Personal Trainer: Walking - (NDS) Nintendo DS [Pre-Owned]

So I've used this game/ds cartridge/activity meter/whatever you want to call it for a few days now. I really love it. I purchased this to enhance my DSi experience, not because I expected to lose weight. I love all these gadgets that make our life better while we fool around on the DS. I didn't expect some high tech pedometer--just a fun little thing to play with for a while. I walk around barefoot all the time. I work at home. I never wear shoes, unless I absolutely have to. The activity meter registered my steps just fine. It also registered my steps when I ran as well. Overall, it worked well despite the warnings. Miis - For the first activity meter, I imported my mii from the wii. I wish there was more interaction back and forth, because my mii on the wii is getting a little porky due to my wii fit activity! However, my mii on the ds is getting a bit healthier looking. Super easy to connect. For the second activity meter, I created a mii, which was also pretty easy and fun. Being the first DS game to use mii's, I was quite impressed. Like I said, I wish they were more connected to the wii. Dog- I am waiting for my third activity meter to arrive so I can clip it to my dog. You can't really leave it on a dog while you aren't home, but it's an added little feature that makes the overall experience of Personal Training:Walking fun. Soon, one of pugs will be helping to illuminate the house and joining in on the space walk, with his own little mii to represent him! Mini-Games - These are like little goals. Keep the house lit and walk the world. Space Walk is a combined game with people from all over the world. While these may not be super fun for children, I enjoy plugging records in to see how far my household and I have progressed. I'm also trying to win some trophies before the other in my household do. View Worldwide Rankings - Using wi-fi, you can compare and compete with people from all over the world. Seriously, you can despite the other reviews saying you can't. This could be a huge motivator for some people. It's also just plain fun to see how you rank globally. Activity Meter - It's charts and graphs mostly, but you can rate your day and leave notes. This is helpful if you had a particularly lazy or eventful day. The DS has yet to call me fat, which my wii fit has several times when I don't weigh in every day. "Why have you gained 5 pounds, is it because you haven't exercised? huh, huh?" Okay, maybe it's not quite that bad, but you get my drift. I was called a koala on a particularly lazy day. It's really fun to go back and see when you were active. Oh that is when I walked to the car. That is when I walked the dog, etc... Compared to Pedometer - I busted out my old pedometer, which has the same inaccuracy warnings as the nintendo activity meter about being barefoot and running. I compared the results over the course of a day, and they were pretty close, about 60 steps apart. That is a normal day, with some running after dogs, walking, etc... Nintendo does not bill this as a pedometer and it really isn't...I would not buy one of these instead of a pedometer if you are trying to start a fitness routine. I use my nike+ for that. It allows for calibration and has all sorts of features. The nintendo activity meter is for fun! It just has a natural side benefit of promoting good health and exercise. (Of course, I didn't give up my yoga routine when I got the wii fit either, to each his own, i suppose.) Overall, I'm super happy with this game and the activity meter. EDIT: My partner just checked his first rhythm and was super excited, as he was able to see exactly when he did what by the activity chart. It was obvious when he walked the dog at 7 a.m., when he walked from his desk to the car around 8 p.m., etc... He is also way too excited that he reached his step goal before me today. He's not so excited that we only generate enough power for a flashlight. Perhaps, if we set our step goal higher, we'll be motivated to walk more and power something stronger. Overall, it's a ton of fun to see how your activity changes through the day. We'll be working on not being so lazy during the day perhaps...

I have only had the product for a couple of days now, but I thought I would share my findings from a test I did. I carried around my Omron pedometer in the same pocket with my activity meter all day. Note that the Omron is a fairly high end pedometer, and is calibrated to my stride for extreme accuracy. At the end of my day when I sync my activity meter with the game It read 13,404 steps, my Omron read 12,691 steps. A difference of 713 steps. I honestly thought the activity meter would have less steps with its needing 10 seconds of activity before registering, however this was obviously not the case. My day consisted of walking to and from work, normal walking in the office, and walking to and from a place for lunch. In my opinion this is a fairly small margin, more so than i was expecting with the cheaper activity meter. It is defiantly more accurate than the previous pedometer DS game. Hope this helps if you were curious of its accuracy.

I started using this on 31 March 2010, and stopped last night, 28 June 2024. I loved it, except for the snarky comments that were programmed into it (such as, Oh, did you get up to get a snack? when you had a long period sitting). I never missed a day and never missed my goal. My record day was 4 Dec 2019 with 33,645 steps. I had to replace it end of April 2022, because the cover button you press when having your Nintendo read the data came unglued and started sliding off (besides covering the light, so you do not know if you have or have not met your step goal until you let it be read in the DS). This time, the activity meter only lasted a year and two months (unopened set but manufactured many years ago). I couldn't get the spare to work, so I decided to say goodbye and use a new pedometer, and not worry about the extra features of this (and not be tied to taking the Nintendo DS on travel, so as not to miss a day). Please be advised, because this was manufactured so very long ago, the press button on the activity meter will fail, just as mine has twice now, and the second time very rapidly. The glue isn't meant to last endlessly. I loved it and it was a huge part of my fitness program. But now I feel freer, less tied down. And I walked an astronomical amount! Still will.

