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...

Article Table of Contents

Ring Fit Adventure and Nintendo Switch 2 Compatibility
Okay, but why are we talking about Ring Fit Adventure?
What to expect
The List of Ring Fit Adventure Titles I'm Trying For
Title Achievement Timeline
Additional Commentary
     January 2026 Commentary
     February 2026 Commentary
     March 2026 Commentary
     April 2026 Commentary
     May 2026 Commentary
     Comments Section

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.)

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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?

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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. As of April 11, 2026, every Title is either completed or actively being worked on. 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.

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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

Forward-Fold Journeyman [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: January 22, 2026

Exercise Type: Yoga; Upper Arms, Shoulders

Forward-Fold Scholar [Standing Forward Fold level 3]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 500 Standing Forward Folds

Date Achieved: February 21, 2026

Exercise Type: Yoga; Upper Arms, Shoulders

Forward-Fold ??? [Standing Forward Fold level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 2000 Standing Forward Folds

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

Lifelong Fan Poser [Fan Pose level 3]

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

Date Achieved: February 2, 2026

Exercise Type: Yoga; Waist, Flexibility

No. 1 Fan Poser [Fan Pose level 4]

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

Date Achieved: May 17, 2026

Exercise Type: Yoga; Waist, Flexibility

Extremely into Planking [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: February 4, 2026

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Core

Unnervingly into Planking [Planks level 3]

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

Date Achieved: April 9, 2026

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Core

??? into Planking [Planks level 4]

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

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

Extra Wide Squatter [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: February 25, 2026/dd>

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

??? Wide Squatter [Wide Squat level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 3000 Wide Squats

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

Impeccable Overhead Squatter [Overhead Squat level 3]

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

Date Achieved: March 7, 2026

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

??? Overhead Squatter [Overhead Squat level 4]

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

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

Trained Hip Lifter [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: January 24, 2026

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

Seasoned Hip Lifter [Hip Lift level 3]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 1000 Hip Lifts

Date Achieved: March 12, 2026

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

??? Hip Lifter [Hip Lift level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 3000 Hip Lifts

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Legs; Glutes

Seated-Forward-Press Graduate [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: January 31, 2026

Exercise Type: Stomach; Upper Arms, Abs

Seated-Forward-Press Professor [Seated Forward Press level 3]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 1000 Seated Forward Presses

Date Achieved: March 14, 2026

Exercise Type: Stomach; Upper Arms, Abs

Seated-Forward-Press ??? [Seated Forward Press level 4]

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

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Stomach; Upper Arms, Abs

Beloved by Knee-to-Chest [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: May 7, 2026

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Upper Arms

Shoulder-Press Powerhouse [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: January 31, 2026

Exercise Type: Arms; Upper Arms, Posture

Shoulder-Press Bulldozer [Shoulder Press level 3]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 1000 Shoulder Presses

Date Achieved: March 3, 2026

Exercise Type: Arms; Upper Arms, Posture

Shoulder-Press ??? [Shoulder Press level 4]

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

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Arms; Upper Arms, Posture

Razor-Sharp Leg Scissors [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: April 11, 2026

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Legs

Pretty Good Flutter Kicker [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: April 11, 2026

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Legs

??? Flutter Kicker [Flutter Kick level 4]

Awarded to those who have done a total of at least 5000 Flutter Kicks

Date Achieved: N/A

Exercise Type: Stomach; Abs, Legs

Threefold-Squat Luminary [Three Squat types level 3]

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

Date Achieved: March 7, 2026

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

All Press is Good Press [All Presses types level 3]

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

Date Achieved: March 14, 2026

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

Armed and Ready [All Arms level 3]

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

Date Achieved: March 3, 2026

Legs That Won't Quit [All Legs level 3]

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

Date Achieved: March 12, 2026

Yoga Contortionist [All Yoga level 2]

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

Date Achieved: January 22, 2026

Yoga Eminence [All Yoga level 3]

Awarded to those who have done at least 500 of every yoga skill

Date Achieved: February 21, 2026

???

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

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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!

January 22, 2026:

I hit 300 Standing Forward Folds on January 22, 2026.
This also got me the Title for doing 300 reps on every Yoga Fit Skill, the Yoga Contortionist.

January 24, 2026:

Hip Lift reps brought to you by cheating.
Put the Ring-Con between your thighs in the set-up screen, and then place it on the floor and do normal Hip Lifts like you'd do at the gym.
Ring Fit Adventure will not check the Ring-Con at all, so your hardware will be safe and not fly out of your thighs.
You still get the workout.

January 31, 2026:

500 Presses for both Shoulder Press and Seated Forward Press!
I now have 238 total Titles.

February 2, 2026:

I've been posing as a fan my whole life, but I actually don't like a lot of things.

February 4, 2026:

500 Planks complete. ...Many more to go...

February 21, 2026:

I'm a Yoga user of high social esteem and high education. Sounds about right. 
And yet, I'm not done. Not even close. (Well, the Yoga __ Titles are, in fact, done.)

February 25, 2026:

Ugh, this means I gotta do another 2,000 Wide Squats this year...?
By the end of February, I had 243 Titles.

March 3, 2026:

My Title is Bulldozer? That's awesome.
Plus, I love being armed and ready.

March 7, 2026:

Luminary? I like the sound of that. Makes me think of Dragon Quest XI.

March 12, 2026:

Hip Lift was my most lagging Leg Fit Skill. But now I've done all of them at least 1,000 times.

March 14, 2026:

There is still the pressing matter of the last-tier Titles for the Press Fit Skills: Overhead Press, Seated Forward Press, and Shoulder Press.
By the end of March 2026, I had 251 Titles.

April 9, 2026:

Anyone around me won't be eating berries while I'm Planking.

April 11, 2026:

I DO have claws at the end of my legs.
Maybe if I wasn't sitting on clouds or clown cars, I could slash at Mario with my feet.

What if I used Flutter Kicks to kick at Mario (with the claws on my feet) as an offensive technique,
rather than just as a way to extend my jump?
By the end of April 2026, I had 254 Titles.

May 7, 2026:

It took a lot of effort to get this screenshot here. It's nice that Knee-to-Chest loves me, since I don't love it back.

May 17, 2026:

I am the greatest poser of being a fan of things!

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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.

January 21, 2026: I uneventfully went through my Custom Fitness list this day.

