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- Platform: Nintendo DS
- Media: Video Game
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Active Health with Carol Vorderman comes packed with a sleek, specially designed pedometer, called an Activity Meter, which monitors your activity levels throughout the day when placed in your bag or pocket. Carol provides you with a daily step target and at the end of each day you simply point the Activity Meter at the Nintendo DS, like a TV remote control, and with one click of the button your data will be sent to your DS by infrared signal. Additional activity can also be entered into the software so whether you go for a long walk, a swim or do some gardening, it will all count towards your daily activity goal. You can input your Wii Fit activity into Active Health to keep track of additional exercises completed on the Wii.
On the path to reaching your goal, you can earn incentive points by maintaining exercise levels and selecting healthy food options as part of your diet programme. As points are earned, additional features such as new background music and images become unlocked. Active Health with Carol Vorderman also offers a variety of fun mini-games to help motivate you to keep healthy such as the Walking Challenge which converts your steps into miles so you can attempt to walk the distance between Land’s End and John O’Groats! To help improve your knowledge of the calorie count of popular foods Calorie Count Up is a mini game you can play alone or against Carol. You have to choose items from a selection shown on screen and see if you can reach the target of 1,000 calories.
Active Health with Carol Vorderman is a simple and motivating way to get you on track to a healthier lifestyle. It’s easy to use, fits around your life and can help to bring the fun back into healthy living. Active Health with Carol Vorderman helps you work towards a balanced lifestyle by focusing on your exercise regime, diet and fitness goals with:
Regular Exercise - Pop the Activity Meter in your pocket, then beam walking data to your DS. All exercises, like swimming or playing on Wii Fit can be added, too.
Healthy Eating - Input your meals for nutritional information. Unlock new recipes, then add the ingredients to a shopping list.
Fitness Goals - Set step goals and calorie targets, then see if you can stick to them and reach your ideal fitness levels.
On the path to reaching your goal, you can earn incentive points by maintaining exercise levels and selecting healthy food options as part of your diet programme. As points are earned, additional features such as new background music and images become unlocked. Active Health with Carol Vorderman also offers a variety of fun mini-games to help motivate you to keep healthy such as the Walking Challenge which converts your steps into miles so you can attempt to walk the distance between Land’s End and John O’Groats! To help improve your knowledge of the calorie count of popular foods Calorie Count Up is a mini game you can play alone or against Carol. You have to choose items from a selection shown on screen and see if you can reach the target of 1,000 calories.
Active Health with Carol Vorderman is a simple and motivating way to get you on track to a healthier lifestyle. It’s easy to use, fits around your life and can help to bring the fun back into healthy living. Active Health with Carol Vorderman helps you work towards a balanced lifestyle by focusing on your exercise regime, diet and fitness goals with:
Regular Exercise - Pop the Activity Meter in your pocket, then beam walking data to your DS. All exercises, like swimming or playing on Wii Fit can be added, too.
Healthy Eating - Input your meals for nutritional information. Unlock new recipes, then add the ingredients to a shopping list.
Fitness Goals - Set step goals and calorie targets, then see if you can stick to them and reach your ideal fitness levels.
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Includes: Activity Meter
Active Health with Carol Vorderman comes packed with a sleek, specially designed pedometer, called an Activity Meter, which monitors your activity levels throughout the day when placed in your bag or pocket. Carol provides you with a daily step target and at the end of each day you simply point the Activity Meter at the Nintendo DS, like a TV remote control, and with one click of the button your data will be sent to your DS by infrared signal. Additional activity can also be entered into the software so whether you go for a long walk, a swim or do some gardening, it will all count towards your daily activity goal. You can input your Wii Fit activity into Active Health to keep track of additional exercises completed on the Wii.
On the path to reaching your goal, you can earn incentive points by maintaining exercise levels and selecting healthy food options as part of your diet programme. As points are earned, additional features such as new background music and images become unlocked. Active Health with Carol Vorderman also offers a variety of fun mini-games to help motivate you to keep healthy such as the Walking Challenge which converts your steps into miles so you can attempt to walk the distance between Lands End and John OGroats! To help improve your knowledge of the calorie count of popular foods Calorie Count Up is a mini game you can play alone or against Carol. You have to choose items from a selection shown on screen and see if you can reach the target of 1,000 calories.
