{"id":21654,"date":"2021-10-22T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21654"},"modified":"2021-10-06T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:50:00","slug":"knockout-home-fitness-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/22\/knockout-home-fitness-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Knockout Home Fitness (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/knock_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-21634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KNOCK_BOX-94x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KNOCK_BOX-94x150.png 94w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KNOCK_BOX-188x300.png 188w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KNOCK_BOX.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 94px) 100vw, 94px\" \/><\/a>With candy and food holidays coming up like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, it may be a good time to beef up your fitness routine.\u00a0 Maybe with a video game?\u00a0 This exercise game takes many cues from Nintendo\u2019s own Fitness Boxing series and adds martial arts moves, kicks, and stances into the mix.\u00a0 Choose a virtual trainer and do daily routines once per day, or try exercises that are around 3 minutes in length anytime you want.\u00a0 You can also track your progress on the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>To play, you\u2019ll hold a JoyCon in each hand and time your punches, blocks, and other moves to the beat of the music.\u00a0 A meter on the bottom screen will tell you when to do certain moves and which hand to do them with.\u00a0 Try to stay with the beat and not miss to get a better score.\u00a0 After two or three of these workouts and you\u2019ll be done for the day, but you can also do unlocked workouts any time you want, and view your progress and edit stats.<\/p>\n<p>This game is really just a lesser version of Fitness Boxing.\u00a0 You have four trainers and four studios to choose from, with some needed to be unlocked by playing.\u00a0 The music is just generic techno.\u00a0 The game adds kicks as well as punches, but since you don\u2019t have a leg strap or anything they just automatically give those to you as hits when you play.\u00a0 My main problem with this game is that the icons for the moves are on the bottom of the screen, with both left and right moves in the same place with text instead of pictures to tell you what to do.\u00a0 And it can be hard to distinguish that in the heat of things.\u00a0 Fitness Boxing did it better by having the icons be picture cues on the left and right sides of the screen.\u00a0 Knockout Home Fitness is still fine for what it is, but if you want a REALLY good fitness game, I say get Ring Fit Adventures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/knock_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21635\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KNOCK_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KNOCK_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KNOCK_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/KNOCK_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing violent or objectionable here, although reading skill is helpful for some of the text.\u00a0 Knockout Home Fitness is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With candy and food holidays coming up like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, it may be a good time to beef up your fitness routine.\u00a0 Maybe with a video game?\u00a0 This exercise game takes many cues from Nintendo\u2019s own Fitness Boxing series and adds martial arts moves, kicks, and stances into the mix.\u00a0 Choose a virtual 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