January 22, 2026: I thought this would also be a filler day like yesterday, BUT no, I got TWO new Titles today: Forward-Fold Journeyman and Yoga Contortionist. I have no issues doing these Standing Forward Folds, and I look forward to more folding. I also read Contortionist as Contortoise, like a conman tortoise. ...Which would be me, I guess.

January 24, 2026: I did my Custom Fitness List today. ...I'm warning you now that it's unlikely I'm going to get much Ring Fit Adventure in next week, though. At least I can go out on a high note: I'm a Trained Hip Lifter, now! (Timeline / Titles List updated.) This is very important to me, as someone who considers the Hip Lift to be my mortal enemy because of how dangerous it can be.

January 31, 2026: “Hey, Ludwig, did you give up on your New Years Resolution before the first month even ended?“ N-No... I said I won't get Ring Fit Adventure in this week, and that's because of my lack of presence in my own castle. Can't play my Switch when I'm not in the same building as my Switch! Besides that, I did at least do some Multitask Modes. People complain about the long enemy phases in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (now available on Nintendo Classics, although I was playing today on my actual Nintendo GameCube), but you can easily get in 500 reps of Multitask Mode in a single chapter during the (map) animations.

You may wonder how my body took the Custom Fitness routine after a week of inactivity (at least, as tracked by Ring Fit Adventure—I wasn't sedated during my week away from my castle). It... wasn't as bad as I was expected, but I could also tell I wasn't at peak performance from how I was panting more than expected after the Seated Forward Presses. But... that was well worth it, because I became a Seated-Forward-Press Graduate! At the same time, I got the Shoulder-Press Powerhouse Title, too. The Timeline and Titles list got updated with this information, but that's not all. As we enter into February, the article itself got a big enhancement: a table of contents at the top of the page!

You'll notice this aligns perfectly with the article up to this point.
Except for January 1 and January 2. Those days I was on Ring Fit Adventure but not working out.
(I was working on this article for its publish date of January 2, after all, and had a lot of info to copy over for the Titles list section!)

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February 2026 Commentary

February 1, 2026: That's right, it's a new month. Still, I'll be playing the same routine that I ended January 2026 with. My unofficial goal by the end of the month is to figure out what I'm going to do with Planks. Either increase them from 10 Planks to 14 Planks (which isn't just plus four reps, but each of those reps will individually become more difficulty, too, per the breakdown from January 10), or do what I'm doing with the Squats and have two Planks exercises on my Custom List. However, since the list can only have ten exercises, that means I'd have to chop something off... and that's hard to commit to, since everything on the list are things that I still need to complete. I wouldn't be surprised (and neither should you) if this eventually becomes a 2026 to 2027 goal. ...I suppose I could also just have two different lists. Would I do both in one day, or would I alternate between them?

This sort of thing is what keeps me up at night—and that's not a joke or an exaggeration (it's happened more than once in the past month). You'd think that I wouldn't think that way about KoopaTV given that the site officially ended over two and a half years ago, and yet... Ah, but I digress. I completed my workout today and unlocked nothing.

February 2, 2026: I completed my workout today and unlocked something: the Lifelong Fan Poser Title! I updated the Timeline. I also added a photo of the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app's play history for January 2026 up above, at the end of the January 2026 Commentary.

With regards to Fan Poser, this marks the first time I've unlocked two Titles of the same Fit Skill line in this article, but it shows how ridiculous the progression is. 100 (level 1) to 300 (level 2) to 500 (level 3) to 2000 (level 4, final). That's quite a big jump there! So despite it looking like I have 3/4s of the Titles dedicated to the Fan Pose, I am, in fact, only 1/4 of the way to completing Fan Pose reps and being recognised for it. You could say I'm not a fan of that.

February 4, 2026: I'm pretty stressed out today. Did going through my Custom Fitness list calm me down a bit? ...not really, especially because my workout was interrupted by what was stressing me out. I did get the Extremely Into Planking Title, though, and updated this article accordingly! Since the next goal (level 3) is 1000 lifetime Plank reps (double the 500 of level 2), that means I'd need to do 50 more days at 10 Planks per day to hit that... and then likely far more Planks to get the final level 4. 10 Planks a day won't get me there if I want to finish by the end of 2026 (which might've been a fool's errand to begin with), but how should I go about doing more...?

To break up the text a bit, here's my cultural plank reference of Chef Gordon Ramsay calling executive chef Chris a plank:

February 5, 2026: In honour of me slipping in a Hell's Kitchen reference yesterday, I decided to up my workout to 14 reps for Plank and see what happens. Leading up to that great moment, I gotta admit, I'm pretty unfocused and out-of-the-moment on my workout. But then I got to Planks... and that got me very focused. Ring exclaiming, “YOU MADE IT!” at the end felt particularly impactful. Several times I had to stop and pant, stomach-down on the floor, before continuing. Whew, that's a workout. But at least I know... it's doable. (And Shoulder Presses were a good way to end it.) So I'll stick with this change going forward!

My Custom Fitness List starting February 5, 2026. Note the 14 Plank reps.

February 8, 2026: Due to some... logistical challenges, I didn't get to do this yesterday (the 7th) like I wanted. As a result, I'm very energetic and enthusiastic and focused on completing my workout efficiently today. I powered through everything up until my 9th or 10th plank in the 14-rep Planks where I had to just lay flat on the floor. But I managed to get through it! Still, that's why I'm not in the 2026 Winter Olympics. Or the Super Bowl (not that that was ever a possibility). I'm not watching either of those things.

February 9, 2026: I have one unique peculiarity I'd like to point out: While I was doing the Planks (not the logs), it counted me resting my legs down as a rep worth 5 points out of 100. If it was gonna be such a trash rep, maybe Ring Fit Adventure shouldn't count it as an attempt at a rep. ALSO! For the past five years, I've had the Ring-Con vibration setting set to Weak. I'm going to try setting it to None for the next workout, just because I suddenly noticed the vibrating is irritating to listen to when doing Shoulder Press. In that position, the Ring-Con is on my shoulder and right next to my ears and weakly vibrating every rep. It's like an insect or something.

I'm unfamiliar with the Assist modes.
Maybe I need to experiment with those at some point for KoopaTV so I can say we have the MOST comprehensive coverage.

February 11, 2026: Zero vibration sucks. I'm going back to Weak. Yoga Fit Skills like Standing Forward Fold and Fan Pose feels like those have no “oomph” when the Ring-Con doesn't vibrate—when vibration is on, the Ring-Con will vibrate alongside your slow, thoughtful movement arc. Without vibration, your movements feel unguided and without purpose. Seated Forward Press with vibration makes me feel like I'm pressing through a fair bit of resistance on the Ring-Con. With no vibration, my suspension of disbelief breaks, and it feels much more boring. Shoulder Press feels better. Marginally. But having vibration is better, so after this, I returned it to Weak.