I was looking for something to motivate me to walk and track my progress. When I found this game I got very excited because it included a second pedometer for my husky puppy. So far it has been a great motivational tool and a lot of fun making my walking seem like a game rather than a chore. Of course my puppy consistently beats me as the top walker but its no wonder with all the time he chases the cats around the house. I enjoy seeing activity times as well so I can track when I am active during the day and monitor my puppy's activity to see if he s up late at night (helps me spot times when he needs to go outside and prevent accidents when he is consistently up at the same time early in the am according to the monitor). This has been a great deal of fun and I enjoy sharing our daily walking totals with my husband who is in Iraq makes him feel closer. Great all around game for any age or species lol I will have to put one on the cat to see who is truly number one in the house!

I didn't realize when I ordered it, that this game is for DS Lite only and not for all Wii systems. It is unusable to me, and I'm not sure what else to do with it at this point. Bummer!

I love this! It's a fun way to track your steps. It's not very accurate though, it stops counting after a bit or won't count some steps, it also has a habit of ignoring all of my activity until a certain point in the day. Plus it hits points where it doesn't record I had any activity for entire days.

Received this pedometer just before Thanksgiving. I have been using it for over two months now. It is very interesting to see my daily activity. I really liked the ability to transfer a Mii from my Wii to this game to use as my character. I was disappointed to see that it only stores up to two days of activity. If you do not transfer the data out at least every other day, you will lose any data older than the current and previous day. Sometimes, I cannot get my data transferred for three or four days. I wear the pedometer on a belt on my ankle boots. I realize it results in false readings as the device will register every movement of my foot as a step - even if I simply put my foot on the ground to turn in my chair at my desk. But wearing it on my boot is far more convenient than my waist. I purchased a calorie counter that I plan to use in conjunction with this item to really track my daily activity. I have experience very few problems with the product and enjoy watching my daily activity. They could have added a neutral option to the daily stamps (only options are bad, good, and great). The daily mini challenges are also interesting - except, if you wait two days to download your data, you have ended your day before you know what your mini challenge for that day is. All in all, I am happy with the product for the price I paid.

Negatives: Unfortunately, this does not register your steps until you reach 10. I am a school teacher so I walk around the classroom a lot. I walk maybe 7 or 8 steps and stop, then I may walk another 4 or 5 steps and stop. It does not catch any of these steps. When I sync the device, it shows that I was unactive the majority of the day! There are some days that I wish I could sit at my desk all day. Also, I like to see the numbers throughout the day, but this does not show them. The other night, I went to sync up and found that I was 20 steps below my target. I put the pedometer back on and walked around so I could meet my goal. On the positive, I liked the size and the ease of syncing the devise to the DS.

Bello, include anche 2 specie di gancetti che si possono attaccare dietro il contapassi, così ci se lo può agganciare dove si vuole. Ci sono dei mini giochi e degli obbiettivi da raggiungere. Consigliato per chi è fan della NDS e vuole tenersi in forma.

I have been a life long walker and favor Omron pedometers generally. Having being given a Nintendo DS for my birthday last Jan I quickly started accumulating health/fitness based games for it as well as games I played at arcades in the 80s like Centipede and Galaga. I really am enjoying Walk with me. It encourages you to walk more with the little Mii that you design yourself, the virtual walks, the hour by hour breakdown, the tracking of your steps that are in 10 minute increments, etc. I managed 70 miles last week and I really contribute it to this handy and fun little game. Highly recommended !!

Dank dieses witzigen Gadgets mit dem DS Spiel achte ich tägglich darauf so oft wir möglich rauszuegehen, damit das kleine Lichtchen grün blinkt. Mit all den gesammelten Schritten kann man einiges freischalten. Jeder der sich ein bisschen mehr zum motivieren lassen will und zusätzlich eine Belohnung zu seiner sportlichen Mühe erhalten möchte, sollte zugreifen. Es muss ja nicht unbedingt laufen sein, man kann auch Fahrad fahren gehen mit dem Schrittzähler oder genrellen Sport (der nicht im Wasser stattfindet" damit machen, da die Bewegung direkt ohne Probleme vom sensiblen Schrittzähler erkannt wird.

merci

Utile per chi vuole avere uno stimolo per valutare la sua attivita' fisica giornaliera. Non lo vedo tanto come gioco per bambini.