It’s high time to take video gaming seriously not only as a career but more so, for your physical wellbeing. A study conducted by game platform Stakester has shown that two hours of gameplay can burn as much as 420 calories in men and up to 472 for women. That’s equivalent to performing a whopping 1,000 sit-ups.
CEO and founder Tom Fairey said the idea that people experience increased heart rate and stress during gameplay is no-brainer. However, the numbers that came out from their study are astonishing.
As New York Post notes, the test was conducted among fifty volunteer gamers tasked to wear smart devices that tracked their heart rate and energy consumption while playing FIFA and Call of Duty: Warzone for two hours.
‘We all know that competition increases our heart rate and most of us have experienced the “gaming sweat” that happens when you’re searching for a last-minute goal in FIFA or in a tight spot in Warzone. It’s no surprise that this burns calories,” said Fairey. “But we were surprised to see just how many is burned during a 2-hour session, it certainly beats doing 1,000 sit-ups!”
Results also showed that in just an hour of gameplay, the male gamers burned an average of 210 calories, while the women lost an average of 236.
According to Daily Mail, this isn’t the first time that playing video games proved to be a (much) healthier hobby than most people thought. In 2020, a team from Queensland University of Technology surveyed 1,400 gamers from 65 countries to investigate the BMI (Body Mass Index) status of a global sample of esports players.
The study revealed that players are 21 percent more likely to have a healthier body weight than the average person. Not only that, esport gamers are less likely to have smoking and drinking habits and are significantly more active than the general public.
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