February 15, 2026: Oh, gosh, we're already over halfway through February. Time is passing by too fast, and I feel like I can't move fast enough to keep up. By the way, for your information, you can't change the vibration settings (or any other setting) mid-workout. The settings menu is only accessible when you're outside of a workout.

February 19, 2026: Ludwig: Time is passing too fast and I can't keep up.
Also Ludwig: Disappears for, like, four days.

So... listen, I've been busy. To the point of exhaustion. All the weekdays so far. I don't have the time or physical condition to exercise. Mostly the physical condition part. Anyway, I got through this day.

February 20, 2026: I got to 12 planks of 14 before having to briefly pause. That's probably progress.

February 21, 2026: Last night, before going to sleep, I took a Cyclobenzaprine (muscle relaxant 5 mg pill... I have a prescription for it to take on an as-needed basis). I've been feeling very drowsy ever since for the whole day after, besides waking up late. It's the first time I've taken it in all 2026! Will I be able to get through my workout, like, 21 hours later?

It started out tough, but the Custom Fitness List got easier as I went through it. In fact, I powered through all 14 Planks reps without taking an extra pause! My hard work paid off, and I got two new Titles today: Forward-Fold Scholar and Yoga Eminence. Yoga Eminence is the peak of doing all Yoga Fit Skills at least 500 times... while Forward-Fold Scholar is just the top of the glacier to max out on Standing Forward-Fold. 1500 to go... If I do 16 a day, that'd be about 94 days until I get the final Title. That should be... 30 weeks from now? In September? I'm in this for the long haul.

February 22, 2026: I went through my list without much incident. I was sweating a lot today, though... and didn't go through the Planks with the same gusto as yesterday. Still a lot to work on.

February 24, 2026: I gotta exercise off the twin foolishness of today's Nintendo Treehouse Live plus the State of the Union address (neither of which KoopaTV would or will live react to, because those ended when the site formally did—if you're confused, this was written after Treehouse Live but before the State of the Union address). My back hurt a bit going into this, but I still managed. I do wanna see my chiropractor for the first time this calendar year...and soon. I haven't made an appointment yet, though! Maybe instead of hours of President Donald John Trump ranting and weaving through different topics with dubious veracity, he should be doing squats and planks and hip lifts. That'd be more entertaining. (It also sounds more entertaining than you reading about me doing those things. What are you doing here?)

February 25, 2026: President Donald John Trump can run his mouth for an hour and forty-eight minutes (though I guess he was constantly interrupted by applause), but can he run laps in Ring Fit Adventure? ...I dunno, go ask him. Can I run laps in Ring Fit Adventure? Probably, but it's not in my Custom Fitness routine. (Jogging through courses COULD be in my list, but it won't help me achieve any Titles I'm missing, so... it's hard to justify it.) In non-filler-text news, I got the Title for level 3 of Wide Squat, the Extra Wide Squatter Title. That means I've done 1,000 of these total. To complete the Wide Squat Titles, I must achieve 3,000 cumulative Wide Squats. That's... frightening to think about.

February 28, 2026: Okay, okay, sorry, Mister President Donald John Trump! Don't get mad! He ran many missiles, or as he'd say it, “I ran many miles.” He's very fit. I must aspire to match him. ...Please don't bomb Koopa Kingdom and assassinate King Bowser Koopa. I think what I wrote pissed him off and he killed off Iran's Ayatollah Khameini as a result. Very scary. What is also scary is that on the 26th and 27th, I had these unexplained pains in my left hip or waist that prevented me from working out... or really walking. I felt better today (though I still have some kind of pain around my right knee) so I went through my last workout for February 2026. By popular demand in my comments section, here are the cumulative totals for the Fit Skills that are on my current Custom Fitness list:

...Uh oh, what if they want this in text form?
What if they want all of the numbers, not just the Fit Skills I was just working on?

I'm hoping not to have any more three-day (or bigger) gaps in March. That's the goal!

Jump back to the top!

March 2026 Commentary

March 1, 2026: A question to consider this month: Should I keep my Wide Squats and Overhead Squats the same, or should I increase their required rep count? In good news, I wasn't in any pain while exercising today. In bad news, that's probably because I took a naproxen earlier today, though not for any reason about my body. My jaw was in pain when I got up, and that's what my naproxen is actually prescribed for. ...Anyway, I energetically got through my reps, including the 14 Planks! Also, happy March.

March 2, 2026: Happy March, blessed Ramadan, and merry Purim! Plus... lukewarm workout! Ah, and it'll be a full moon, right when The Pokémon Company International uploads Crazy as a Lunatone, an anime episode about Lunatone's power being restored by the full moon. ...But, anyway, the workout was fine. Just fine. Nothing special.

March 3, 2026: I was less energetic and motivated today than the prior day, but I did get two cool Titles! Shoulder-Press Bulldozer and Armed and Ready. Two very cool names. So I'm motivated to keep going!

March 5, 2026: I opened Adventure Mode to collect my Multitask Mode reps and bonuses. They like celebrating my Shoulder-Press Bulldozer, which, again, is a very cool name. (As a firearms advocate, so is Armed and Ready.) That's all I got to say. There's no way I'm gonna be able to write unique things for another ten months. Well, unless I change my routine...

There is a whole animation where the Ring Fit Trainer just dances across the screen, grabbing pink confetti from his invisible Ring Basket and tossing it everywhere.
It definitely is a very encouraging congratulations.

March 7, 2026: Today, Ring Fit Adventure outright told me to work up a sweat. And so... I did. It's the same routine as I've been doing, but I just feel sweatier and my body temperature feels hotter. I don't know if this is a good thing or not. I took a bit of a break after Seated Forward Press and Hip Lift to take several breaths and refill my water bottle. (And then drink out of that water bottle, 'cause the refill without the drink is pretty useless. Some people—I have no examples to name, but surely there's at least more than one person—don't recognise that.) Nonetheless, I was almost breathless after completing the 14 Plank reps.

For my efforts, I acquired two Titles: Impeccable Overhead Squatter and Threefold-Squat Luminary! I've updated the Title List and Timeline accordingly.

