XBOX FITNESS

XBOX FITNESS

Invite a slew of extremely fit Americans into your TV

 

If you want to get fit, find

out what psychological tricks your brain responds

to. Need something that sounds scientific ? Take two P90X

and see us in the morning. Maybe you’re attached to your sense of masculinity ? Primal scream to the

Insanity workout. Or perhaps you’re the kind of person science, but likes words that sound

who doesn’t get like they mean something ? In that case, you’ll love Tracy Anderson’s

Omnicentric Metamorphosis All of these programmes are featured in the Xbox Fitness app that’s free to Xbox Live subscribers

on Xbox One. They’re a canny reworking of the hugely profitable but non-interactive fitness videos The workout plays in a window and the

new Kinect sensor tracks offering either your workout encouragement, or a corrective

commentary if you’re not bringing your knees up high

enough, or putting enough effort into it The new Kinect makes it a much less painful experience. The new lens is suited to smaller rooms, for starters, then there’s the

faster processor, which gives much more immediate and feedback than we’re used to. The

accurate much-vaunted ability to read your heart-rate

is interesting too, though not quite as magical as we’d feared working best when you’re stood still To appeal to the gamer in us there’s also a dial that turns a long streak of flawless performance into a multiplier, and your overall effort is translated