2026 Goal: Get Every Ring Fit Adventure Title

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - But first, how my Nintendo Switch is dedicated to being a Ring Fit Adventure machine.

Since I am one of millions of Nintendo fans that own a Nintendo Switch 2 (and one of... probably much less than a million that uses it primarily for playing Kirby Air Riders 2 and not much else), what should I do with my first Nintendo Switch? Should I just put it in a box and keep it under my bed to fend off the boogeyman? Well, I thought about that, until I remembered Ring Fit Adventure...

Ring Fit Adventure and Nintendo Switch 2 Compatibility

Now, Nintendo's official website declares that Ring Fit Adventure is compatible and compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2. However, Nintendo's official website also says that the Leg Strap and Ring-Con accessories are not compatible with the Switch 2's Joy-Con 2 controllers, but they are compatible with just the original Switch's Joy-Cons. You can wirelessly connect the Joy-Cons to the Switch 2 (as opposed to physically attach to the console), but you cannot recharge the Joy-Cons on the Switch 2. Methods of charging Joy-Cons include attaching them to the Nintendo Switch in its dock, and there are also dedicated Joy-Con charging station accessories that I never bought because...why would I?

In other words, you can play Ring Fit Adventure on your Nintendo Switch 2, but only as long as you use another console's controllers and another console's charging methods. Given that, the best option is to just dedicate my Nintendo Switch to Ring Fit Adventure and keep it hooked up to the big TV in the basement.

(By comparison, my Nintendo Switch 2 is hooked up to my desk monitor of my normally two-monitor desktop setup, where one of the monitors is hooked up both to my desktop computer and to my Switch 2. In case you didn't know, my first Switch was hooked up in the same way, meaning every time I played Ring Fit Adventure, I moved my Switch's dock and cables and console from my desk to my big basement TV, and then when I was done, I either moved it back to my desk, or kept it down there if I didn't anticipate that I was going to play anything else. Ask me in the comments section if you want to know more about why my set-up is this way. I privately questioned in the past why anyone would need two Nintendo Switch docks, and yet here I am.)

Okay, but why are we talking about Ring Fit Adventure?

My Ring-Con and Leg Strap have been sitting around unused for...years, since New Years 2023. And ever since I beat Adventure Mode back in March 2022, I noted in the World 69 Finalia article, and several times at that, that I've done and completed everything the game has to offer... except for getting every Title—Ring Fit Adventure's in-game achievements system. All I have to do to get the rest* of those Titles is just exercise enough times, which is something that I should be doing anyway...but haven't really been doing. And I can feel it in my body. I'm filled with more aches and pains than before... and more often! It'd be pathetic to go from being an Olympic athlete (let's ignore that I lost in round 1) to dying of acute kidney injury because of NSAID dependence. ...To clarify, at this time, I don't have an NSAID dependence and I don't take over the amount on the package on any given day. But I could get a dependence in the future if things get worse, and this is supposed to be quite preventable, at least for a long while, if I just took better care of my body by doing basic exercises and stretches. Hence, Ring Fit Adventure, which combines my need for physical activity with my gamer desires of being a completionist.

*There are a few Titles that will require me to S-rank Core Crushing (Advanced), which takes superhuman levels of effort, and that's likely not possible for me as a non-super non-human. Maybe by the end of the year if I really put enough effort?

What to expect

I'm not going to be publishing weekly Fitness Log articles. I'm just going to be updating/editing this article until the mission is accomplished. The list below is of Titles that I don't have as of publishing the article, and my progress will be tracked using this list.

I'll primarily be using Ring Fit Adventure's Custom Fitness feature to get these Titles, most of which are “do this exercise that many times.” And there are usually pretty good reasons on why I didn't max out on those exercises throughout 69 worlds of Adventure Mode, such as the Fit Skills associated with them being terrible or have an in-game effect of healing your HP, which is objectively a poor decision to do in the RPG setting where the enemies are weak and healing items are basically infinite. That's less of a concern in a Custom Fitness playlist, though.

Note that level 4 is the maximum title level for Fit Skill-based exercises, so for some of these, I'm starting at level 3 or even level 2. I'll have to prioritise those ones. The completed Titles will be given a strikethrough and the ones I'm actively working on will be given a yellow highlight. The Titles asking me to basically get every Fit Skill to a certain number of uses won't be considered actively worked on, because if I get the Titles for their constituent parts, I'll get those combined Titles too, just naturally.