March 8, 2026: Today, my general livelihood and energy is severely nerfed because of Daylight Saving Time. You're here to read about my fitness, not my political rants, but Daylight Saving Time is government-created misery in an attempt to distort the flow of time. Much like how Koopa Kingdom has pegged our currency to the Mushroom Kingdom for disastrous results, KoopaTV has pegged our time to the United States of America for disastrous results. I didn't mention it in the article about why KoopaTV stopped production, but severing that foolish Daylight Saving Time connection was a major personal benefit to ending KoopaTV. And yet... thanks to this New Years Resolution, we're back to this awful situation. I didn't think about this back at the beginning of January 2026 or the end of December 2025. Perhaps I should have...

Anyway, I still completed my routine for today. With some difficulty.

Did I get 69 points because of Daylight Saving Time, or did I get 69 points because the Joy-Con in my Leg Strap was miscalibrated?
Perhaps both.

March 10, 2026: There was no way I had the energy to work out yesterday. I collapsed in bed not long into the day. Waking up in darkness stinks, and while the clock claims it's the same time you usually wake up, it's really an hour before. Very bad for your health. Today is also bad for my health, not only because Daylight Saving Time continues to be horrible, but also because MAR10 (so-called “Mario Day”) is a big celebration of my enemy who actively makes my health worse by stomping on my head. My two choices are... cower in my shell, or try to improve my health by working out. I worked out! I also had a lot of nervous energy to let out. Nothing new unlocked, but it was a good fitness day.

I'm also thinking that soon I should probably make two different lists and do both. I was thinking when I complete the Title for the third level of Plank, that's when I'll do that. This list would incorporate the remaining Fit Skills I need to work on. In the meantime, here's what the game suggested me for MAR10:

Mushrooms are... a controversial food in Koopa Kingdom.

March 11, 2026: I don't have any lengthy rants this time. March 11 isn't associated with any terrible dates. I got through my exercises just fine and without a load of fatigue holding me back.

March 12, 2026: I'm in an angry mood tonight. Will that hold me back, or will it bring me forward? (I'm mad about continued ISIS news.) ...Well... the truth is that the Yoga Fit Skills like Fan Pose helped calm me down. However, Plank at the end riled me up in anger again because the Joy-Con on the Leg Strap wasn't as responsive as I wanted it to be! Grr!

What? Even more timely life-relevant tips from Ring Fit Adventure during Static Stretching?

I also acquired the Seasoned Hip Lifter and Legs That Won't Quit Titles. I shouldn't end the day mad, then!

March 14, 2026: Back to fitness! I was recently asked in the comments section about regulating my emotions with the power of consistent and habitual exercise. I replied that I didn't think I was at that level yet. However, today, I acquired the two Titles Seated-Forward-Press Professor and All Press is Good Press! I'm feeling good about that. Perhaps you could say that it's cured my depression? Ahahahaha... Anyway, I updated the timeline and Titles list. All Press is Good Press is the last of the group-based Titles, not counting the one for S-ranking all Advanced difficulty minigames and the one for getting all other Titles. We're quickly getting to the point where we might not get new Titles for months, since I'm swallowing up the low-hanging fruits. ...Now I wanna eat grapes. Until next time!

March 15, 2026: I haven't actually eaten any grapes since I wrote that last night. Maybe I'll fix that today. I'm really craving them. Anyway, I got through my workout with nothing special happening. This Pokémon anime Hoenn episode that was uploaded today, Training Wrecks, was pretty inspiring though.

If I was in shape and full of energy like James described, maybe I'll get away with whatever crimes I'll be doing in Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park releasing in two weeks. ...I'm not buying the game, but I'm sure I'll be great with the workouts I'm doing! Mwahahaha! ...Wot? I'm stealing...flowers from the park? ...Why? 

March 16, 2026: Y'know, my back actually kinda hurts. Not from pain, but from being sore. Maybe I shouldn't be exercising today? Let's see wot happens. ...Well, imagine there's a little timeskip there. Uh... my workout was fine. My back feels a little better, actually.

March 19, 2026: I've felt fatigued this week. Not the greatest. Daylight Saving Time is a contributor, I'm sure. As is interacting with a lot of other people. Can I get back into my fitness routine without collapsing in sleep?
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My Hip Lifts for this week have been really terrible, and I'm not sure why. I mean, I know I'm not putting the Ring-Con between my thighs. And I think it really doesn't like if I shift my position around at all, since Hip Lift is very sensitive to the angle you establish on the set-up screen, and any slight deviation from that will tank your score. And if I shift my butt or legs or the distance between the legs or anything during the 20 reps, that'll be noticed and penalised. I think my actual Hip Lifting, for exercise's sake and not the game's sensor's sake, is fine. They probably have you put the Ring-Con in such a dangerous position just to keep it stable. 14 Planks still give me a tough time, in the “this isn't trivial to complete” sense. I got through everything, though!

March 21, 2026: I'm getting in my fourth workout for the week right before the week ends. (By the way, weeks begin on Sunday and end on Saturday. Not everyone agrees with that, but you should, or else you might not understand how KoopaTV works. Or, to a less important extent, the universe.) I also managed to be significantly more stable/disciplined with my Hip Lift, getting an average score of 98/100. (On Thursday it was... in the 70s, I think. Which is terrible.) That's all good!

I also worked out my two Custom Fitness Lists starting April 2026. It'll be a major routine shift.

March 23, 2026: I didn't exercise yesterday because I was out for most of the day. Today, my right Joy-Con battery is low. My Nintendo Switch didn't state this the last time I used it on March 21. Unfortunately, the battery completely depleted while I was doing Hip Lifts. I let it recharge for... I dunno, half an hour? Then finished up Hip Lift and the rest.

March 24, 2026: I left my Joy-Cons attached to the Switch in its dock overnight. I come back today and I get a low battery warning. How?! They should be fully charged! Can my Joy-Cons no longer retain charge now? Is there something faulty about my dock?

The Nintendo Switch dock clearly works, or else the Switch wouldn't have maximum battery life.
The Joy-Cons are clearly charging here after I put them back on the Switch.

I found out the problem at the very bottom of this Nintendo.com support article on Joy-Con Controller Power issues (“Additional information”).

“The console must be connected to the AC adapter and powered on or in Sleep Mode for the Joy-Con to charge while attached to the console.”

