Nintendo's New Fit Game (Ring Fit Adventure™)

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Soundwave said:

DarthMetalliCube said:

While I'll say, I don't buy that Ring Fit could magically make a guy ripped or lose a gut in a month or two, I do have to say that I think it's important to consider that a good chunk of this game isn't just cardio, but actual resistance training. This means you're constantly (or usually) working your muscles, and the time it takes for the muscle tissue to rebuild will take a day or longer which burns more calories over time - vs straight up cardio which burns calories more or less all at once.

The in-game calorie burning counter is neat, but I question how accurate that is. I was legit sweating bullets and completely sore doing squats for an hour with this game, and basically ready to collapse, and yet the calorie counter stood at like 270. I'm thinking there is absolutely no way I burned that few calories when I used to ride an exercise fan bike, and while I'd be sweating quite a bit I burned over TWICE the amount of calories after riding for an hour according to the bike monitor, and sure I felt winded but I was actually MORE exhausted playing an hour of Ring Fit with all the resistance training. I feel like the game is failing to count the calories burned from the rebuilding muscle tissue, which IS significant. Could be wrong but just my take.

Yes and no. Muscle exhaustion doesn't necessarily correlate to calorie loss, like for example it's very easy even within 5 minutes to exhaust your muscles to the point of near "collapse" (or lets say more accurately exhaustion) in any weight room by doing 80-90% of your max bench press or at the squat rack, but doing that 6-7 reps for 4-5 sets with minimal break in between, you're going to quickly hit a point where you've reached complete muscle fatigue. 

But that doesn't really mean the pizza you ate earlier in the day is now gone even though you feel dead and couldn't do another rep. 

If it worked like that, really standard cardio would be useless, you could just do 15-20 minutes of heavy lifting and push yourself to exhaustion pretty easily by super-setting, I wish that it worked like that because I hate treadmills and bikes, though I just run a basic basketball workout these days. I'll lift typically for 45-50 minutes, then 20-35 minutes of a constant motion basketball shooting drill, which for me is a lot more fun than a treadmill.  

It does work like that, it's called the afterburn effect, a short yet highly intense workout session can lead to burning extra calories for hours after the workout compared to a longer light-moderate intensity workout.