miCoach Announced for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360

Adidas and THQ today announced that they will be teaming up to release the popular miCoach interactive athletic training system to the Kinect for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation Move for the PlayStation 3 in early 2012. Using the well known miCoach system, this new health and fitness game will take users on an entirely new experience as it will features apps that allow for data transfer.

Using well known Adidas athletes, such as Dwight Howard, Kaká, Tyson Gay, Jessica Ennis, Ana Ivanovic and Eric Berry, who will guide users through a wide selection of sport-specific personalized training programs. Users will also receive real-time feedback on their actual in-game performance during their workouts when wearing a miCoach heart rate monitor (or any ANT+ compatible monitor).

Any existing miCoach hardware will also interact with the videogames on both platforms allowing for existing data and data gathered on the move to be wirelessly transmitted to the videogame console and thus ensuring the maximum data retention and therefore a better workout pattern.

Currently there is no firm release date for the title, but early 2012 is the benchmark.