Active Health with Carol Vorderman is a simple and motivating way to get you on track to a healthier lifestyle. Its easy to use, fits around your life and can help to bring the fun back into healthy living. Active Health with Carol Vorderman helps you work towards a balanced lifestyle by focusing on your exercise regime, diet and fitness goals with:
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82 of 83 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
There were a few options available when I bought this, the other being Walk With Me! Do You Know Your Walking Routine? - Includes Two Activity Meters (Nintendo DS). They both have activity meters but where-as Walk With Me has a 'challenge the world' background to it, Active Health with Carol Vorderman is all about you.
The first job you'll need to do it log your weight with it. Then you can start to get the feel of what it is about. It isn't a game (not really) it is more a fitness/health coach that fits in your pocket.
Pick up the Activity Meter and place it in your pocket. Thats it. Leave it there. Really! You don't need to get it out and you'll soon forget it is there. Thats the beauty of this, it doesn't have to be clicked to your belt so everyone knows what you are doing. Discreet and small so doesn't get in the way.
How-ever many times a day you can upload the steps you've made direct to the Nintendo DS (wirelessly) and it will not only tell you how many steps, but also when in the day they are AND at what pace (normal or high). You can do this through-out the day or, like me, you can just do it once a day. According the booklet you can keep a couple of weeks info in there. This will all be logged and graphed by the DS and you can see your daily performance. You can also unlock a challenge of walking all the way from Lands End to John O'Groats - The Longest walk starts with the smallest step!
You can also unlock a step challenge which takes more details information of walks so you can time yourself and set personal challenges. This needs to be done and activated on the DS whenever you wish to start a challenge so you are unable to do it just from the activity meter. If you are doing a challenge then the activity meter can only hold about a weeks worth of data but this is more than enough.
The above is only half of what Active Health with Carol Vorderman can do.
The other side of it is the nutritional advice. You can easily add your food eaten/drinks drunk and it keeps a tally of the calories but also the fat/sugars/salt. If you have entered your weight at the start it will tell you how many calories a day you should have. The foods can be chosen from a huge list or you can add your own foods (if you have the nutritional details) and once you have added them once, it remembers them and you can chose them another day as easily as the foods built in!
It does have some cookery dishes built in and will even give you a shopping list of what to buy to make them. Instructions to create fantastic healthy dinners are a swipe of the stylus away!
At the end of your day, after you've uploaded all your steps and you've updated everything you've eaten you can click a button and get an evaluation of your 'performance' on the day. To tie in with the Vorderman experience you hear her say, "Hello" and then "Goodbye" at the end. But you wont be buying this for Carol's voice but the easy and usefulness of the program itself.
The Amazon price is much cheaper than those on the High Street so I recommend you order it now, have your '1 last blowout meal' this evening, and when it arrives tomorrow take your first step to a new you!
The first job you'll need to do it log your weight with it. Then you can start to get the feel of what it is about. It isn't a game (not really) it is more a fitness/health coach that fits in your pocket.
Pick up the Activity Meter and place it in your pocket. Thats it. Leave it there. Really! You don't need to get it out and you'll soon forget it is there. Thats the beauty of this, it doesn't have to be clicked to your belt so everyone knows what you are doing. Discreet and small so doesn't get in the way.
How-ever many times a day you can upload the steps you've made direct to the Nintendo DS (wirelessly) and it will not only tell you how many steps, but also when in the day they are AND at what pace (normal or high). You can do this through-out the day or, like me, you can just do it once a day. According the booklet you can keep a couple of weeks info in there. This will all be logged and graphed by the DS and you can see your daily performance. You can also unlock a challenge of walking all the way from Lands End to John O'Groats - The Longest walk starts with the smallest step!
You can also unlock a step challenge which takes more details information of walks so you can time yourself and set personal challenges. This needs to be done and activated on the DS whenever you wish to start a challenge so you are unable to do it just from the activity meter. If you are doing a challenge then the activity meter can only hold about a weeks worth of data but this is more than enough.
The above is only half of what Active Health with Carol Vorderman can do.
