The great thing about dancing is it never feels like a workout. Just Dance is the dancing game you can play with just your console and smartphone. Put together your favorite dance playlists and sign up with a Just Dance Unlimited subscription if you want to customize your routine with a choice of over tracks. You can even dance with friends in co-op mode for up to six players. Ideal if you need a game to pick up and put down in short bursts.
Hot tip : Turn on Sweat Mode to find the most intense songs and view a calorie counter. Beat Saber is a unique and fast-paced way to get your body moving. Your rhythm and reflexes are put to the test with beats to slash and obstacles to duck. And the soundtrack can be expanded with a variety of downloadable music packs. There is nothing not to love about this workout. New for Multiplayer just landed in Beat Saber. Create and customize your avatar and join public or private matches with your friends online PlayStation Plus subscription required.
Train with Rocky Balboa himself and hone your boxing skills before going toe-to-toe with iconic fighters. Create custom matches in free play, or go player-to-player with friends in co-op. This game turns boxing workout techniques into a cinematic gameplay experience. If straight-up training sessions are more your bag, Box VR is a great boxing alternative.
The team behind the game collaborated with leading fitness instructors to create calorie-hungry workouts that track your progress and measure the burn. With three-minute warm-ups to minute endurance workouts, this game is perfect for beginners and seasoned pros alike. Over different tracks across music genres make this a great inclusive exercise game.
A fierce clash of game and workout for the ultra-competitive, Sprint Vector is a high-octane athletic racer. With formidable challenge maps and weapons to utilize against course and competitor, this unhinged game-show-meets-platformer is sure to get you moving.
The multi-award-winning Superhot VR is a boundary-breaking first person shooter in which the entire gameplay relies on your movement.
You're in control of time which freezes as you freeze and moves when you move. Use strategy and instinct to manoeuvre through a hurricane of slow-motion bullets. This gaming experience gets you moving at your own pace with visceral action that captures the imagination.
The game features real-life Zumba instructors, who will energetically lead you through the routines, and Switch Joy-Cons track your movement you'll want to strap them securely to your wrists. Zumba routines can get quite complex; however, you can choose your intensity level for each session, and some songs are slower than others.
But at the end of the day, Zumba: Burn It Up is a great option if you're looking for a serious workout, not just a game that involves moving, and if you love Zumba or have wanted to try it out, this is a fantastic way to enjoy the exercise from home.
One of few first-party Switch games to really utilize motion controls, Arms is a stylish fighting game featuring a large cast of unique characters. At its core, Arms is a 3D 1v1 fighting game that doesn't take itself too seriously, and as the title suggests, arms are key here. Each fighter has different mechanical arms and abilities, from fluttering ribbon arms and spring-loaded arms to arms with guns for hands and more.
Yes, Arms may be easier to play with a Pro controller than with Joy-Con motion controls, but if the aim is to get up and moving, Arms provides just that through its variety of game modes. Arms supports online lobbies of up to 20 people, but you can also play local versus matches and multiple battle mode minigames like basketball and volleyball. You can also get a nice workout playing the solo Grand Prix mode, which pits you against 10 computer-controlled characters to see if you have what it takes to secure the championship belt.
We knocked it a bit for its surprisingly steep learning curve, but once you get the controls down, it's a lot of fun. While VR isn't the most accessible platform for playing games, the physical aspects of VR gaming can make for an intensive workout, and we'd be remiss not to mention titles like Beat Saber here.
Check out our Oculus Quest 2 review for more info and check availability at Amazon below. Oculus Quest 2. See our list of the best VR headsets for more details on the headsets we recommend. Colored blocks fly toward you, and you swipe at them with the lightsabers in your hands--simple. Sure, it might seem relatively low impact when you're starting out, and as a rhythm game, it lacks the features that a dedicated workout experience might offer.
But it's worth getting invested; the better you get at Beat Saber, the better a workout it is. You might start on normal difficulty, or even hard, and higher levels of play will seem completely out of reach.
