Today, I completed exercising.

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DIFFICULTY LEVEL
30

RING PRESS
14026 times

ABDOMINAL PRESS
4462 times

FRONT PRESS
3840 times

OVERHEAD PRESS
3699 times

RING RAISE COMBO
3343 times

SQUAT
3150 times

KNEE LIFT
2409 times

ABDOMINAL PRESS & TWIST
2473 times

STANDING TWIST
2313 times

TREE POSE
1935 times

BACK PRESS
1733 times

SEATED RING RAISE
1616 times

KNEE-TO-CHEST
1546 times

OVERHEAD ARM SPIN
1489 times

LEG SCISSORS
1371 times

BOW PULL
1118 times

THIGH PRESS
1078 times

PLANK
1073 times

PUSH & PULL RUSH
987 times

OVERHEAD HIP SHAKE
968 times

RUSSIAN TWIST
945 times

LOW RING PRESS
928 times

LEG RAISE
914 times

PEDAL RUSH
844 times

REVOLVED CRESCENT LUNGE POSE
836 times

FLUTTER KICK
802 times

SIDE STEP
792 times

WARRIOR I POSE
764 times

MOUNTAIN CLIMBER
740 times

WIDE SQUAT
733 times

ABDOMINAL TWIST PRESS RUSH
702 times

CHAIR POSE
608 times

ABDOMINAL PRESS SIDE BEND
584 times

TRICEP KICKBACK
543 times

HINGE POSE
514 times

RUSH LIFT
499 times

KNEE-LIFT COMBO
470 times

WARRIOR II POSE
469 times

OVERHEAD SQUAT
459 times

OVERHEAD HIP SHAKE RUSH
458 times

OVERHEAD KNEE LIFT RUSH
449 times

SWING CLIMBER
433 times

OVERHEAD BEND
421 times

OVERHEAD LUNGE TWIST
387 times

KNEE LIFT RUSH
387 times

PENDULUM BEND
335 times

SEATED FORWARD PRESS
313 times

UPPER BODY TWIST
266 times

OVERHEAD SIDE BEND
264 times

THIGH PRESS RUSH
251 times

ABDOMINAL PRESS & TWIST SQUATS
221 times

BOAT POSE
220 times

HIP LIFT
208 times

RING PULL
147 times

WARRIOR III POSE
140 times

ABDOMINAL PRESS & TWIST
125 times

SHOULDER PRESS
80 times

STRETCH & BEND RUSH
70 times

WIDE-SQUAT RUSH
58 times

STANDING FORWARD FOLD
32 times

FAN POSE
28 times

ABDOMINAL PRESS SQUATS
19 times

THIGH SQUEEZE
4 times

TREE POSE HOLD
4 times

DASH
42,771 yards

JOGGING
26,457 yards

KNEES LIFTED
4352 yards

WALKING
3 yards

TOTAL DISTANCE TRAVELLED
65km

TOTAL TIME EXERCISING
43:38:21

Making this as soon as I can after my first workout so I can spread the good word for all those in quarantine, have a switch they haven’t used in a while, and are looking to put down money for some cheap exercise equipment to get this game as soon as they can.

It’s amazing how effortlessly nintendo has created this legitimate workout regimen that can be tougher than any palates class I’ve taken. Combined with its general slick presentation, solid customization to keep up a decent rigor without overworking yourself, and a genuinely solid (and incredibly long) campaign it’s really difficult to NOT recommend it for most. Albeit, it is dependent on how “fun” you think exercise can be.

I’ve finished the first two worlds so far and I definitely plan to update this as my workout continues!! Praying for these gains ^^

This dang fitness game is way better than it has any right to be...
After 6 months of playing it, I finally finished my first playthrough of Adventure Mode yesterday. 65+ hours of in-game time which equates to about 30 hours of fitness time since the clock only runs while you're moving. Stop running to take a drink, clock stops. Stop mid-set, clock stops. A full hour-long workout would usually equate to about 30ish minutes of "fitness time".
I would usually play about 3-4 days a week on average. Sometimes I'd slack for a couple weeks. Sometimes my sessions were only 20 minutes.
My wife and I are both typically not very motivated to work out, but this got both of us to finally make a better habit of it.

This game somehow manages to balance interesting, simple JRPG mechanics with various fitness activities that actually give you a good workout and will leave you sore the next day if you overdo it.
There's a leveling system, skill tree, gear with perks, consumables to make. There's more to this game than I ever thought there would be.

Even though I'm done with the main "story", I'm excited to dive back in to finish up side quests, complete my catalog, and keep working out.
I still have a couple more side quests to clean up before moving on to New Game+ and then eventually New Game++.