I turned my Switch off, fully, with the manual “hold down the button” process that I've decried in the past. I figured the recharging process would be better if the Switch wasn't vampirically sapping electricity in Sleep Mode. It turns out that the Joy-Cons will not charge at all if the Nintendo Switch is not in Sleep Mode (or otherwise on). Whoops. I didn't know that. Or if I did know that, I forgot it. Anyway, so I did Dynamic Stretching and then charged my Joy-Cons for many minutes before doing Standing Forward Fold, the first exercise in the routine. The time period between Dynamic Stretching and Standing Forward Fold pretty much invalidated the whole point of the stretching, since my muscles... unstretched while waiting. Regardless, I made it through my routine. So did my Joy-Cons. Upon concluding, I put my Joy-Cons on my Switch in its dock... and put the Switch on SLEEP MODE instead of powering it off. Hopefully, by the next time I exercise, the Joy-Cons will be fully recharged.

March 26, 2026: Good news: My Joy-Cons are fully charged... by naturally attaching them to the Switch. I didn't need to juice them up with my lightning bolt claws regranted by Lord Bowser's Wonder powers. I stole the Bellabel Park flowers (as did the other Koopalings), and now I must train so I can stave off the attempts by Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach Toadstool, Princess Daisy, a bunch of Toads and flower people, Yoshi, Nabbit, and Rosalina to steal them back. And in those efforts, I got through my workout session today with no disruptive recharge breaks.

March 28, 2026: While I was treating Friday to Saturday as a day (and night) of rest, that plumber and his group of buddies (and Nabbit) went around and bashed in the heads of most of the other Koopalings. I still have a Bellabel Flower in my possession (and I still don't know what it's good for other than that Lord Bowser seeks it as a prize), but I'm on... high alert. It's a bit stressful. Y'know, it's been several years since we were put on such a high profile mission. Let's do some exercise to put that nervous energy to good use. After going through the dynamic stretch, the 10 exercises, and the static stretch, I felt unsatisfied, so I headed to World 56: Fitness Master Lv. 316 to try the Core Crushing (Advanced)—I figured I'd do it from Adventure Mode and not Custom Fitness, just to collect my Multitask Mode bonuses while I'm at it. I got a score of 12700, which is certainly not a high score. And now my abs hurt because I was twisting the Ring-Con on them. Well, if I don't toughen up, it'll be Mario's feet twisting on me, and not a videogame accessory!

March 29, 2026: Every Koopaling has been defeated except for me. I'd say where I am, but... I don't want them to find me. They're searching, though. They got birds. With eyes. Looking for me. All I can do is work out. Which I did.

March 30, 2026: The Toad Brigade and Plucky the bird are snooping around Pipe-Rock Plateau. They know I'm there. It's up to me to resteal the Bellabel Flowers back. While my Rolla Koopa minions keep an eye on them and a thunderstorm keeps them at bay, I'll do another workout. I got shocked... TWICE... while trying to press the power button on my Nintendo Switch. Ow! There's lightning going through me, I can feel it.

I gotta relax before the big boss fight...
Also, Fan Pose is a reference to the Hotel Mario / Paper Mario fan. I'm a fan of the fan (pose).

March 31, 2026: Huh? They're right outside my boss corridor. I'll just conclude my exercising and check it out... Ready to ZAP some plumbers and their pals!

Ahahaha! This'll be EASY with how BUFF I am!

Oh, and before I win my boss fight, here are the final rep totals for the end of March 2026.

Jump back to the top!

April 2026 Commentary

Well, I played more Ring Fit Adventure in March than I did in January or February. That's a good sign. What's not a good sign is the gap to start April.

April 5, 2026: Ugh... ow... I'm not saying that from my exercise routine (which ended pretty well, though starting it was a bit difficult), but from the outcome of that boss battle from the end of last month. I lost. That jerk plumber and his pals got the Bellabel Flower back. It was a disaster. I escaped after getting crushed, but I was in no physical condition to... keep up my routine. I did see my chiropractor for the first time in 2026, though, and he fixed my spine (and shell) and neck—important after getting stomped on. With that rehabilitative action, today I did my first fitness action in several days.

I'm still a bit broken physically, but even more broken emotionally. I'll be analysing my fight in this space for next update. Maybe I'll learn something... April 8, 2026: Turns out I'm more broken physically than I thought. I didn't have the energy or the strength to do my rehab workout for the past two days. But I gotta do it today or ELSE. ...And so I did. My thoughts are more about analysing what went wrong a week ago more than my current fitness, though. I think I figured out the issue of where I went wrong.

It's good that I'm using a deep breathing technique to regain my wherewithal, but...

I've been working on all different parts of my body. My abs, my shell, my arms, and especially my legs with all of these squats. My Wonder form made me a mighty Koopa and augmented my abilities, but out of all of my body parts, I only used my finger in the fight. That basically means all of the training I've done up to this point went to waste. I...guess I didn't believe in myself. In the training I've gone through. But... how could I pass up my lightning claw powers? I haven't done that since Hotel Mario, after all. I guess I got too excited to play with my powers and not my organic fit ability...

At least my exercising didn't go to total waste.
Look how awesome my escape jump is! Long and far!

April 9, 2026: Now that I've analysed why I failed, what do I do from here? Well, first of all, I got the Unnervingly into Planking Title because I've done a total of 1,000 Planks throughout my time playing this game. I've updated the Timeline accordingly. That means that I just need... 2,000 more Planks and then I'm done with them. Second of all... maybe I've gotten a bit distracted lately. And I don't mean that in a bad way. Serving King Koopa and the Koopa Kingdom are the best pursuits one can do. But now that I... lost the battle, there is one thing to refocus on.

If those twerpy Toads are keeping up their training, then I must to keep up with my training!

I oughta activate the next phase of this Fitness Log. Stay tuned.

April 11, 2026: It's time for the single biggest change to this Fitness Log since it began. Behold:

These lists are going to change the next time I play, so I won't go in-depth on why they're made the way they are.

My routine is now spread into two Fitness Lists: C and D. Between the two of these, I will now be making progress towards every remaining Title on my list. I completed Custom Fitness List C in 6:56 (by comparison, I could complete Fitness List B, which is what I was doing for the months leading up to today, in 9 minutes on average). I got the Razor-Sharp Leg Scissors Title, which is the final one for Leg Scissors, so... I gotta talk about it for today because it's never going to appear in this article going forward. For Leg Scissors, you must sit down on the ground with your butt / back / shell on the ground and your legs in front of you suspended in the air... and then criss-cross them. A lot. 42 times in my case. This is compounded by Fitness List C being very heavy on exercises involving legs, although those are also disproportionately the ones that I need to work on. This is why Allegra gave me so much trouble in Adventure Mode...