The other side of it is the nutritional advice. You can easily add your food eaten/drinks drunk and it keeps a tally of the calories but also the fat/sugars/salt. If you have entered your weight at the start it will tell you how many calories a day you should have. The foods can be chosen from a huge list or you can add your own foods (if you have the nutritional details) and once you have added them once, it remembers them and you can chose them another day as easily as the foods built in!
It does have some cookery dishes built in and will even give you a shopping list of what to buy to make them. Instructions to create fantastic healthy dinners are a swipe of the stylus away!
At the end of your day, after you've uploaded all your steps and you've updated everything you've eaten you can click a button and get an evaluation of your 'performance' on the day. To tie in with the Vorderman experience you hear her say, "Hello" and then "Goodbye" at the end. But you wont be buying this for Carol's voice but the easy and usefulness of the program itself.
The Amazon price is much cheaper than those on the High Street so I recommend you order it now, have your '1 last blowout meal' this evening, and when it arrives tomorrow take your first step to a new you!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Finally, I have found something which actually encourages me to keep fit, and monitor my eating habits. Firstly I would not class this as a game. The Wii fit is a game compared to this. I love the step monitor, I just stick it in my pocket and away I go. Took me awhile to figure out that you can actually manually input what you eat, using the PDA function, this is nothing to do with the design structure of this software, but more of a case of I did not look at each function properly. Another great feature of this is the walking challenge. Annoyingly, I lost my old DS along with all the data and had to start again, but I am well on my way to reaching St Ives, but the ultimate goal is to reach John O Groats. The other feature I like about this is that it only has room for one profile, my partner is also hooked to this, and unless we had both bought it we would be constantly fighting over it.
I think this is the best out of similar software out there as this is based on English measurements. I have my fitnes coach, plus others, but they are too Americanised for me (no disrespect to America). Afterall we use stones and pounds, grams and millilitres, whereas on other software it all seems to be cup this and cup that.
The other good thing about Carol Vodermanns package is that she designs a meal plan for you, and although I am not using this yet, it gives me an alternative to what I usually eat. She tells you if you have had too much sugar etc, and also tells you if you are not eating enough and doing too much exercise.
It gives you a review at the end of each week and awards you a bronze, silver or gold medal depending on how well you have done. This is another great incentive to keep going with it along with reward points for everything entered, you get 10+ reward points if you exceed your daily step target, which opens up new colours, music and obviously the walking challenge and the session tracker which means if you go to the gym or know you are going to be doing an activity for a certain amount of time you can input the data and it will keep a record for you and then you just point the step monitor at the games console and there you go, all the data is entered for you. You can also manually input data aswell, for example, if you do a weight circuit at the gym, do housework or other activities you can go into the body section of the game and chose the option you require and Carol will tell you the equivalent in steps. It is quite amazing how quickly you can build up your steps just from walking around the house.
At the end of each week it will do a review,so it is a good idea to keep monitoring your weight and enter this regularly. At the moment I am not to concerned about weight loss, as I am training for a physical test in October, but I have already noticed that i have lost a couple of pounds, although it is hard to tell as muscle weighs more than fat anyway.
All in all a great idea, and I would recommend it to anyone.
I think this is the best out of similar software out there as this is based on English measurements. I have my fitnes coach, plus others, but they are too Americanised for me (no disrespect to America). Afterall we use stones and pounds, grams and millilitres, whereas on other software it all seems to be cup this and cup that.
The other good thing about Carol Vodermanns package is that she designs a meal plan for you, and although I am not using this yet, it gives me an alternative to what I usually eat. She tells you if you have had too much sugar etc, and also tells you if you are not eating enough and doing too much exercise.
It gives you a review at the end of each week and awards you a bronze, silver or gold medal depending on how well you have done. This is another great incentive to keep going with it along with reward points for everything entered, you get 10+ reward points if you exceed your daily step target, which opens up new colours, music and obviously the walking challenge and the session tracker which means if you go to the gym or know you are going to be doing an activity for a certain amount of time you can input the data and it will keep a record for you and then you just point the step monitor at the games console and there you go, all the data is entered for you. You can also manually input data aswell, for example, if you do a weight circuit at the gym, do housework or other activities you can go into the body section of the game and chose the option you require and Carol will tell you the equivalent in steps. It is quite amazing how quickly you can build up your steps just from walking around the house.