But the game's learning curve is really more of a friendly slope, thanks to readily available options like no-fail mode, song slowing, and practice mode. If you have the discipline to constantly set your sights on the next toughest challenge that initially seems unbeatable, you'll find yourself constantly improving. Once you start nailing songs on expert difficulty and toying with expert plus--not to mention modifiers that make songs more difficult, like extra speed or disappearing arrows--you'll find yourself pouring sweat and out of breath in no time.
Beat Saber also just released FitBeat, a new, free fitness track with standard, degree, and degree levels that leans even more heavily into the VR fitness game angle. FitBeat introduces some of Beat Saber's most challenging workouts yet, so there's no better time to dive in. Sprint Vector offers a fairly strenuous VR workout thanks to its constant use of motion controls. While your racer is technically strapped into "vector blades," Sprint Vector's first-person perspective makes it feel like you're going on a brisk run.
The sci-fi courses are littered with sharp turns and changes in elevation. In addition to the standard tracks, there are obstacle courses that add even more variables to impede your progress. So even though the majority of the experience requires you to pump your arms back and forth, you also have to perform more elaborate maneuvers to turn quickly and fling yourself atop high rise platforms.
The courses promote parkour-style movements, forcing you to exercise both your body and mind. Even after just one race, you'll feel the effort with Sprint Vector. And after a few, your forehead might get a little sweaty under the headset; your arms may start to feel like jello. Thankfully, Sprint Vector's fast-paced racing action is engaging enough to stick with the initial difficulties that come with mastering the control scheme.
After a while, gliding on these futuristic rollerblades will feel like second nature. You'll need plenty of space to play Sprint Vector, as it's a room-scale experience, as well as two motion controllers regardless of your platform of choice. Though Rec Room won't give you the same level of workout as some of the other games on this list, it feels like a really great game to recommend while social distancing. Rec Room offers a free-to-play VR space to socialize with friends and play some fun minigames using motion controls.
As of now, Rec Room has laser tag, dodgeball, disc golf, 3D charades, paintball, co-op quests where you square off against skeletons and werewolves, and even its own spin on battle royale dubbed Rec Royale. Rec Room is currently in early access, but as you can tell, it has a bevy of activities to enjoy alongside buddies from the comfort of your own living room.
So if you're looking for a lighthearted game that will get you moving and at least somewhat replicates the feeling of being with friends and loved ones, Rec Room is definitely worth checking out. The Kinect may leave a bad taste in the mouth of some gamers, but I was actually quite fond of its motion-tracking capabilities. One of my all-time favorite games, Dance Central, was also an excellent example of its best features put to great use.
The Kinect tracked your entire body as you reenacted dance moves from popular songs, making for an intense workout while also having a lot of fun and, honestly, just feeling cool. Unfortunately, the Kinect has fallen to the wayside, but there's a newer option for playing Dance Central in Dance Central VR is exactly how you remember it on consoles, even if the tracking is a little different. How to Play: Place the cups around a large, open area like a driveway, yard, or floor.
Set a timer for a short duration about a minute , and send the teams off to play. Then do it all again. And the distraction piles additional benefits onto each exercise that translate to the real world. So when you lean to the right to catch a card while lunging, you test your balance and coordination, as well as your mastery of that lunge position. We want to not just have strength but to be able to use it. And this drill does that. How to Play: Stand a few feet from each other, with one person holding the cards.
Both players assume a split-squat position—to do this, take a large step forward with your right leg, descending as you step until your left knee almost touches the ground. At the bottom of the split squat, both of your knees form right angles, with your right knee above—but not in front of—your toe.
In this position, the player with the deck throws one card at a time in the area of the partner. The partner must catch cards while maintaining the lunge position, leaning left and right, reaching up and down. The game can be played with other exercises, too—try holding a squat position, stand on one foot with a knee raised, or assume a bird dog or Warrior 3 position.
For more high-intensity movement, Jack says to face each other and do shuffles left and right, trying to throw and catch while maintaining the same speed.
Fitness Benefits: Besides the burning benefits of isometric lunges and squats, leaning from side to side and reaching up and down adds a ton of core stability to each of these movements. Having to maintain these positions also means training your balance and preparing for unexpected shifts—which translates both to sport and life, says Jack.
Once per day, each child chooses one scrap, and the family gets active together.
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