Features:

• Uses the Wii balance board
• 4 Workout types, strength training, weight loss, intervals and h climb
• motion based fitness activities such as ladder climb, rowing and monkey bars
• track personal data and progress
• Unlock lifestyle tips from Jillian

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
Become new recruits in Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009. Enroll in a unique training program composed of challenging fitness tests and an ever-changing series of workouts. Choose your workout from four types--Weight Loss, Strength Training, Intervals and Hill Climb--and set the intensity to light, medium or hard for a duration between 10 and 60 minutes. By completing exciting Wii Remote and Wii Balance Board motion-based challenges that range from crossing monkey bars to climbing ladders and rowing, you can also unlock lifestyle and fitness video tips from Jillian. You can even track your progress based on calories burned and workout intensity. In addition, a Competitive Party Mode lets two players race against each other through entertaining individual challenges or through the entire Physical Training course to earn the winning time.

Competitive Party Mode lets two players race against each other through entertaining individual challenges or through the entire Physical Training course to earn the winning time

Amazon.com Product Description:
Jillian Michael’s Fitness Ultimatum 2009 is the first game of its type to combine a celebrity fitness trainer with the Wii and innovative Wii Balance Board accessory to offer you a fun and entertaining way to get fit. Under Jillian’s expert guidance, you can pursue a focused workout that helps you reach your fitness goals through rigorous, branching exercise routines, and multiple difficulty levels that will get you in the best shape of your life! As a new recruit at Jillian’s boot camp, enroll in her unique training program and be challenged to an ever-changing series of workouts and fitness tests.

Choose your workout from four types:
Gear your workout to suit your goals when you choose either Weight Loss, Strength Training, Intervals, and Hill Climb modes. Set the intensity of your exercise routine to suit your pace: Light,Medium or Hard, then dictate workout length: 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes. Start each workout on the track by running down the Physical Training (PT) course of the training base in a series of judged challenges for up to 3 minutes. Motion-based fitness activities include: running obstacle courses, balance beam, hand car, rowing/paddling, crossing monkey bars, punching bags, and more.

Go Solo or Head-to-Head:
Choose your challenge from branching paths to dictate your own activity. Each challenge has three levels of difficulty, requiring progressively more motion and a harder workout (warm-up, target zone, cool-down, etc.) Competitive Campfire Mode lets two players race against each other through individual challenges or the entire PT course to see who can burn more calories.

Customization:
Customize your character and input personal data to serve as a benchmark for measuring progress via the Statistics screen that includes: calories burned, weight, in game performance and more. Unlock lifestyle and fitness video tips from Jillian that provide guidance on: targeted training,maximizing your workout, gym alternatives, traveling workouts, snacking, eating out, food substitutions, and cooking

Rating : - Why Jillian why!!
So I tried Jillian Anderson's Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for Wii. I really wanted it to be good, but here's what I experienced:

-It's not user friendly like Wii Fit. It was hard to figure out how to jog using the balance board, you have to shift your back heels in sync with your arms. This is definately a step down than even running in place on Wii Fit. Many of the other activities, monkey bars, log jumping, also take a while to get used to, as the speed of the demo avatar is going VERY fast.

- Half the game is getting Fitness Tips from Jillian Anderson. This might be valuable info for hardcore Jillian fans, but all the tips seemed common sense and lacked incentive for progressing through the game.

- Four modes: Weight Loss, Strength training, Hill climbing, and Intervals. So, to give you an idea of how they spread the events: Hill climbing is dodging punching bags. Strength Training is monkey bars (waving your arms above you). Kind of strange how they classify events!

-Multiplayer: This was a little more fun, however, the person who had never played before couldn't grasp the controls, so the more experienced person won, regardless if they were less fit.

-Overall: Anticipating this game for months, my expectations were much too high as a replacement for Wii Fit. This game might get a few more plays, but I'd just as soon get a more effective real workout.

Why Jillian!! This could have been great, but it feels rushed.