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The Sims 3 Pets eGuide Essentials Skills

Athletic

Want to feel the burn? Develop the Athletic skill to positively affect your Sim’s health in a variety of ways, from body shape to longevity. There are two types of exercise: strength and cardio. Using the weights improves muscle definition, while cardio drops pounds.

  • Acquire by: Take Athletic Class, Use Exercise Equipment, Swim, Workout with TV, Workout with Stereo
  • Development tools: Shut-In Treadmill, Exercise Queen, Pool, TV, Stereo

Development Benefits

Developing the Athletic skill is essential for the Professional Sports career, but it’s also useful for the Law Enforcement career. If Sims want to excel at work, they must hone this skill on home equipment, at the gym or pool, or on the machines at the stadium. Sims can also exercise at home with the TV or a stereo, but the workout is not as effective as one with dedicated equipment. The higher the Sim’s skill, the longer they can exercise without earning the Fatigued moodlet.

Here are the benefits of developing the Athletic skill:

  • Level 1: As soon as Sims hit the first level of this skill, they can choose to jog to locations as exercise.
  • Level 3: Sims can earn the Pumped moodlet from extended workouts once they reach level 3.
  • Level 5: Once Sims reach level 5 of the development ladder, they also run faster when directed around town on foot via the Go Here interaction.
  • Level 6 : At level 6, athletic Sims learn the Train interaction, which lets them help other Sims improve their Athletic skill. It requires an exercise machine. When another Sim is getting trained by a level 6 athlete, the exercising Sim loses weight and gains Athletic skill faster than if they were exercising alone.

As the Athletic skill is developed, Sims earn new “tones” for workouts. These special tones modify a workout, which can lead to earning or avoiding certain moodlets. The Don’t Break a Sweat tone is good for minimizing the amount of Hygiene decay so the Grungy moodlet doesn’t kick in as soon. Use these tones to get the best possible workout for the current situation:

  • Don’t Break a Sweat (Level 1): Bad Hygiene is a real problem with extended workouts. Use this tone to work out without a heavy Hygiene decay.
  • Good Pacing (Level 3): Good Pacing lets you increase the length of a workout before the Fatigued moodlet takes effect.
  • Push Self (Level 5): Use Push Self to increase the speed of building muscle, dropping pounds, and gaining skill. However, after Push Self is used, Sims wake up with the Sore moodlet.
  • Quick Burst (Level 7): Quick Burst allows your Sim to get a lot of body shape change and skill much faster than usual, but the Sim gets fatigued and sore much more quickly as well. Working out with other tones until fatigued will always yield more skill and body shape change than working out until fatigued using Quick Burst, but Quick Burst gives you faster skill gains.

Skill Challenges

  • Body Builder: Body Builders have dedicated at least 60 hours to strength workouts. This dedication pays off, because they are never fatigued after strength workouts.
  • Marathon Runner: Marathon Runners must run at least 500 kilometers before they earn this title. However, accomplishing this incredible feat guarantees them a longer, healthier life.
  • Fitness Nut: Fitness Nuts have spent 75 hours focusing on cardio workouts. All that time experiencing the burn means they are no longer fatigued after cardio workouts.