I'll also be doing Multitask Mode and donating a lot of my points to people who are still playing Ring Fit Adventure on my Nintendo Switch friend list. (For some reason, the original Switch has the Trending tab on the friends list but the Nintendo Switch 2 does not. If you don't know, they use the same friend system and the profiles / friend codes are the same.) If you show up as Trending for Ring Fit Adventure, I know you're playing the game in 2026! There won't be any Multitask Mode tracking going on in this article—just assume I'm maxing out to 500 reps before playing.

The List of Ring Fit Adventure Titles I'm Trying For

??? [Chair Pose level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 2000 Chair Poses

Chair Pose count as of January 2, 2026: 1620

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Yoga; Lower Body, Core

??? [Standing Forward Fold level 2]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 300 Standing Forward Folds

Standing Forward Fold count as of January 2, 2026: 170

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Yoga; Upper Arms, Shoulders

Hardcore Fan Poser [Fan Pose level 2]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 300 Fan Poses

Fan Pose count as of January 2, 2026: 196

Date Achieved: January 17, 2026

Exercise Type: Yoga; Waist, Flexibility

??? [Fan Pose level 3]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 500 Fan Poses

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Yoga; Waist, Flexibility

??? [Planks level 2]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 500 Planks

Plank count as of January 2, 2026: 389

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Core

??? [Leg Raise level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 3000 Leg Raises

Leg Raise count as of January 2, 2026: 1713

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Core

??? [Overhead Press level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 3000 Overhead Presses

Overhead Press count as of January 2, 2026: 2509

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Arms; Upper Arms, Chest

??? [Overhead Side Bend level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 3000 Overhead Side Bends

Overhead Side Bend count as of January 2, 2026: 1238

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Stomach; Waist, Core

??? [Wide Squat level 3]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 1000 Wide Squats

Wide Squat count as of January 2, 2026: 536

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

Above-Average Overhead Squatter [Overhead Squat level 2]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 500 Overhead Squats

Overhead Squat count as of January 2, 2026: 380

Date Achieved: January 17, 2026

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

??? [Overhead Squat level 3]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 1000 Overhead Squats

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

??? [Hip Lift level 2]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 500 Hip Lifts

Hip Lift count as of January 2, 2026: 330

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

??? [Seated Forward Press level 2]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 500 Seated Forward Presses

Seated Forward Press count as of January 2, 2026: 299

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Stomach; Upper Arms, Abs

??? [Knee-to-Chest level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 3000 Knee-to-Chests

Knee-to-Chest count as of January 2, 2026: 2834

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Upper Arms

??? [Shoulder Press level 2]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 500 Shoulder Presses

Shoulder Press count as of January 2, 2026: 208

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Arms; Upper Arms, Posture

??? [Leg Scissors level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 5000 Leg Scissors

Leg Scissors count as of January 2, 2026: 4973

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Legs

??? [Flutter Kick level 3]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 2000 Flutter Kicks

Flutter Kick count as of January 2, 2026: 1971

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Legs

Threefold-Squat ??? [Three Squat types level 3]

Awarded to those who have done at least 1000 Squats, Wide Squats, and Overhead Squats

Date Achieved: N/A

Press Conference [All Presses types level 2]

Awarded to those who have done at least 300 of each of the six “Press” skills

Date Achieved: January 12, 2026

Press ??? [All Presses types level 3]

Awarded to those who have done at least 1000 of each of the six “Press” skills

Date Achieved: N/A

Arm in Arm [All Arms level 2]

Awarded to those who have done at least 300 of every arm skill

Date Achieved: January 12, 2026

Arm ??? [All Arms level 3]

Awarded to those who have done at least 1000 of every arm skill

Date Achieved: N/A

??? Legs [All Legs level 3]

Awarded to those who have done at least 1000 of every leg skill

Date Achieved: N/A

Yoga ??? [All Yoga level 2]

Awarded to those who have done at least 300 of every yoga skill

Date Achieved: N/A

???

Awarded to those who have achieved S rank on Advanced mode in the Core Crushing minigame

Core Crushing high score as of January 2, 2026: 14000

Date Achieved: N/A

???

Awarded to those who have achieved S rank on Advanced mode in all minigames

Date Achieved: N/A

Title ???

