Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer

Punch, dodge, and move to the groove of 30 songs! Select an in-game personal trainer, choose how you want to train, and establish a routine that fits your schedule. Plus, you can explore new modes, such as Mitt Drills and Sit Fit Boxing, to help mix up your workouts. Whether you want to challenge yourself or keep it loose is up to you! Switch version reviewed. Review copy provided by company for testing purposes.

Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer is the ideal experience for those looking to exercise more regularly, with fun boxing gameplay and gamified mechanics that reward consistency and progress.

I’ve previously shared on Checkpoint that I’m on a fitness journey after a health scare occurred last year. While there has been improvement in my overall health, one of the suggestions that I’ve been told is to consider doing more exercise at home. Fortunately, there are video games. While many titles out there claim to promote health and fitness, Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer may have the potential to do the job right.

Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer may not actually train the player to be an effective boxer, but it is a fun way to burn some calories and get the heart rate elevated. The targets seem to accurately track the punching movement when it comes to scoring, and the routines presented in the daily challenges are varied enough that getting in some cardio doesn't feel like a chore. Due to the nature of it being a game, the calorie counter is only an approximation and there's no real feedback on whether the player is using good form in their punches. It isn't going to be as effective as a real t...

Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer gets a lot right, and it’s an addictive, well-thought-out boxing experience with a virtual workout planner that's perfect for beginners. At its best, you can tailor it to create an engaging daily workout, and even I struggled to keep up with its harder difficulty levels. However, it suffers from the same issues as many movement-based games that came before it: it’s easy to cheat yourself out of the experience based on shoddy movement controls.

I love a good gamification of fitness, and still to this day mourn the loss of Xbox Fitness. I’m also nearly in tears reading as 31-year-old me laments the challenges of ageing and potential weight gains that could some as a result; honey, this 42-year-old pandemic survivor would like a word or two.

Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer continues to push the series’ presentation and accessibility options but can’t quite overcome the inherently limited range of exercises the Joy-Con can offer it. Light and fun enough for a beginner, it's more fitness toy than fitness trainer.