I then proceeded to Fitness List D, completed in 9:16. Here I got the Pretty Good Flutter Kicker Title, which is only level 3, so there will be many more flutter kicks to come! By the end of doing both of these, I was quite a bit more sweaty and worn out than when I was doing List B in March and April. I think that's a good thing. I was quite focused while going through both of these lists, as in, distraction-free. The fact of the matter is that I don't think it's mathematically likely that I achieve every Title unless I do two lists in one session, and that doing just 10 Fit Skills a session wasn't enough to beat Mario and Rosalina and those Toads. Now it's double!

Or... it would be double, but now it's less, since Leg Scissors is being snipped off.

April 12, 2026: Given what happened to Leg Scissors, here is the real new workout routine:

Fitness List C: 12x Chair Pose, 14x Leg Raise, 10x Overhead Squat, 10x Overhead Squat, 14x Overhead Side Bend, 20x Seated Forward Press, 14x Overhead Press, 16x Knee-to-Chest, 10x Plank, Core Crushing (Advanced).
Fitness List D: 16x Standing Forward Fold, 10x Wide Squat, 10x Wide Squat, 28x Fan Pose, 50x Flutter Kick, 20x Hip Lift, 10x Plank, 28x Shoulder Press, Core Crushing (Advanced).

With this change, I did Fitness List C in 7:31, and Fitness List D in 8:15. That's way more balanced. I'll explain how I made these lists.

My criteria was to begin each one with a Yoga Pose and to end each one with Core Crushing (Advanced). I wanted to split up the overall bottom-half (of my body) focus of what's left so they're not one after another, if possible. I wanted to have two 10x Overhead Squat, two 10x Wide Squat, and two 10x Plank in there, but no more than 20 squats of any sort per list. Planks should be near the end as a sort of miniboss before the Core Crushing (Advanced) final boss. The two lists should last approximately the same length of time.

With all of those constraints, I came up with what I have. I'm definitely not confident on the rep quantity besides the squats / plank. A lot of these aren't the highest that they can go, though for Chair Pose, that's intentional to purposefully drag it out a bit longer. ...Not that there's anything stopping me from putting Fit Skills on here that I've already fully completed. Something to think about.

April 14, 2026: My sides kinda hurt yesterday. Maybe related to this whole fitness thing and the new routine. I could talk about my experiences with some Fit Skills I haven't talked about, but instead, I have an update on Core Crushing (Advanced)! On List C, I got 13,400 points. And then for List D, I got into a real flow state the likes of which I haven't experienced in a while... I crushed enough robots to earn 14,500 points! A new record! I did it! I broke my record! I'M FREE!

I won't transcribe it here, but I let out one very emphatic curse word when I saw that 14,500 points still gives an A rank and not S.
You might be spoiled by people who over-react for clicks and viral moments on streams, but usually when I play videogames, I don't say anything out loud.

Ugh, just how many points do I need to get to S rank?! 15,000? 16,000? 20,000?! (I don't think that's possible.)

April 16, 2026:I'm reducing Flutter Kick's rep count because it's harder than it should be to do all 50. My five options are: 20, 28, 34, 42, and 50. Let's go down to... 34. I like how the options are spaced by 8... except when they aren't. I'm also raising Overhead Side Bend from 14 to 16. I got 13,250 and then 13,050 points on Core Crushing (Advanced). Just so you know, a score ending in 50 means I busted the robot successfully, but I only get half credit because my abdominal twist is too weak. This is run-killing. Probably worse than hitting a shield and getting no points, because at least I can abdominal twist again and get full points on the same robot(s). Half-credit is permanent and can't be repeated. I should also note that the sequence of robots is the same every time you play.

April 20, 2026: Me not updating isn't because I lost to Mario again. I didn't even fight him! ...Again. No, I genuinely had issues with my right leg. This was cured, or at least mitigated, with naproxen on Saturday and Sunday. Why didn't I do Multitask Mode reps? ...Uh... laziness, I dunno. Leg issues shouldn't stop me doing things with my arms, although I couldn't really walk unassisted over the weekend. In light of this, for today's workout, I'm reducing the rep count to their minimal requirement for each Fit Skill. It'll go back to normal levels when I feel like I'm not going to harm myself. My leg probably does hurt because of Ring Fit Adventure, since the only thing that changed was that, and this routine is disproportionately leg-based (since I disproportionately avoided leg-based Fit Skills during the 69 Adventure Mode Fitness Logs).

For Fitness List C, that's 6 Chair Poses, 8 everything else, and Core Crushing (Advanced). With Chair Pose, my general feeling was... “That's it? Already?” I got 12,850 on Core Crushing (Advanced), which was 72 Abdominal Press & Twists. Fitness List C only took 3 minutes and 49 seconds. For Fitness List D, everything was set to 8 reps, except Standing Forward Fold (6) and Flutter Kick (20). And, of course, Core Crushing (Advanced) can't be customised like that. Fan Pose is especially bad at 8 reps because the 8 reps are... bend to the left (1), return to centre (2). Repeat once (3 & 4). Now, bend to the right (5), return to centre (6), bend to the right and return to centre again (7 & 8). All done! Shoulder Press is similar in that you get four presses per shoulder, and in-between, there is a recalibration screen because you have to physically change the orientation of the Ring-Con. One, two, three, four... PAUSE! One, two, three, four... DONE! And for Flutter Kick, with only 20 easy Flutter Kicks to do, I finally got an S-rank on it (each Flutter Kick was given 100 points). Yippee? What isn't yippee is my 12,400 score in the second try at Core Crushing (Advanced), with 74 Abdominal Press & Twist reps. (Fitness List D was completed in 3:23.)

So what is my issue? I think it's one or both of Knee-to-Chest and Flutter Kick. I can feel something I don't think I'm supposed to feel in my right leg when I Knee-to-Chest with it. And Flutter Kick is still very involved. Hm. More research needed.

April 23, 2026: Maybe it's a poor look where I write that more research is needed, and then disappear. But at least I feel a bit better? In any case, I heavily adjusted my Fitness Lists C and D. Again. And not just back to what they were before. Check these out:

This can best be explained by Ludwig being afraid of putting too much stress on his stubby, weak legs.
Flutter Kick and Knee-to-Chest are down from earlier in April, but Overhead Side Bend and Overhead Press are up!

