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

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. 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

??? Fan Poser [Fan Pose level 4]

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

Date Achieved: N/A

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

??? into Planking [Planks level 3]

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

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

??? [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 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

??? [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 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.

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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.

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.