From mastering jabs in Fitness Boxing to shaking your hips in Zumba, five Nintendo Switch games that will keep you active
Are you struggling to find motivation to start working out? Or perhaps you’d like your children and other family members to move more often throughout the day?
If so, the Nintendo Switch can help. The console has a range of fun and entertaining sport and fitness-themed games, which might just encourage your family to exercise more regularly.
From mastering your jabs in Fitness Boxing to shaking your hips in Zumba: Burn it Up, here are the best Nintendo Switch games to keep you and your family active while still having fun.
Missing your boxing class? With Fitness Boxing you can train and exercise to a variety of energetic songs from top artists. The game is designed to help you learn boxing moves like jabs, hooks, cross strokes and uppercuts with the assistance of your personal fitness trainer. You can also proceed to learning advanced techniques such as defending and evading.
Your performance, including the number of strokes and an estimate of how many calories you’ve burned, is recorded in stats to help you improve. For more in-depth stats, you can also enter your weight and check your BMI (body mass index) in graphs.
If you want to use Fitness Boxing at a casual pace, the free training mode lets you choose how and when you want to exercise, focusing on specific areas of your body and adjusting the speed and intensity to suit your personal goals.
Fitness Boxing can also be played simultaneously with a second player for added fun and motivation.
Buy now on Amazon
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics may have been postponed, but you can still bring the gold medals home with Nintendo’s Mario and Sonic at the Olympics Tokyo 2020.
Join Mario, Sonic and a bunch of friends such as Luigi, Yoshi, Toad and Peach as you compete in more than 30 sports games, including track and field, archery and gymnastics.
The game can be played solo or with up to three other family members on one Nintendo Switch system (single and dual Joy-Con). You can even challenge friends online if you have access to Nintendo Switch Online.
Use either the Nintendo Switch’s Joy Con motion control to experience an immersive range of Olympic sports such as disc throwing and boxing, or enjoy the button mode for casual play if you’re playing the game on Nintendo Switch Lite.
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Get your Zumba class fix covered with Zumba: Burn it Up. The game features more than 30 songs including top hits and high energy Zumba songs. You and up to three other players can learn pulsating routines from real life superstar instructors as you work out at home.
Pick the intensity of your workout, set personal goals and choose from 30 hip-shaking classes to suit your fitness levels.
Buy now on GAME.co.uk
Ring Fit Adventure sees you travel to an exciting new world to take on Dragaux, an evil body-building dragon. Have fun and exercise as you encounter numerous enemies and defeat them by performing the exercise chosen on screen.
As you journey on through this thrilling adventure, you’ll improve your fitness levels. There are three different game modes – Adventure, Quickplay and Mini games.
You can also adjust the overall intensity of your workout to match your current fitness level, or enjoy a more traditional workout with Sets mode, which lets you perform individual exercises similar to a session at the gym.
This highly immersive game has been selling out worldwide since families have been spending more time at home. Online retailer ShopTo is giving its customers the option to pre-order the game, but there is no guarantee when this game might be back in stock.
Buy now on Shopto.net
Celebrating a decade of dancing with family and friends, Just Dance 2020 is packed with tons of fun content and cool features.
With 40 fresh tracks from chart-topping hits to family favourites and guilty pleasures, plus a song from Disney’s Frozen 2, players can dance solo in sweat mode or team up for an energising routine in co-op mode.
Have fun as you work out in the popular Sweat Mode, track your calories burnt and time spent dancing to monitor your fitness levels and keep yourself motivated.
With eight all new dance choreographies created with the help of kids’ development experts, the the kids mode is back by popular demand to promote and encourage healthy movement.
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