Your Shape Fitness Evolved: includes MMA and other intense workouts to help you burn calories and get your heart pumping. You can challenge your friends too.

Zumba Fitness: includes more than 30 dance moves and 9 dance styles to bring some variety to your workouts. Some of these dance moves are quite intense. Supports up to 4 players.

Yourself Fitness: it gives you over 500 exercises to choose from. Not only encourages you to exercise more, it also has recipes so you can eat healthy too.

The above Xbox games are well worth trying if you want to lose weight using your gaming console. At the very least, they can warm you up!

Magellan eXplorist 710 Waterproof Hiking GPS: not a cheap hiking device by any means. But it is weatherproof and can take some abuse outdoors. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera, microphone, and speaker as well. Provides you with accurate altitude, weather, and directional info.

Garmin Dakota 20 Waterproof Hiking GPS: perfect for those of you who will be hiking in rough conditions. It can take abuse and is waterproof too. It has 850 MB of free internal memory for your maps.

DeLorme Earthmate PN-60 Portable GPS Navigator: a much more affordable rugged GPS for outdoors. It is useful for hiking and geocaching. Aerial imagery, nautical charts, and supplemental USGS and Canada topo maps are available on this unit.

Apisphere Geomate Jr. Handheld Geocaching GPS: an affordable GPS solution for those of you into geo-caching. Ge0-caching can be a whole lot of fun when you have a handy tool such as this one.

Garmin eTrex Venture HC GPS Receiver: gives you a lot of bang for your buck. It has maps of cities, rivers, lakes, interstates, and everything in between. It has an IPX7 waterproof housing, which is nice.

Those of you who intend to spend some time hiking outdoors are going to love having one of the tools with you. They can be a life saver.

Get Fit with Mel B: a cool fitness game for Playstation 3 that is compatible with the Move system. It covers various areas such as dance fitness, cardio, step and kickboxing.

EA Sports Active 2: the ultimate fitness game for Wii has just gotten better. The 2nd edition is expected to be better and more intense than the first one. It covers 70+ exercises and activities.

New U Fitness First Yoga and Pilates: want to do some Yoga at home? Fear not as you can use this cool Wii game to get a better workout at home and relax your body and mind at the same time.

Your Shape Fitness Evolved: an intense workout game that takes advantage of Microsoft Kinect to help you burn calories and get more fit with your Xbox system.

Zumba Fitness: dancing can help you burn some calories and get fit overtime. Zumba Fitness is a dance game compatible with all three major platforms.

These games may not replace the intense workout sessions that you can get at your local gym, but they can help you get your body moving and have fun with your family and friends.

Which one of the above games are you excited about the most?

Here are the top 8 games that help you lose weight with your Wii:

Gold’s Gym Dance Workout: Gold’s Gym Dance Workout is a fun workout game that involves dancing and burning calories while having fun with your Wii console. It has 30 cool songs to get you started.

EA Sports Active: EA Sports Active is a great way to get a good work out in and lose weight. You can work out alone or with friends. The 30 day program helps you get in shape fast. Helps you get fit fast.

EA Sports Active -  More Workouts: if you are ready to graduate from EA Sports Active, EA Sports Active -  More Workouts is for you. It comes with 35 all new exercises to help refresh things up.

Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout: get your own virtual home gym at home with your Wii. It’s compatible with the Nintendo Balance Board. Love the fact that automatically changes difficulty of workout based on your fitness.

My Fitness Coach: can’t afford your own fitness coach? You won’t have to with My Fitness Coach. Gives you access to almost 500 exercises for flexibility, cardio fitness, strength training. Cheap too!

Active Life Outdoor Challenge: a good fitness game for kids to get more active. If they are playing games, they may as well burn some calories in the process. With Active Life Outdoor Challenge, you get river rafting, mine-cart adventure, log jumping, see-saw, jump rope, water trampoline, and more.

We Ski: We Ski is a cool winter game for your Wii that can get you in shape in no time. It’s fun and challenging at the same time. If you live in a warm area and can’t do the real thing, We Ski is a decent alternative.

Walk It Out: Walk It Out is a fitness-based game that makes you take the steps you need to burn calorie and lose weight while having fun with your Wii.

What’s your favorite fitness game for Wii?

There are plenty of games and kits that you can pick up to get a workout in with Nintendo Wii. I admit that the workout you get with the Wii is much lighter than what you would get on a treadclimber. But for those who want to get started with their weight loss process, here are 5 cool Wii kits you should try:

Wii Fit Plus: Wii Fit Plus is the ultimate training kit for the Wii Platform. It lets you get a full workout in by using your Wii. It’s one of the most popular Wii items around.

Wii 5-In-1 Fitness Bundle:  a cool kit that lets you get the most out of your Nintendo Wii and your other Nintendo fitness games. Comes with a rechargeable battery pack, USB charging cable, jeli sleeve, fitness mat, travel bag, and 1 pair of textured foot socks.

Aerobics Step Platform for Wii Fit: if you want to get some real cardio workout in on your Nintendo WIi, this step platform comes in handy. It’s not as efficient as a stepper but gets the job done.

EA Sports Active: some have talked about EA Sports Active as Wii Fit on steroids. It does give you a heavier workout. Some people prefer Wii Fit, some do EA Active. Both are effective.

EA Sports Active Multiplayer Pack: if you plan to get a workout on your Wii, why not do it with a family member or friends. It’s always more fun when you share your Wii.

What’s your favorite Wii fitness item?