If he's been recording a bunch of a videos all this time, then he has a great recipe for success brewing here and now. Videos on a variety of topics, with a backlog of 6 years of different videos for a very popular game? Pretty good.
Though I am an avid league player, the new league-free content with a similar format is refreshing and quite fun to watch. I was not a subscriber before, but I will subscribe because of this change.
I used to like the league Content but he didnt seem like he was in it anymore so I completely agree. But he seems so happy and creative now that I'm subbing as well.
I agree. I started to watch league content, not league gameplay, that's why I mainly followed people like skooch and MagikarpUsedFly. And now that I know them, I much prefer any video they apply themselves than the dry and straight forward let's play. I just wish more lol players would appreciate the content than the game so the creators don't suffer for it.
Here's my take on Ring Fit Adventure! If you felt like the game was too hard, you probably had the difficulty too high! You can manually turn down the difficulty in the settings to make sure you're not overexterting yourself. I also agree that Ring Fit is much more workout-focused, but the way I see it is that instead of just doing reps in silence, the game kind of distracts you from thinking about the fact that you're working out while you're doing it. If that makes sense. And it keeps track of your workout for you so you dont have to think about it while you do it. Hope that helps!
I also thing the other games are mainly cardio, which yes burn more calories but ring fit focuses on strength and muscle building, which help increase metabolism over time. So using both intermittently might be the best thing to do!
I'm gonna add "I didn't have a collar on my neck so I don't know why I was acting like a bitch" to my vocabulary. Thank you Skooch for another enlightening and hilarious video 😂
I personally love ringfit, but it's definitely not a game to be underestimated. There is no shame in starting at a lower difficulty. There is no shortage of videos on youtube featuring people who crank the difficulty and barely beat the first level. Pace yourselves, my friends, and have fun with the RPG where you'd better even lift, bro.
I love it and yes !! I made it super easy and crank up the difficulty super slowly. Doing that I've been playing it multiple times a week for two years and always have fun. And I put on enough muscle that I added weight lifting after a few months because it felt good to exercise at this point.
I love how he says the changes in his body wasn't that drastic, but he very CLEARLY gained abs and got thinner than the previous picture. I can't be the only one seeing this development
I was so mad he didn't play TOTF. Its the only VR game I play because the exercise gets nuts. I use custom settings now where I increase their aggro alot but set their defense to the default normal defense. Also slow down their punch speed. This means I have to actively dodge hits to survive, and burn insane calories.
There's this VR mmo I've always wanted to try called A Township Tale where you physically have to do everything you want to do in the game. Want to gather wood? Go swing your arms to chop down a tree then swing them some more to chop up the wood into pieces you can carry. As someone who's been 200+ lbs for as long as I can remember, it's a very difficult game to play. However, watching this video inspired me to give it another try. So thanks Skooch. This was exactly what I needed. Keep up the good work!
Bro, I thought that would just be a meme but MAN you've actually made a lot of progress, your body improvement is actually visible during some of the workouts (in the switch fit shit) and on the bodychecks, congratulations. And your friend is right, you don't actually need motivation for fitness, you need discipline and recognize your own everyday-small-sucssesses (if that is even a word). You might not become shreded and bulked but is a pretty good cardio
I have a few friends on twitch who use Beat Saber for workouts (Cottonsmiles in particular) and have lost LOTS of weight. I've been wanting to work out, but I always run into the same traps you talked about. I guess I thought I was the only one who thought those things, so the transparency in this video is incredibly motivating; I don't feel so alone. Thank you THANK YOU for being who you are. Also, Synth Riders is AMAZING.. another visual music type game. I think you'll love it. Cheers!
I did this for 2 months in June or so with a weight vest and beatsaber and lost 40lbs! Custom songs really are intense, if you have vr I recommend it’s a really good way to train without being bored, I did about a 2 hour session twice a week, with some portion control with my food and kicked my body’s butt. Good luck out there gamers.
The real difference between Ring Fit and most VR is that RFA has a lot more resistance exercise, where most VR games don't unless it's forcing you to squat. The controllers weigh nothing on purpose, most of your movement is within a comparatively limited scope, and it's a lot of pretty standard movement. VR might not be bad for weight loss in the long run but RFA might actually build some muscle.
Advice for people interested in Ring Fit Adventure, if you feel like things are way too difficult, manually lower the difficulty a fair amount, the game often lowers it in increments of 1 or 2 points but if it feels difficult I would recommend to lower it by 5 whole points. Ring Fit in my experience, sets difficulty so that you can have an intensive half hour training that will kick your ass or 20 minutes of training that will leave you a bit winded. But if you go for a longer session then using a lower difficulty setting is a better choice.
