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Personal Trainer for Everyone, Yourself!Fitness, Goes Portable

Posted on: Friday, 17 December 2004, 12:00 CST

Personal Computer version of popular virtual personal trainer allows users to exercise anywhere and at anytime

Looking for a gift of health this holiday season, then look no further than your game console or personal computer. "Yourself!Fitness," the world's first virtual personal fitness trainer, will make its PC debut on retail shelves December 18, just in time for Christmas.

Business travelers, busy professionals, working parents and time-constrained men and women all over the world can now take their personal trainer with them when wherever they go. The PC version of Yourself!Fitness gives computer users the flexibility and freedom to workout anywhere and at anytime.

"For the first-time ever, we are able to bring a personalized, interactive fitness tool in a briefcase, handbag or backpack with us wherever we travel," said Ted Spooner, co-founder and CEO of Yourself!Fitness publisher, Portland-based responDESIGN. "For the cost of a dinner out at a nice restaurant, anyone can have their own personal trainer on call 24 hours a day."

Yourself!Fitness is an innovative combination of existing technology and the current body of knowledge surrounding physical fitness creating a new home fitness category: Interactive Home Fitness with a Virtual Personal Trainer. The content is dynamic and fully interactive with a complete fitness analysis, personalized goal setting, customized meal planner, fitness calendar, multiple workout environments, multiple music options, over 200 health and fitness tips from Prevention Magazine, and a responsive trainer. responDESIGN has defined the concept of "Fitness Gaming" as a system of motivations and rewards built into Yourself!Fitness which helps users achieve their personal health and fitness goals.

The current list of retailers carrying Yourself!Fitness includes: Nordstrom, Best Buy, Best Buy Canada, Brandsmart, Circuit City, CompUSA, EB Canada, Electronics Boutique, Fry's, Gamecrazy, Gamestop, Hastings, Kmart, Meijer, Target.com, and Toys R Us. Customers are also able to purchase the game online (www.yourselffitness.com), as well as sign up for newsletters, promotions and tips from Maya, the Yourself!Fitness personal trainer.

Yourself!Fitness represents an evolution in home fitness moving beyond one-dimensional fitness videos and self-help books as it is truly personalized and fully interactive. It represents a revolution in the game industry as it is focused on promoting an active lifestyle. For more information about Yourself!Fitness please go to www.yourself!fitness.com.

About responDESIGN

Founded in 2003 by Ted Spooner and Phin Barnes, responDESIGN is a privately held corporation based in Portland, Oregon. responDESIGN's mission is to unlock the power of the game console by building "Games That Are Good For You." For more information please go to www.responDESIGN.com.

Source: Business Wire

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