Awarded to those who have earned all other titles

Date Achieved: N/A

Title Achievement Timeline

On January 12, 2026, this article unlocked the timeline section!

January 12, 2026:

When I reached 300 Shoulder Presses, I simultaneously unlocked the Titles for doing
300 of every Press Fit Skill and 300 for doing every Arm Fit Skill.

January 17, 2026:

These are both the second-level of Title for Fan Pose and Overhead Squat, respectively.
An early win, but still far from fully complete!

Additional Commentary

January 2026 Commentary

This is my starting Custom Fitness list, focusing on my Level 2 and 3 Title needs.
I'm trying to space it out so the exercises requiring legs and squats aren't consecutive.

Will I be able to survive all of these squats and complete enough of them to clear not just the level 2 Titles, but also the level 3 and level 4 Titles that I can't even see yet? Stay tuned to this article that will be updated throughout the year.

January 4, 2026: I woke up with my hip in pain (actually, it started doing that in my sleep and I could feel that in the middle of the night), so maybe doing the squats-based exercises is a terrible idea today. I changed Overhead Squat, Wide Squat, and Hip Lift to 8 reps each (the minimum) instead of 20. The squats are actually pretty easy to do when there are only 8 of them (I could've done more), but now I remember why I've done so few Hip Lifts: it's DANGEROUS. You have to sit down, bend your legs, and hold the Ring-Con with your thighs while your arms are rested on the ground, while lifting up and down your hips. The Ring-Con is very prone to just flying out from your thighs in this position. I've complained about this every time whenever I have had to Hip Lift for this game, which is for many Fitness Gyms in Adventure Mode. In any case, I only exercised for, like, 6 minutes in-game time, but my hips actually feel better in real life. I gotta go back to 20 reps or I'll never get the Title by the end of the year. (I'm going to feel anxiety with every Hip Lift, though.)

January 6, 2026: There is a massive difference between doing 8 Overhead Squats plus 8 Wide Squats per routine and doing 20 Overhead Squats plus 20 Wide Squats per routine. Sheesh. The game rates my squat posture as pretty bad, and it's probably correct. Maybe 16 (or even 12) reps is better for now instead of 20... so I can get used to it better... If I assume I exercise 4 times per week for 51 weeks and my end goal is 3,000 (surely level 4 squat completion isn't 5,000, right?), then I need an average of 14.7 reps per session. (Goal/[times per week*number of weeks]) That means to complete by the end of the year, I should set my level to 16 reps for Overhead Squat and Wide Squat, and 20 is unnecessary... assuming that I'm very diligent about this. If it's 3 times per week, then I need to do 19.6 reps per session! The good news is that Shoulder Press is quite relaxing and an easy way to end the session, and Standing Forward Fold is an easy enough way to begin. ...The bad news is that I still need to fit Planks into this.

January 10, 2026: I need to correct myself from before: There is no 12 rep option for Overhead and Wide Squat. It goes 8, 10, 14, 16, and 20. I'll try 10 for them today. (Same option for Planks... which I'm putting in my routine now at 8, after Hip Lift and before Shoulder Press.) I really did end up quite sore for the whole rest of the week after January 6.
Besides the incident where my Ring-Con actually did fly out from my thighs in Hip Lift (which makes Planks going after that nice because you don't use the Ring-Con at all then, so it can safely be on the ground), I quickly became suspicious: the squats felt a lot easier at 10 reps on a per squat level. I have a theory that I want to prove out with data and testing. For the following, I made a Custom Fitness list of 8, 10, 14, 16, and 20 Overhead Squats, and I timed how long one rep took with a stopwatch. (Stopwatch in one claw and the Ring-Con in my other claw.) Here are my results:

At 8 reps, they make you hold the squat for somewhere between 1 and 1.5 seconds.
At 10 reps, they make you hold the squat for 1.5 and 2 seconds.
At 14 reps, the squat is held for 2 to 2.5 seconds.
The 18 reps Squats make you hold it for 2.5 to 3 seconds.
And at 20 reps, you hold the squat for 3 to 3.5 seconds per squat.

I already knew that the impact of Adventure Mode's difficulty level made you not only have more reps per Fit Skill, but each individual rep of your Fit Skill has to be held for longer. I did not know that increasing the rep count in Custom Fitness had the same effect. This makes the count as rigged as a Nicholas Maduro election—not every rep is considered equal. Instead of having one 20-rep Overhead or Wide Squat, I can have two consecutive 10-reps Overhead or Wide Squats on my Custom Fitness list—those are considered the same number of reps for the purposes of achieving the Title goal, but one of those methods is at about half of the real-life effort and physical exertion versus the other. I'd much rather do the saner option so I don't end up sore for several days whenever I play this game, but I'm curious what my audience thinks.