At the end of each week it will do a review,so it is a good idea to keep monitoring your weight and enter this regularly. At the moment I am not to concerned about weight loss, as I am training for a physical test in October, but I have already noticed that i have lost a couple of pounds, although it is hard to tell as muscle weighs more than fat anyway.
All in all a great idea, and I would recommend it to anyone.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I wont go into how the game works, as I'm sure you've already read about it, most people will read these reviews to find out: is it easy to use and will it help you loose weight. Well in my experience, Yes!.
I bought this "game" 5 weeks ago and I am now 6 pounds lighter. I would recommend this game for anyone trying to loose weight in a healthy and controlled way. This isn't a fad diet and wont make you loose a stone in a day, it gives support and guidance to allow you to loose weight slowly, which means it isn't a massive life style adjustment and therefore its easy to keep the weight off. I have found I can still eat Chocolate, fish and chips, Chinese take away and still loose weight. All you have to do is try to stick within the guidelines, it tells you how many calories to eat each day and how many steps to walk. I find if I know I'm going to eat for example, a big bar of chocolate in the evening, I just try to have a lower calorie lunch and therefore, I save my calories for later. That way I can still eat "bad food" without going over my daily allowance. I don't know if this game will work for everyone, but I know I looked for reviews when I bought the game from people who had lost weight from using it and couldn't find any, well I have lost weight from using this game and I found it 10000 times easier than going to the gym.
Im still planning to loose more weight, but this game is working, so Im definalty going to keep using it.
Easy to use and aslong as you try to stick to the daily guidlines, I see no reason why it wont help others. My mum has been so impressed by my progress, she is now buying one too!!.
I bought this "game" 5 weeks ago and I am now 6 pounds lighter. I would recommend this game for anyone trying to loose weight in a healthy and controlled way. This isn't a fad diet and wont make you loose a stone in a day, it gives support and guidance to allow you to loose weight slowly, which means it isn't a massive life style adjustment and therefore its easy to keep the weight off. I have found I can still eat Chocolate, fish and chips, Chinese take away and still loose weight. All you have to do is try to stick within the guidelines, it tells you how many calories to eat each day and how many steps to walk. I find if I know I'm going to eat for example, a big bar of chocolate in the evening, I just try to have a lower calorie lunch and therefore, I save my calories for later. That way I can still eat "bad food" without going over my daily allowance. I don't know if this game will work for everyone, but I know I looked for reviews when I bought the game from people who had lost weight from using it and couldn't find any, well I have lost weight from using this game and I found it 10000 times easier than going to the gym.
Im still planning to loose more weight, but this game is working, so Im definalty going to keep using it.
Easy to use and aslong as you try to stick to the daily guidlines, I see no reason why it wont help others. My mum has been so impressed by my progress, she is now buying one too!!.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Active health, the fun way.
I have tried diets before, but this is really good. Ok you have to keep putting info in, & keep up dating, but it makes you reolise how much exercise you are having, & how much you... Read more
Published 8 hours ago by Butterfly
fantastic!!
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Published 14 days ago by skm
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The pedometer seems to work quite well and motivates you to walk more.
Con:
I found it difficult to enter the calories for what I had eaten as there was not... Read more
The pedometer seems to work quite well and motivates you to walk more.
Con:
I found it difficult to enter the calories for what I had eaten as there was not... Read more
Published 5 months ago by rosycakes
more of a question than a review
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Absolutely brilliant, I love the way that it can track how far you've walked and then tell you how far you've walked across the entire country. Great game.
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Bought this game on the basis of a lot of positive amazon reviews. I'm a person who perhaps doesn't need to loose a lot of weight, but I would like to shift up to a stone in my... Read more
Published 11 months ago by KR
Better nutrition choices - not just weight loss
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Published 12 months ago by Nicola
Easy and fun to use.
I got this at a bargain price, definitely makes me keep an eye on what I eat and my steps, fun to use.
Love it
Love it
Published 12 months ago by Mandy
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