This Guy Attempted to Lose Weight by Playing Video Games - Men's Health

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In a caller video connected his YouTube channel, gamer and streamer Skooch reveals that aft realizing helium was successful astir apt the worst signifier of his life—a effect of sitting successful a gaming seat each time and eating excessively overmuch accelerated food—he decided to spot however overmuch of a alteration helium could marque to his assemblage simply by playing fitness-themed games utilizing a VR headset.

"I wanted to make the world's archetypal ever gamer body; a assemblage crafted by video games and video games alone," helium says. "VR gaming is benignant of magical, and there's a batch of games that tin get your heart-rate up and pumping," helium says.

Skooch started retired by playing Beat Saber, wherever you usage the controller to deflect boxes that travel flying towards you acceptable to music. "I felt similar zoning retired to bangers would beryllium the easiest mode to really pain calories," helium says.

"The archetypal time of doing this was really importantly harder than I expected it to be," helium says, though helium adds that helium soon got utilized to it implicit the pursuing days. "It gave maine a crushed to get up disconnected my gamer seat and bash thing that was really bully for my body."

Skooch besides recovered that arsenic helium got amended astatine the game, the strength increased, meaning the workouts got shorter. "Standing up and having to plaything your arms astir for hours each azygous time is exhausting and time-consuming," helium says. "So being capable to chopped down that clip and inactive pain calories felt beauteous good."

However, conscionable playing the 1 crippled soon began to consciousness similar a chore, and truthful Skooch switched things up and started playing different games similar Bullet Hells and Ring Fit Adventure that progressive moving his body.

"These different games were obscurity adjacent arsenic effectual astatine burning abdominous disconnected of my body, but it didn't matter... a atrocious workout is amended than nary workout astatine all," helium says. "I could consciousness the regular of fittingness games starting to signifier successful my brain, but I had to support it absorbing truthful I kept jumping astir random games... It wasn't thing I dreaded passim my time similar a batch of the different exercises I've done, this conscionable benignant of became portion of my life."

At the commencement of the challenge, Skooch weighed 186.2 pounds. Through a period of exclusively playing fittingness games, with nary further workouts oregon changes to his diet, helium dropped down to 177.6 pounds, a full nonaccomplishment of 8.6 pounds. "My assemblage results weren't that drastic, and this isn't going to beryllium selling immoderate posters," helium says. "The constituent was to spot if I could get into amended signifier utilizing video games and video games alone, and I consciousness similar I did beauteous well... One measurement is infinitely amended than zero, truthful arsenic agelong arsenic you instrumentality that 1 measurement you're headed successful the close direction."

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