Active Review

EA Sports Active
EA Sports Active Review

EA Sports Active Review
The biggest challenge many Wii Fit owners face is that once you’re used to the device, it takes a ridiculously long amount of time to scroll through the games and actually get a workout.  There’s no continuous play mode that’ll move you from one workout to the next - i.e. squats to [...]

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EA Sports Active Balance Board Support

EA Sports Active

Being a faithful reader of Wii Fitness Review, you know the full  list of games included in EA Sports Active and you know which have balance board support.
But we’ve snagged the video below which shows how the boxing, tennis, volleyball, basketball, inline skating and baseball games actually use the balance board.  Check out EA Sports [...]

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EA Sports Active Expansion Packs

EA Sports Active

EA Games sees more than just a one-off seller in their EA Sports Active game, in fact, CEO Peter Moore says he sees the product as an entire platform on which to base expansion packs and accessories.
These EA Sports Active Expansion packs will target specific areas of the body one may wish to tone, such [...]

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Is EA Sports Active Just For Women?

EA Sports Active

I’ve seen questions around the ‘net about EA Sports Active ad targeting.  The FAQ on the game’s dedicated website even asks, “Can men use EA Sports Active?”
Short answer is, “Of course!”
But the long answer is…  Sorta.  When it comes down to it, the game IS being marketed towards women admits Draftcb, the advertising company responsible [...]

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Games / Modules In EA Sports Active

EA Sports Active

This is the full list of games included in EA Sports Active.  Six of them use the Wii Balance board.

Cardio Boxing (Hope it’s better than the Wii Fit boxing game!)
Basic Dance (Uh-oh, sounds like it requires coordination - maybe I’ll pass?)
Tennis
Inline Skating
Kick-Ups
Cardio Dance (It gets more complicated than Basic Dance?!!)
Kickbox (Cool!)
Batting
Volleyball (This sounds like a [...]

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Using the Wii Balance Board With EA Sports Active

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Wii Balance Board

Thank goodness EA Sports Active makes use of the Wii balance board!  That’s one thing I missed most from My Fitness Coach’s lackluster balance board support.
Here’s how you can use the Wii Balance Board with EA Active Sports:

Tennis: Lunges with forhand and backhand
Volleyball: Lunges added to setting and bumping
Cardio Boxing: Knee components & kicking in [...]

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Alesha Dixon & Victoria Pendleton Try EA Sports Active on the Wii

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EA Games isn’t just ramping up the launch of EA Sports Active here in the US, they’re making sure it gets airtime in the UK too by bringing celebrities on board.
British Olympic cyclist, Victoria Pendleton and pop singer Alesha Dixon are both given a chance to work challenge each other with with multiplayer features of [...]

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Allison Sweeney Works Out With EA Sports Active on “Ellen”

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Allison Sweeney, Days of our Lives star and Biggest Loser hostess took some time out of her schedule to make an appearance on Ellen and demo EA Sports Active. The cool thing here is that Allison just had a baby and says to Ellen that she’s been using EA Sports Active to lose the [...]

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EA Sports Active Commercial

EA Sports Active

Very cool commercial for EA Sports Active wherein you can see the thigh band that holds the Wii nunchuck, the resistance band one uses with the regular Wii remote and in combo with the nunchuck, as well as the various kinds of exercises you can do with the game.
Included in EA Sports Active are tennis, [...]

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How To Exercise With EA Sports Active

EA Sports Active

Here are some tips on working out most effectively with EA Sports Active:

Use your whole body when doing the movements
Bend your knees during tennis to get more out of your tennis stroke
In the basketball game, jump as high as you possibly can
Drop your body as low as possible before jumping off the inline skating ramps

When [...]

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