There's also Quick Play and Custom modes so you can create your own workouts if you don't feel like spending the time doing Adventure Mode.
So, if you want to just do an arms workout for 20 minutes, you can do that. If you want to just run for 30 minutes, you can do that too.
I've already sold 4 other friends on this game and they're all now happily hooked on it.

My recent obsession with Beat Saber has finally been the death knell for Ring Fit Adventure, after months of telling myself I'd return to Ring Fit one day hopefully. It just feels too much at points like I'm just being told an exact list of what to do by a personal trainer, which I very much get is the point but I much prefer how something like Beat Saber works as a game that I'd want to play even outside of the immense health benefits and that those health benefits are instead just a bonus for doing something I'd want to do anyway.

It doesn't help that the aesthetic is a lot. It's dorkiness was initially charming, but hours of hearing the same phrases over and over grows grating. It's hard for me to be too down on the game as I can see it works for a lot of people and clearly does some things very right, but it is not at all for me.

As someone that enjoys playing games while working out as a sort of distraction from the sores, I found Ring Fit Adventure to be the perfect way of working out for me. And I can say from experience that it really works if you commit to it, which doesn't take a lot out of your day. The stages are designed with the intention of giving your workout variety so that you are encouraged to not be constantly repeating the same exercises. Workouts having cooldowns in combat also adds to this factor.

The story... exists, and I don't really like the ring character but they are sorta necessary to the how the game was designed. so I don't really mind it.

If you're able to work out from home and have a Switch, then I highly recommend it. The only real downside I can think of is that I've felt the joycons need to be calibrated very often. I've had several instances where I needed to go down until I was practically sitting before the game counted it as a squat.

Unfortunately I had to shelve it due to my current living arrangements not being ideal for playing this game (flats and their shitty flooring, amirite?)

What surprised me about this game is how considerate it is. Between meal tips, detailed stretch demonstrations, feedbacks and bits of advice, it has little touches that ask you what you think of the difficulty or how you're feeling in general, considers your surroundings and lots of other minute variables. When you have to get up or change positions, it reminds you not to rush. It will check your pulse, tell you how you're doing, and when it thinks you might be tired, asks you to consider if you want to stop now, or when you might want to stop and take a break, creating a supra-cognizance and to allow the player to reconsider and evaluate their own personal goals.

It feels very much like a personal trainer in the form of a game. The way the ring peripheral is used is also very smart with the game and level design. It's all very simple, but very effective at feeling like a game rather than a haphazard mishmash of conflicting goals between personal fitness and play. It allows for the fitness goals to dictate the mechanics and the player's personal goals to modulate the details of the game through a flexible rpg system.

I embrace and welcome the ludic future, a true extension of the ludic past. More gamification of lifestyle and personal or experiential expression, less gamification to maximize profit incentive and user retention.

The coolest thing about this game is that the act of finishing it is a smokescreen. If you actually went all the way to the end, and did everything, I salute you, but the real point for most is to stop playing the campaign and pretty much spend all your time using the custom workouts or something that feels right for you. To go at your own pace.

The amazing heartfelt purpose is simply to establish a routine, pushing you on, congratulating you, giving tool tips and etc. just to get you into a workout mindset. With enough body positivity I was able to come back and establish what I need to do, giving myself a full regimen to stick to for the past week or so now. The gamey part falls away, now earnestly happy to just let you use it to your heart's content. Feels great.

Genuinely one of the best things to come out of the switch and a genius bit of kit. Ring fit is a hell of a workout and makes me soak with sweat, but equally as important - its well designed and great fun.

Ring fit’s colourful art style, varied gameplay modes and rpg elements in adventure are all strongly executed to make this an enjoyable and immensely replayable fitness game that keeps me coming back. I particularly like how the game encourages you through its sections, my favourite parts are the jogging levels which fly by because of how it always switches up what you need to be doing - collecting rings, jumping, shooting wind blasts, getting past obstacles, riding ziplines, its great food for my attention lacking brain and actually turns the otherwise mind numbing practice of jogging on the spot into something I enjoy, congrats ring fit!

The ring itself is an amazingly sturdy and versatile piece of equipment that isn’t expensive but you wouldn’t be able to tell because of how good it feels to use. I often find the joy cons’ motion detection quite hit or miss but for whatever reason its almost flawless in this game. Sometimes the game has trouble detecting that you’re in the right starting position and you can’t start an exercise until it does, but there’s ways around it, that’s the only fault i’ve noticed.

Adventure mode does lose its appeal after a while and is honestly a bit too slow with giving you fit skills so you end up doing the same exercises way too much so I only do custom workouts now. The voice acting can be very grating especially when you are dying inside from planking or something so this game gets turned all the way down while I stick music on lol. Otherwise, excellent game that I recommend to basically everyone, its actually great ngl

This is extremely good and probably Nintendo's best effort on the switch, it's been a huge help at staying in shape during covid times and I never felt intimidated nor underestimated by it.