I got 14,000 points (with 79 Abdominal Press & Twists) on Core Crushing (Advanced), breaking my streak of doing worse and worse with every attempt. I dunno if you noticed that over the past few days! But as I was completing Fitness List C, I paused before going to Fitness List D, since I felt a... constricting pain in my chest. Not a good sign—I haven't even gotten to the Flutter Kicks yet. I have some Budesonide-Formoterol sitting around. It might be expired (or... past its suggested use by date), but I used it anyway and felt better. I did much worse in Core Crushing (Advanced) with 12,700 points. I didn't even bother looking at how many reps I did for that, and I think I'll stop reporting those. The answer is “in the 70s.”

April 25, 2026: I have a headache, bleh. I also haven't been able to relax the whole day, so I'm exercising in the night before going to bed. Smart idea? Maybe, maybe not. At least I got through my 10 Knee-to-Chest reps so well that I feel like maybe I should increase the rep count for next time...? I got 13,000 on Core Crushing (Advanced) the first try. Then I proceeded to have a weird Hip Lift experience where it wasn't registering my returns properly, or if they were, it was a second delayed. Then my second Core Crushing was 13,950. I was on a record-breaking pace until... I wasn't. My twist decided to stop registering. I blame the controls!

April 26, 2026: I don't have a headache today, at least. Remember yesterday I wrote that “maybe I should increase the rep count for next time...?” I forgot. Perhaps that's a good thing, since the time on my two Fitness Lists are almost equal: 8:01 on C and 7:55 on D. My two Core Crushing (Advance) scores today were 13,000 and 13,300. I'm having trouble doing abdominal twists towards the left side and having the Ring-Con properly recognise them. Wotever, I need to take a shower, and shave, and trim my claws, and eat, and...

April 27, 2026: My notable event for today is that I remembered to change my Knee-to-Chest rep count to 14 (from 10). ...I also changed Leg Raise to 16 (from 14) and Plank (both lists) to 14 (from 10). That's... actually quite substantial. Maybe that warrants a screenshot. (...Too bad, no screenshot until May.)

I sort of regret the Plank difficulty increase. Going from 10 to 14 there is very noticeably difficult. 10 to 14 for Knee-to-Chest is quite marginal by comparison.

This time, I shouted out TWO expletives!

The preceding paragraph was FAKE NEWS for two reasons, mostly because I wrote it before fully completing Fitness List C (which took me 8:50 to fully complete). Number one, I obviously just gave a new screenshot before May. Number two, a new record in Core Crushing (Advanced) is itself a notable event. But... imagine if I got to 15,000 points instead of 14,950. If only my twist wasn't so weak early on that it gave me just half-credit. What if 15,000 is the S-rank goal? WHAT IF? (I dunno wot the goal is.) I feel too demotivated to even do Fitness List D... but this is a stupid attitude. If I got a much lower score, I'd be feeling better and proceed with the second half. How does that make sense? I should be happy to break my record, not sadder than when I started! So I proceeded to complete Fitness List D, which aside from 10→14 Plank, is otherwise unchanged. I got 13,400 on D's Core Crushing (Advanced). Total Fitness List D exercise time was 8:04.

April 29, 2026: I set the Plank on Fitness List C back to 10, but I forgot to change it away from 14 on Fitness List D, and the difference was very noticeable between the two. I didn't work out yesterday because I was busy sleeping through much of it. Little energy. Today, I have some kind of... weakness in my left leg, like, not the hip, but the leg. The pain is about where a human's knee would be. I don't believe it's because I exercised too much, and conversely, I don't believe it's because I didn't exercise yesterday. Who knows. But it's affecting my performance a bit. For example, on BOTH tries of Core Crushing (Advanced), I got a terrible 13,000 points, although seeing the high score of 14,950 taunt me in the corner of the screen did damage my motivation, regardless of how I ended Monday's blurb saying I should be happy to have a higher record.

April 30, 2026: It's the last day of April. That means I gotta give an end-of-month update after this, and also a new Table of Contents link, and everything... Like last time, I forgot to change the Plank count on Fitness List D. Unlike last time, I realised this before beginning the Planks, so I knew what to expect. My two Core Crushing (Advanced) scores were 14500, and then 14000. I was very close... again... but I had some misinputs that slowed me down.

According to my calculations, at my current pace, I'll be done by the end of September. 
That can be shortened if I increase my Flutter Kick reps.
...Assuming I also S-rank Core Crushing (Advanced).

When I say my current pace, I mean 20 days a month.
I'm not assuming that Mario will have me knocked out for the whole first week of each month every month.

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May 2026 Commentary

May 5, 2026 While I'm not assuming that Mario will knock me out, maybe I should be assuming I'll develop some other kind of problem. From Saturday morning to now (inclusive of right now, actually), I've had really debilitating neck pain, of the sort that makes me scream by just trying to turn my head. Several days of naproxen and muscle relaxant later, and I'm feeling... acceptable? Still not good, but at least I stopped screaming. ...Mostly. The most painful moments now are actually trying to fall asleep. I've now stopped using my wedge pillow and transitioned to a standard firm pillow. I'm not sure if this is actually helping, or if it's the work of the drugs. The time gap probably explains why I got 12,700 in Core Crushing (Advanced), and maybe it explains why my Joy-Cons needed to be recharged after completing Fitness List C but before starting Fitness List D. I let the Joy-Con charge for... let's say 10 minutes, and then went on to complete the rest of my workout. The only exercise that was... uncomfortable... was Shoulder Press, due to its proximity to the neck. At least in Core Crushing (Advanced), I got 13,200 points. I'm leaving the Joy-Cons to fully recharge overnight!

May 7, 2026 Let's try this more. I have grocery store sushi waiting for me at the end of the workout. (Tuna.) I wasn't focused during today's workout (thinking about the sushi), which doesn't make for an interesting fitness log. I got to 13,500 points at the end of Fitness List C in Core Crushing (Advanced)... but far more importantly, I got the Beloved by Knee-to-Chest Title, completing Knee-to-Chest from my workout requirement! Woohoo! Unfortunately, trying to send the screenshot from my Nintendo Switch to my designated Facebook account was much more difficult than ever before. So difficult, I'm unable to do it. This time, it logged me out, so I had to log back in from the Switch. Upon doing so, Meta's reCAPTCHA Enterprise tool licensed from Google appeared. I had to check that I am not a robot (unlike the robots from Core Crushing), which takes multiple tries because the Nintendo Switch's secret Internet browser can't display properly load the reCAPTCHA checkbox on the first try. Upon doing so, I had to fill in all of the boxes with bicycles, buses, motorcycles, crosswalks, fire hydrants, and more. (With a Joy-Con controller still attached to the Ring-Con.) Upon finally finishing its demands, Facebook just spat me out to the log-in screen again as if nothing ever happened. I went through this a second time. Same result. Help? This is not a matter of invalid log-in credentials. Facebook will just tell you if you're trying to log in with an incorrect email address or incorrect password.