The training level mainly will increase the amount of reps you need to perform for each attack. This can change absolutely nothing on some work out moves, and an absolute nightmare on moves such as doing 40 squats. If anything, it will probably just make your workout longer. If you untimatly feel like you are making little to no progress, dont feel guilty lowering the level because for some people it may be better to simply do shorter reps on your moves to experience more progression rather than "increasing your work out load"
@@KairuSan1 increases the amount of reps and the length of time you have to do the exercises, which is actually a big deal, doing a squat slower actually makes it harder in most cases.
I will say that I am someone who is absolutely addicted to music. I am listening to music all times of the day. I say this as someone who's come to this from the angle of being more invested in the music. I played what I enjoyed for hours on end in Beat Saber to the point of sometimes 6 hour sessions after a full shift at work. I never played for the active nature but the ability to embody the music. Despite only doing it for my love of music I felt the strength and endurance from daily consistent play. While it can be a good method of workout, it can be insanely strenuous. I suggest it only to those who love music as that love, much like my own, is what can push you through pain and fatigue. That is , of course, if you wish to use it as a method of being healthy. For any form of a healthy routine it is arguably more important to be invested through a deeper seated want than just a necessity. Much like you said, seeing a meta can push you to do something even if you don't find it enjoyable. Finding a method that is enjoyable can be more effective as it will keep up the heathy habit over a short term efficient method. Best wishes and hope you can continue to enjoy what ever you decide to purse my friend.
This is so true! I always struggled to find exercise I liked. I forced myself to do cardio, but always hated it and would fall off. I found out I love lifting weights, and have kept to it! I just got VR, and I'm in love with Beat Saber (I'm a huge music listener like yourself). The Weeknd tracks make you squat, lean, and do lots of arm rotations. I'll absolutely be adding a 20-30 minute session as a gym warmup!
In the side by side, You can tell you that you became a little more toned for sure. As someone whos been trying to get fit via mostly dancing in VRC and Beatsaber myself but stuggles due to bad joints, i feel the pains and struggles man. Yall did great and this is lowkey inspiring to keep at it.
My favorite VR workout game is Ragnarock. It's kinda like beat saber, but you are a viking drummer on a long boat and racing other people to the sound of rock and metal songs.
I haven't worked out in years. I felt like just giving up on keeping up with my body. My knees tap out quickly when making them move too much. This has given me a new idea that I think will work. Thanks Skooch
Good on you Skooch! I used to do Beat Saber daily for a while when I first got VR, now I want to get back into it after watching this. Hopefully someday I will reach peak Gamer Physique.
Actually I can see a difference in the weight that you lost, your torso seems more defined and above the muffin top you can see a more angular line where the sides of your body stops and the waist begins. I should try a 30 days beat saber workout thing on top of my gym schedule to see how it goes too lmao
>Mentions Dance Dance Revolution >First shows footage of (the far superior) Pump it Up SKOOCH YOU ARE A GAMER YOU CANNOT MAKE THESE MISTAKES. But honestly, once you get past the fact that you're stepping on buttons, DDR and PIU are great workouts, and great ways to make friends. Heck, do well enough and you'll garner a crowd of stunned onlookers, who you can show your YT channel to. NETWORKING!
So I bought a VR set to help with mobility issues after being inspired by this and wow. What a brave new world of technology. Thanks for the inspiration and motivation, Skooch, appreciated this video so much
Remember, Skooch. Muscles weight roughly double the fat's mass. So what seems to be just a small fat loss is actually you losing a good amount of fat and building some muscles. Keep it up mah man!
I didn't think of that, but it makes complete sense. Looking at the before and after, it looked like he lost way more than 8 pounds based on how much flatter his stomach looked.
I never watched you just for League, so compared to most people I’m not really having to adjust to you expanding your content. Can’t wait to see more! Much love Skooch!
You really inspired me with this video to be honest. For me working out has always been hell, even going outside when I don't have a specific task to accomplish feels impossible to me, and it resulted in me almost becoming overweight in the recent times, and I'm not afraid of being slightly overweight really, but this made me worried that if I don't think of how to make losing weight not absolute nightmare it will just keep getting worse, and I really had no idea what to do. And this really made me feel like I might be able to take my weight back under my own control (that is... as soon as I find a job and make enough money for fitness games and a VR set lol, but it made me feel motivated to keep on looking as well! Thank you for the idea man)
If you have a switch ring fit is no joke I’ve gained strength from playing the game regularly. Besides the story mode you can go into the games quick play and do a targeted workout which is very helpful, seriously check it out if possible
I have been at this VR thing on and off for several weeks now. But to know it can actually bring prospects I'm willing to push a bit harder now. Thanks Skooch.
