EA Sports Active | Bob Greene Fitness Game for the Wii Fit Balance Board

EA Sports Active is designed to give you the flexibility and variety you'll need to keep working out every day to reach your fitness and weight loss goals. The game comes with unique leg straps that hold the Wii Nunchuk to track your lower body movements, while the Wii Remote reads your upper body motions. You'll see your movements on screen in real time so you'll know how you're doing and get feedback on your technique.

Designed for 20-minute workouts, activities include everything from running and tennis to bicep curls and cardio boxing. Throughout your workouts you can see how many calories you've burned and how much progress you're making.

The EA Sports Active 30-Day Challenge game customizes your workouts to your fitness level and provides motivation and feedback to keep you challenged and on track to meet your personal goals. Or choose the custom mode to create custom workouts by setting the activity, duration and intensity of your sessions. For added intensity and game features, use the included resistance band or a Wii Fit Balance Board (sold separately).

EA Sports Active is in stock and available now
from Amazon.com.

The expansion pack EA Sports Active: More Workouts will be released on November 17, 2009, and is available to pre-order now from Amazon.com.

From an EA Sports announcement dated June 1, 2009:

EA SPORTS will expand the genre this holiday season with a new expansion pack for EA SPORTS Active, designed to work with the product just released. The expansion pack will bring the EA SPORTS Active workout to the next level by adding more challenge and variety, and users will keep their heart pumping through interactive circuit workouts featuring 30 brand new activities and exercises that target the upper and lower body, as well as cardio.

New to the EA SPORTS Active expansion pack will be an emphasis on core exercises including curl ups, crunch & punches, and a warm up/cool down feature. Sports activities will include step aerobics, an obstacle course, squash and water skiing, while a new emphasis on combinations will populate the upper and lower body exercises. An all-new presentation will bring users to the tropics and will immerse them in warm weather activities in a picturesque setting. The product will also feature the Six-Week Challenge - another step in the journey towards better health and fitness with new daily workouts that ramp up in intensity each week. This personalized full body challenge will give users a new customizable weekly schedule and a weekly check-in with the virtual trainer to track calorie, weight and workout goals.

Check back here for more information about the EA Sports Active Expansion Pack as it becomes available.