On November 1, Nintendo will jump back into the fitness gaming category it helped create with Wii Fit U. Later this year, Microsoft could be throwing its hat into the hoop with an identical app for Xbox One.

On Friday, Microsoft announced a brand new Xbox One app called Xbox Fitness a good way to be launching this holiday season. Unlike Nintendo’s game that utilizes a virtual trainer and the Wii balance board, Xbox Fitness will use real trainers alongside Kinect to assist people get into shape.

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“What makes Xbox Fitness so innovative is the feedback it can provide,” says Insanity’s Shaun T. “The Kinect sensor can evaluate your form, tell how high you’re jumping, how hard you’re punching or even read your heart rate. It’s that little missing piece of validation that hasn’t been possible for home fitness products before. Xbox Fitness completes the puzzle.”

Alongside its exercise programs, Xbox Fitness acts as an individual trainer. This will create personalized workout programs for every user in response to their history and past performance. This will also accommodate any schedule with workouts that last anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes.

Xbox Fitness can even include Xbox Live integration within the variety of online challenges, leaderboards and other methods that you can compare your performance with that of your pals.

Speaking of Xbox Live, Xbox Fitness might be free to all Xbox Live Gold members until December 2014. Microsoft doesn’t explicitly say it should start charging separately for the service at that time, but it’s heavily implied. Meaning you’ll desire to take full benefit of Xbox Fitness when it launches this holiday season.

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