That said there's still a TON of room for improvement. Squats are hell, I got good at doing them because of this game, but I was actually in repeated pain for the first week because of how low it expects you to bend. They should've made the distance more lenient based on your difficulty.

The game's pacing is also really bad - not as an exercise course, but as a game, and that kinda bleeds into the way you use it as a workout routine. All of its ideas are used up in rapid succession during the first 7 worlds or so, and then after that it's just going through the motions with a couple small curveballs here and there. You run through the same locales, fight the same enemies with different colors, etc. The length of the later worlds also gets really egregious, they got anywhere from two to three times as long as the usual ones. I was able to keep a daily pace for this game for about 5 weeks before my interest started waning and I swapped to every other day, eventually just dropping it and not picking it back up until later.

Also the leg strap fabric is REALLY not that great and always fell off my leg no matter what fabric my shorts were made of, where i placed it on my leg or how tightly i wound it.

Ring Fit's top tier, it's without a doubt the best exercise game ever made, but it's also not as content-heavy as an exercise game needs to be - something that Nintendo's Switch library is extremely guilty of. I hope a sequel is eventually released that just adds more to the gameplay elements.

Quite possibly the best fitness game ever made. The control setup makes it hard to cheat, and the game was very clearly made by people who understand game design. I am a fat guy who hates the very idea of sweating and I found myself wanting to quit multiple times but continuing because "ah just a little bit left". The game-ification elements are masterfully implemented and the game respects your intelligence. You know you're exercising - it's not going to try and trick you into forgetting that - but it's going to show you all those satisfying numbers going up and you're going to want to keep going. I've played a number of fitness games, but nothing that so masterfully uses game mechanics to keep players engaged.

The kind of slimy engagement-bait that are typically used to get players to sink neverending time and/or money are used here to keep your game-addicted brain exercising and I think it's fantastic.

This game is amazing! It’s not a miracle weight loss by any means, but it got me exercising at home. There are times where it’s helped me lose weight and some times where I’ve maintained weight, but it’s gotten me into exercise which I’m proud of. Maybe it’ll even get me to a gym someday. What’s amazing is the customization, encouragement and how beefy this game is. Like seriously there is a ton you can do. I’m 60 hours in and just taking my time with it so I haven’t even finished the story mode yet. One of the most helpful games I’ve ever owned

So, today marks the date of my completion of the adventure main campaign (haven’t started new game+), and I wanted to write a review for it, but it struck me that most people usually look up reviews of this game to ask, “does it work to lose weight / make me fit” and the answer I’m gonna give to you is a resounding “it can (with proper dieting and routine)”
Which is always frustrating to hear as every exercise tool is always given this answer, I get it too, you just wanna be able to determine if you can get fit with this game but if you’ve ever been interested in losing weight you know that exercise is only about 25% of the deal, I’m not a nutritionist not even a huge fitness person so I’m not gonna tell you if its gonna work to lose weight or gain muscle, but what I am going to tell you, is ring fit adventure a good exercise tool? In my amateurs opinion, yes!
But as I’ve been introspecting in between my exercise sessions, I wanna write a little bit more so in this review ill go over some pros, cons and talking about the story of adventure mode and my personal story with the game, cw for eating disorder talk on the rest of this review.