Bicyclists... my enemy...
And, yes, the lighting here is bad not because of my camera, but because it was bad as presented to me.
Click? What do you think I'm using? A mouse? I'm using a Joy-Con attached to a Ring-Con!

Given my difficulties, I haven't updated the article with the screenshot in the timeline section. I spent so much time (....over an hour) trying to figure this out that I actually did the Dynamic Stretching segment for Fitness List D. (Every other time up to this point I've done Dynamic Stretching on List C, the exercises, Static Stretching on List C, and then immediately went to List D's exercises, skipping D's Dynamic Stretching. I still always end with D's Static Stretching, though.) I also only got 13,300 on Fitness List D's Core Crushing (Advanced). ...NOW I can eat the sushi! But...no... I suddenly just developed a bloody nose at the beginning of eating my sushi. Ugh, today SUCKED.

Hours later, I got the screenshot added to the timeline section of this article by hooking up my Switch to my PC with a USB-C cable (the same one I use to charge my smartphone). I've collected over 2,700 Ring Fit Adventure screenshots, apparently.

May 10, 2026 On Friday (the 8th), I visited the chiropractor. I felt like he didn't solve the neck problem I came in there seeking relief for, though I DID feel great around the neck, like the shoulders and upper back. And in the following two days later, I feel like my problems are very nearly just gone. I'm back to good enough physical condition! In other news, I can now access Facebook posting from my Switch after identifying enough crosswalks—which I tried to do before putting my Joy-Cons in the Ring Fit Adventure accessories. It's a lot easier to go through the menus with two normal Joy-Cons than one Joy-Con on its side attached to a bulky accessory. I got this screenshot after my session (hence the checkmarks) and it passed through to Facebook as easily as it did before.

Knee-to-Chest was removed entirely, and Flutter Kick's rep count increased 28→34.

I actually worked up a real sweat by the end of this. My Core Crushing (Advanced) scores were really bad: first 13100, then a disastrous 10650. (Somehow that's still an A-rank.)

May 11, 2026 I'm pretty grumpy going into today's session. Apparently, Smeargle is a possible answer in the Pokémon Online Safari channel Detective quest. If that is a sequence of words that makes no sense to you, don't worry about it. (Or go to corso.la and find out what it means for yourself. It's usually fun.) I was very unfocused and did my workout with a lot of computer breaks in-between exercises, which is a poor way of going about it. As a result, I got bad Core Crushing (Advanced) scores of 13,100 and 13,450. That's better than yesterday, at least?

May 15, 2026 Today, I'm not feeling grumpy or hungry or about to pass out from exhaustion or having to go to sleep hours earlier than usual. ...Unlike the 12th, 13th, and 14th, hence no updates on those days. I did do exercise activity—just not via Ring Fit Adventure. For my two Core Crushing (Advanced) scores this day, I only got 13,000 and 11,400.

May 17, 2026 I changed Leg Raise from 16 reps to 20 reps, the maximum amount. Remember: increasing the rep count in Ring Fit Adventure doesn't just increase the number of reps you have to do—but it increases the required held duration of every rep in the set (and not just the incrementally added ones). That could easily be another 20 seconds added to the whole set, hence why I went from 7:55 for Fitness List C to 8:19. (The 16 reps each get another half a second, and then the 4 new reps are an incremental 12 seconds total, assuming 3 seconds per rep.) That prompts me talk about the class of Fit Skills that have you sit on the floor with your legs out. For this article's purposes, that's Leg Raise, Knee-to-Chest (completed earlier this month), and Flutter Kick.

This isn't the first time I've discussed having a cushion and avoiding doing this on a hard floor, but it's been a good five years since then.

For the entirety of my playing Ring Fit Adventure (since Week 1 back in 2019), I've been playing in the same location. The basement next to my office. There is a carpet I run/stand/sit on, as well as a couch I use specifically for Thigh Rider / Thigh Press. That carpet—which is far better than a hard floor—suffices for most things (including seated activities like Seated Forward Press), but for Leg Raise, Knee-to-Chest, and Flutter Kick, you'll want a cushion. I have a cushion, and it's far nicer to use it than not using it. As is typical for Koopa Kingdom, there's a slit in the centre for my tail to rest in so I'm not squishing my tail. It's nice.

I can't use such a cushion for Hip Lift because it distorts returning to ground level from the lift, which prevents me from completing the reps. But I don't really need it for Hip Lift anyway since it's not really... sitting.

My Core Crushing (Advanced) scores were bad today. I saved a 30-second clip of one of them. I'll upload and discuss it in more detail when I have nothing else to write about on an upcoming day. (For future reference, since Facebook again apparently removed the option to download my own video from my own profile, view-source the reel page and search for downloadable_uri_hd in the code, copy the link, replace \/ with /, and that's the download link.) Today has plenty of action already, especially because... I'm now the No. 1 Fan Poser! Yes, I've done 2,000 Fan Poses and have maxed out their Titles. I've updated the Timeline with this.

May 18, 2026 Let's talk about Fan Pose. I removed it from the Custom Fitness line-up. It's also notable that Fan Pose is the first exercise where I started having to complete its level 2 in January 2026 (in other words, it was an OG Fit Skill for this log) and have now fully completed and acquired its level 4 Title. That's because the Yoga skills have lower rep count requirements than the other skill types. Interestingly, I see Fan Pose as akin to Overhead Side Bend, except sitting down, which activates a few different muscles. They certainly both help the waist out. I completed Fitness List C in 8:19, and with a score of 13,200 in Core Crushing (Advanced). I purposefully tried to do that minigame slower and more accurately with regards to inputs, since I might have to retrain myself to stop making so many flubs. My Fitness List D time is all the way down to 7:01 because of Fan Pose's absence. I also got 12,850 in Core Crushing (Advanced), which had me go so slowly that my twist on a robot five-pack was too weak to get full credit.




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. The Table of Contents on this page with the jumping back to the top of the page is unique to this article—no other KoopaTV article has done that before. Only a few KoopaTV articles have a table of contents at all, despite many articles having navigable anchor links.