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Other than these two settings and the option to choose a 10, 20 or (once it’s unlocked) 30-minute workout time, there isn’t really much more flexibility to the Personal Training mode. Its aim is simply to provide you with a different series of courses every day, to try and keep each workout feeling fresh. You get a daily stamp every time you complete a Personal Training session, and can then check a graph to study how many calories you’ve burnt and how many reps you’ve performed over time. You can also enter your weight whenever you like, so you can track your BMI and weight loss changes on the graph over time. ROMSLAB

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Once you’re done with Personal Training it’s locked off until the following day, meaning the only thing left for you to play is the second mode, 3-Minute Fitness. This consists of 60 separate workouts, each lasting 3-5 minutes in length and offering various intensities. At first, only a handful of these are unlocked, but more become available as you discover them in Personal Training. These workouts are also split into five different categories – Warm-Up, Boxing, Kickboxing, Fighting (which incorporates Muay Thai moves) and a final Challenge section with more intense sessions. Other than choosing your workouts, however, your other options are fairly limited.

Friendly to strict, guides you through personalized training programs, helping you achieve individual goals and offering something new every day.

You can choose between four trainers (two of whom are locked at the start of the game) and three different studios, none of which are particularly inspiring. There are also 25 music tracks to choose from, but unlike in the Fitness Boxing games they aren’t based on popular songs. They’re a mixture of EDM, Techno, Trance, Rock and Hip Hop, and while they’re harmless enough they’re hardly memorable. That said, some of the tracks almost act like achievements, because they’re locked away and can only be unlocked by achieving target scores on specific challenges, which at least adds some sort of objective to the game. The actual workouts themselves are exactly the sort of thing you would expect from the Wii era of fitness games. Cloudy Valley Switch NSP

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You’re shown a series of icons depicting different left and right-sided strikes and, holding a Joy-Con in each hand, you have to perform them to the beat of the music. Given that it incorporates a number of different fighting styles, the attacks you’re asked to perform vary quite a bit. Expect to be pulling off jabs, crosses, uppercuts, blocks, hooks, knees, elbows, kicks, squat punches — the full shebang. On paper (well, on a screen), it looks like an impressive degree of variety. The game doesn’t tell you which action to perform using an intuitive symbol, but only via text on the circles – and reading this in time can be difficult, especially at the beginning, given the high and non-adjustable game speed.

Over 25 different music tracks, encompassing genres like EDM, techno, trance, rock, and hip hop, provide motivation.

A while before you reliably perform the actions with the correct hand: The symbols appear for both hands on the left half of the screen and differ only in their red and blue semicircles. The similarly designed Fitness Boxing solves this somewhat more intuitively with easily recognizable symbols that scroll across the screen on the left and right. However, once you get the hang of it after a while of getting used to it and experiencing some initial frustration, a nice flow can develop while playing, which is quite fun and will really make you sweat thanks to the fast sequences of movements – depending on your current state of health, of course. Cloud Gardens Switch NSP

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For those who really want a workout, increase the length of your daily random workout to 20 or 30 minutes, or strap on ankle weights. Speaking of arms: since you only use the two Joy-Cons in each hand in the game, only arm movements are registered. Leg moves are automatically registered as successful. I’d like to start off this review by stating for the record that not only did I take personal training for four years, I have lived with a yoga instructor for the past 10 years. I say this because Knockout Home Fitness, like any other exercise game, can only do so much for players in terms of form. This is not the fault of any one particular game, the technology just isn’t there to be able to adequately monitor a person’s form while exercising.

The players get fit through intensive, calorie-burning exercises based on boxing, karate, kung fu and Muay Thai.

If you have a good foundation in form and what you’re supposed to be feeling while playing Knockout Home Fitness instead of just going through whatever motions to get the Joy-Cons to register your movement, you’re going to get more out of this game. Also worth considering any physical limitations that may prevent you from playing fitness games, like a previous injury. Just throwing that out there. Anyway, Knockout Home Fitness starts players off by getting them warmed up to both programs — the game and the fitness regimen. The game will ask you for your height and weight so it can adequately calculate how many kcals you’re burning; if you’re sharing your Switch with others.

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You can protect this information using a passcode, which I found to be a nice privacy touch. After that, one of the four coaches, Satsuki, will explain the basics: one 15 minute personal training session a day is all you’re allowed to take on, but for those wanting to sweat a bit more are welcome to continue with 2 – 5 minute one-off challenges. The available actions in Knockout Home Fitness are based off real martial arts moves, complete with three separate stances — but first, stretching! Although this is a setting that can be toggled on or off, everyone knows a great workout begins with some stretches. The coach of your choice will walk you through five different stretches that will loosen up the limbs in preparation for some kickassery. Cloud Gardens Switch NSP

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