Not gonna lie, I spent a lot of my time playing Just Dance 4 on the Wii. That Skrillex expert song was HARD as hell, but... It was a nice warm up for my (at the time) Yoga Sessions.
seeing that shot of the birthday party reminded me of that time pointcrow was talking about skooch and the only thing he said about him was "boy, that man CAN PARTY." god bless you and wishing you speedy recoveries from hangovers.
Definitely a journey, not a short and quick destination to achieve good fitness! You absolutely hit the nail on the head about this just being part of your journey, and I’m glad to hear that weeks after the test was over, you were still working out :-) good for you!
The end of that video was perfect. Your friend was a wise fucking man. "What is it your do when you feel to lazy to go to the gym, get a good workout." "I don't know, I just have a shit workout." Makes me think of a saying that goes< We all have crappy days, but it doesn't mean we just don't get up in the morning. FUCKING beautiful.
Honestly? Ring fit and VR is probably the most effective combination of games to get fit, aside from maybe something like VR fitness classes or something. Since loads of VR games are good for getting cardio in (I've legitimately seen professional fighters get a decent workout playing Thrill of The Fight), and ring fit is a mix of cardio, and bodyweight strength exercises, and even stretching and warm ups. And that's more than what you'd get even if you just typed into UA-cam "Beginner exercises", plus you're basically able to do it 24/7, because it's fun and they're games. It's the perfect alternative for every kid who never had someone to play tag with them outside, but now has a VR headset as an adult.
Started at 260 pounds and could barely stand for longer than 10 minutes. I started with VR games back in 2018 and played over a 1000 hours of blade and sorcery. In combination with the gym I started losing weight and the loss of weight made the vr games more fun. The VR games helped me exercise and the the exercise unlocked new ways to play VR. Lost 70 pounds in 4 years. VR fitness has helped keep me motivated where I otherwise would not have had the discipline.
I know you mentioned the game in the video, but doing Until You Fall's: Monk of Rokar achievement, that being using the amulet and the knuckles as your two weapons was a pretty decent workout as it turns all attacks into dodge attacks due to lack of blocking.
You could also try adding wrist and ankle weights to your Beat Saber gameplay. Some Rock Lee type shit. You dont realize how heavy 2-3 pounds in your hands feels til you're trying to swing your arms around to breakcore or something.
Love this video. I think fitness is something everyone wants or tries but it's not optimized properly and gets people easily discouraged. Having you validate the difficulty of ringfit is so reassuring. The gamer bod of nerdy adonis is not easily attained but we're all cheering for you. Great video!
All I can add is that for me "Breaking The Habit" in Beat Saber really hit home.. strange experience when you're feeling alive in the virtual world. Also being able to experience this kind of technology with my own eyes made me realise what a journey it all has been.
As a gamer and a gym rat, I would love to get a video game peripheral that can incorporate heavy resistance training into a fitness game. I dream of a world where I can clean and jerk the enemy top laner out of my way!
Honestly, you did an amazing job with a vegas trip and a party night in a 30 day period. I desperately wish I had the time to game like that every night.
Not gonna lie - got quite worried when Skooch said he won't post league content anymore, since that was the main reason I found his channel. After this video I can safely say: Came here for League, staying here for Skooch and his amazing content. Keep it up!
Rhythm games are just the perfect genre to just brainlessly play over and over and over again without it getting boring, and stuff like Beat Saber and DDR where you actually have to move your body to it are just the perfect workout motivation
Ok so for anyone that wants to know, no, the ring fit calorie counter is not saying that you burned only a couple calories, it's saying that you burned a couple KILOCALORIES
bro this is so funny holy shit, I was worried when you said you're leaving league but watching this reminded me that I enjoy your videos because they're funny and not just because they're league videos! Keep it up 👍
I really recommend you playing a VR game called "Paradiddle." Basically, you can play drums there. It has some tutorial levels in a rhytm-game style where. It's very fun and you will physically get tired of it like you're playing Beat Saber. Not to mention it can be used to learn drums, lol.
Hey Skooch, thanks for bringing "Mothergunship:Forge" to my attention. Bought it right away! THIS is the kind of game I bought VR for, and I cant belive there are not many more like it!
