{"id":12971,"date":"2015-01-05T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12971"},"modified":"2014-12-25T17:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T17:44:54","slug":"fitstar-yoga-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/fitstar-yoga-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"FitStar Yoga (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YOGA_BOX\"<\/a>Start your New Year fitness goals off right with FitStar.\u00a0 It\u2019s a free-to-play fitness app for iPad that provides workout videos and charts your progress.\u00a0 I reviewed the original game about a year and a half ago<\/strong><\/a>, and now they have a version of it with Yoga exercises and poses.\u00a0 Find out if it\u2019s worth paying money to subscribe to in this review.<\/p>\n

FitStar Yoga is free to download, and right now for a limited time they are offering one of their freestyle programs, Easy Flow, for free as well.\u00a0 But in order to experience the full game, you\u2019ll need to pay money to subscribe to Premium.\u00a0 This review is based on the Premium edition.<\/p>\n

One thing to note is that in order to play, you will need to provide an email address.\u00a0 Luckily you have the option to turn off notifications in the game.\u00a0 Once you provide that and take a short test, you\u2019ll be able to start.\u00a0 The game will give you one Yoga workout at a time to select that is usually about 20 to 30 minutes.\u00a0 In the videos, you\u2019ll be able to see real life people doing the Yoga poses and there is a timer to show you how long to hold the pose.\u00a0 The instructor will give you tips and instructions, too.\u00a0 Once you finish a workout, you can see how many calories you\u2019ve burned and you can even earn in-game badges.\u00a0 The Premium program also lets you select Freestyle workouts with specific themes like morning stretches, before bedtime Yoga, and strength training poses.\u00a0 Although I honestly didn\u2019t notice much difference between them.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t really need any extra equipment to play, just your iPad or iPhone.\u00a0 The people in the videos use Yoga mats and Yoga blocks sometimes, though.\u00a0 There are a few little problems here and there, however.\u00a0 The transitions from pose to pose sometimes go by a little too quickly and they oftentimes don\u2019t explain the poses very well.\u00a0 It helps to have a small prior knowledge of Yoga.\u00a0 Also I think this game is best suited for iPad, as I don\u2019t see how you could see things on the small iPhone screen.\u00a0 But I guess it is good to have workout videos wherever you go.\u00a0 And finally, for certain exercises you can tap to select if it is too easy, just right, or too hard.\u00a0 They\u2019re supposed to change the program based on what you select, but I really didn\u2019t notice any difference.\u00a0 Plus they\u2019ll go ahead and put in really hard poses, like standing on one foot while the rest of your body is parallel to the ground, or making you stand on your hands with your knees leaning into your elbows.\u00a0 But other than that, I think Yoga fans could get a lot of use out of this program.<\/p>\n

\"YOGA_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Parental supervision is recommended when starting up, as you have to put in an email and other info.\u00a0 Reading skill isn\u2019t needed, but I think it would be a great idea for parents and kids to use the program to exercise together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Start your New Year fitness goals off right with FitStar.\u00a0 It\u2019s a free-to-play fitness app for iPad that provides workout videos and charts your progress.\u00a0 I reviewed the original game about a year and a half ago, and now they have a version of it with Yoga exercises and poses.\u00a0 Find out if it\u2019s worth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12974,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions\/12974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}