January 12, 2026: My routine now looks like this:

Unfun fact: I cannot add additional items to the Fitness List. It caps out at TEN items.
Compared to the image above, notice how Overhead Squat and Wide Squat are divided into 10 reps, twice.
And Planks exist.

Something I gotta work on is not bending my arms as I'm doing the squat part of the Overhead Squat. You're supposed to keep them extended and above you the whole time. Anyway, despite 10 x 2 being easier than 20 x 1, doing all of those squats is still tough. But the real challenge of January 12 was the Hip Lift. I got nothing but issues with it, as seen below. In better news, I got my first Titles of 2026: Press Conference and Arm in Arm! That means that my Shoulder Presses have surpassed 300.

Gosh, I don't know if I'll be able to make it to the end of 2026 without my Ring-Con smashing into something from a failed Hip Lift. I spent several minutes trying to adjust it on my thighs and I still failed.

January 14, 2026: At some point, I won't be updating this blog every time I play Ring Fit Adventure. But for now, two observations. One, I finally got a perfect score in Custom Fitness for Wide Squatting at any number of repetitions.

Ring Fit Adventure will score each rep from 0 to 100, and then give you an average score at the end for that exercise.
This is the first time I ever got 100 points on each Wide Squat. In this case, out of 10 Wide Squats.
This is valued at the same amount as 100 points across 20 Wide Squats (it's actually worth diddly-squat, but that's not a recognised Fit Skill).

And two, THE SAFETY OF MY RING-CON, I've decided I'll just cheat in Hip Lift from now on. Rather than put the Ring-Con between my thighs, I'll just... set it down flat on the floor after the game completes its positioning check. Ring Fit Adventure does not check how much the Ring-Con is being squeezed or even its positioning while Hip Lift is being done. It's doing all of its monitoring on the Joy-Con contained in the Leg Strap. This allows me to do actual Hip Lifts as nature intended—without worrying about my accessories flying away. It's still just as much physical exertion as what you're supposed to be doing, but without the danger. I see no reason to not do this for every future Hip Lift I ever do.

For the first time since we started, I don't feel in pain before or after doing the whole custom list of activity. Let's do that for the rest of the month and keep it that way, and then maybe I can up the intensity. Since I won't up the squat intensity, that only really leaves Planks. I'm gonna have to do more than 10 Planks per session if I'll want to get the level 4 Planks Title anyway. Planks and Squats are the most difficult Fit Skills on the list, though.

January 17, 2026: Correction to my last update: I can increase the reps for Fan Pose from 20 (second-to-max) to 28 (max). I'm not gonna do that at this time, but it's something I can do to increase the intensity besides more Planks. Either way, this workout felt more intense than the one on the 14th—the difference being I put more optimisation into my form, including keeping the Ring-Con during Seated Forward Press at basically arm's length, meaning it's farther away from my core than it might've been before. That activates the muscles more than when it's closer by. I also got a perfect 100 score on Hip Lifts with the Ring-Con-less method I described above, but the screenshot would look exactly the same as the one for Wide Squats because it's not like they give the name of the Fit Skill in the screenshot...

Besides that bit, I bring GOOD NEWS on achieving Titles! I unlocked both Hardcore Fan Poser and Above-Average Overhead Squatter today! Scroll up to the above parts of the article to the Titles list to see what's next, and to the timeline section for a screenshot.

January 18, 2026: I changed Fan Pose's reps from 20 to 28. It went well enough. I'm not fully convinced that I've been doing Fan Pose correctly at any point in time in the last six years, though. I don't think my body can even do what's portrayed on screen, so I'm doing a wimpy inflexible version instead.


Ludwig was going to have the publish date of this article be on New Years Day, but then he decided to delay it to January 2 so it could be published on a Friday, in order to maintain KoopaTV's Fitness Fridays publishing schedule. Please return to this article periodically and give Ludwig a hard time in the comments section if he isn't giving regular updates. There isn't a way to get a notification when the article gets updated, so just make a habit of returning, just like Ludwig will make a habit of doing a bunch of squats often.