Pros
- Obviously, it’s a good way to get exercise at home as a newbie, I didn’t know most of these exercises and frankly didn’t know how to do how to properly do 90% of any of them before playing the game.
- The game is really nice to you, I really mean it, I said this in an old review here, but the game constantly encourages you, and never shames you for lowering the difficulty or taking breaks in your routine.
- I may just be a huge daydreamy nerd when I’m saying this, but this game makes me feel like I’m inside an rpg, as dumb as this sounds, the visuals and the sound design made me feel like I was actually a hero struggling trough a cool fantasy adventure, the physical struggle that I felt doing the exercises didn’t make me feel like usual when I used to exercise, you know, bored, in pain, waiting for it to end so I could go to have some real fun, but instead it immersed me and made me feel like I was running around the world and actually beating monsters, it kept my mind out of the exercise and the goal of weight loss and instead made me feel that my goal instead of losing x weight was to go and defeat dragaux, not to say I didn’t feel the exercise physically I obviously did but when I did reps of some exercise I didn’t feel like giving up or just plain bored, I just felt like I was a good ole rpg hero and I was just casting a move that was strenuous, daydreaming is a good way to get me to do things, so the game tricked me into doing more and more time and putting more difficulty level as I went ahead
- The best thing about this game, I think , is that its not at all focused on weight, unlike Nintendo’s past fitness endeavor, this game only uses your weight ONCE, to calibrate your fitness level, it never brings it up again nor does it inflate your mii character and play a comic trumpet sound effect while telling you you’re fat unlike…other Wii balance board based game of Nintendo’s roster….which is really good for someone like me whose weight is something that can be pretty triggering as I’ve dealt with eating disorders in the past and the urgency to lose weight really triggers it, if I had a Wii fit and I had to weigh myself EVERY DAY and see my bmi charting I would have basically died.
- A small little pro that doesn’t really matter if you’re just in it for the training stuff it doesn’t really “matter” but GOD I LOVE the sound design of this game, not only the instructions given by ring, the sound effects can make you tell if you’re doing an exercise well or not, and not to mention THE MUSIC while you’re in battle, the tempo changes while you’re doing more faster or slower exercises, and did you guys know that since some of the exercises are synced to the bpm of the background music, and the boss music is slower than the regular battle music, making you feel the exercises more, and so making the boss battles way harder physically, that’s really fucking neat!
- This is gonna be a hot take but…. I LOVE RING!! I know that he says weird stuff sometimes, but he is encouraging and nice and my only personal trainer ill ever have because ring would never be a dudebro pt he’s very nice….
cons
- Since this is all solitary, and the switch peripherals aren’t perfect, there’s ways to fuck up the exercise you’re doing and it still counts it, good posture is key in exercise and if you unknowingly have bad form, you can not only not do as much as work as intended, but fuck up your back, sometimes both, so make sure to follow tipp as best as you can! Once I was doing mountain climbers and fell down and the game counted it as me doing perfect reps, lol.
- If your switch joycons are fucky (whose aren’t?) you’re gonna get interrupted a bit while working out, there’s countless times I’ve been interrupted by my left joycons batteries being super fucked up.

Lastly I wanna talk about the story a little bit since no one is really doing it, and ik talking about the story of a fitness game sound silly but it frustrates me that people just say that its an excuse for the exercise, which in technicality it is, but it so much more than that. Spoilers
The dark influence is a running thing in the game, the four masters and dragaux himself are affected by it, making them cartoonish villain versions of themselves, the dark influence is a metaphor for toxic fitness culture, no shit, but as simple as it is it really did hit hard for me.
Small trauma dump, So, I first started playing this game in 2020, I was 15 and I had always been overweight, and the game offered me some sort of way to move, I was having fun! I reached about world 16 until burnout hit me, hard, I don’t exactly remember why, probably some sort of depressive episode, and it only got worse when my father started doing remarks of me not keeping my routine, in the end I left it for about 3 full years, as now presential school had me extremely busy and I didn’t care much for my appearance at the time
That’s until we had to perform a dance in front of the school for our senior year and I started getting outright bullied for being fat, plus I had my graduation suit hand tailored and although I know that’s a great privilege, the pressure of the bullying made being measured all the time to make me even more self-conscious, so I quit the dance, and started going on a calorie deficit , I only ate up until 500 calories a day and most days even less, if I felt like I exceeded it, I forced myself to vomit, that small period was maybe the worst period in my life, in the end It all ended with my meds getting upped and I stopped myself from engaging in ed content, I went to my first college semester and everyone was way cooler about it, we weren’t teens anymore after all, I took walks from the subway station to my campus as my exercise and didn’t go up nor down ever that year, undisturbed I kept going up until this 2024 where as I organized my living room for Christmas decorations I noticed the ringcon collecting dust on one of my shelves, and new year new me, January first 20204 I picked the game back up, recalibrated and was surprised at how hard the game was now that my skill level was way up from the recalibration and I had a ton of fun, but the thing that really made me happy was seeing the characters realize their strengths and be freed from the dark influence
Long things short, the four masters are rid of the dark influence and realize that the toxic fitness culture that was ingrained into them made them over excerpt their bodies to make up for their problems, Allegra was jealous of her mentor, Armando just wanted a girlfriend, Abdonis felt alone and abandoned, and guru andma felt self-conscious of her age, and as I saw them accept their flaws and why the dark influence took over them, I saw myself in them, I was self-conscious of my weight and took weight loss to an extreme, feeling like I had to be skinny to not hate my body anymore, and now as I was taking normal steps to exercise and are in the process of booking a nutritionist that works with mentally ill people such as myself I saw myself in them as they understood their real strengths, and at the end, beating not dragaux, but his toxic mentality, and seeing he’s actually just a big softie who wanted to open up a gym but he was too afraid to be seen as too weak so he took training to a cartoonish extreme made me very emotional , and I know I get emotional over very small things but I’m not above being happy for a fictional cast of characters from a fitness game and seeing myself in them
Ring fit adventure isn’t just a silly exercise tool, it’s a simple yet great story on why we should avoid toxic fitness culture and that staying fit should be a tool to stay healthy and have fun, not to fit a standard, that’s important too.

(btw! if you read all this, thank you! im gonna reply to myself with my ending stats and gonna update it when i finish ng+ and ng++ if i remember!)