In the same line as Beat Saber - I love love love Synth Riders. Built in mod support, multiplayer, a more intuitive gameplay than beat sabers in my opinion, it's just a really fun rhythm game
If these last two videos are the kind of new content you make after league then you're going to absolutely blow up in 2023 man. Extremely well made and entertaining. Also helps I'm obsessed with VR rn too
Thrill of the fight is definitely one of the best games to lose weight, it's rough and so realistic. VR Workout was also very hard to do, but less fun.
A friend of mine always played just dance for exercise. I always played it to an almost competitive level, so yeah it is a fitness game. Just really try doing "Rasputin" 3 times in a row
Oh and I've got the secret sauce for burning calories playing video games. Get this... Find a game you really, really love... play it for 24 hours straight, no breaks. Your eyes will cry, your fingers will die- but you'll burn something about 1,350 calories? (Depends on your personal BMR.) You can go on baby difficulty and drink flavored water. If you do this for 3 days straight you'll actually begin to drop weight extremely fast, because your body will finally shut the fk up and eat the fat cells it's always like "Oh I'll store it for emergency energy" ........ Just becareful afterwards. No sense dropping weight, then because you're so hungry... you eat enough to put it back on. Big mistake people make and it leads to the whole "If you lose weight this way, you'll just get it back after" .... because fkin duh, before this you'd eat a burger, now you're eating 3 because being full feels so good.
Literally just commenting because idk what else to do to maybe help the algorithm or something. Crappy reason but the video is dope, and losing 2 pounds a week is an incredible pace for weight loss, especially for someone actively drinking. I'm blown away!
got fit playing beat saber. need to do more of it. top 3 game of all time IMO! I used my school Vive when beat saber came out(holy molly the controllers were heavy in hind sight) clocked about 50 hours on the school headset only playing about 25-30 mins a day. then I got a Rift S! this was the turning point in my skill and achievements. having more time to play VR on MY OWN TIME was amazing. I probably clocked 7+ hours a week that year on the school computer and my own. got more into rock climbing and weened off and eventually only played like once or twice a week. but at this point I was playing all expert+ songs and 7-8 Star songs(difficulty rating that is used by modded maps) this was truly the most fun I've ever had in gaming, and once my friends started playing it we started lan partying mainly for beat saber. being able to compete with my friends and watch each other grow was one of the best things about it. it was around 2-3 years after I started that I got my Valve Index!!! so much better in every way(aside from the heavy controllers) this made me fall even more in love with VR and beat saber. one thing led to another and I now own a rift cv1 JUST for beat saber. and I use the index for everything else. I now stay in the top %8 of comp players in beat saber just playing songs that are fun and challenging. vr is amazing and I'd say its played a major part of me keeping a healthy body and physique. keep having fun and improving. if you give yourself the time you will get healthier just by having fun. you'l break the 170s I know it BUILD THE GAMER BOD!!!
Nice improvement, hopefully you keep going! Personally if I was doing to gaming workouts I would definitely do ring fit because it has a variety of workouts.
Loved this video, you weren't lying when you said you had a lot more to bring after quitting league ! The editing and the structure of the video makes it feel like a video game, which is fitting to the theme. Keep it up !
I love Beat Saber. I remember not liking it when I first got it and I played it once for maybe an hour and didn't touch it for months. Then I figured I'd get the 20 hours in to get my moneys worth out of it, and once I actually noticed my progress I started having fun and ever since then I've been addicted. Then I figured out what ranked maps were and now I'm very good at the game, fairly high in the leaderboards and still having a lot of fun
I did not expect this kind of motivational speech near the end, but i really appreciate it. This video was delightful and i was hooked from start to finish, where usually i watch most videos in "portions" spread out across several days. And when you did the final comparison you say that the difference wasn't that much but i disagree; i think there was a very noticeable difference between your "start picture" and your "end picture", i am honestly surprised by exactly how big of a change you made over only 30 days. Seeing the comparison especially makes me feel much more motivated about exercizing, myself. Thanks, Skooch! Thanks, Andrew!
Thanks for this! I'm def trying this once I finally get a VR headset and get more fitness games, I bet this'll be really fun! I hate exercising and going outside, so this is a good start for me. As they say, a bad workout is better than no workout :3
Even as someone that works out every other day Ringfit Adventure still felt like a chore to me It's not a game at all but rather a fitness app with an interactive interface to "ease" your time like watching a movie while in the gym but you surely still just do a normal workout with the illusion of a game behind it.
You should definitely play a game called ragnarock, it's like a guitar hero for VR where you play drums, it's one of the most fun games on VR, I find it even more engaging than beat saber.
I gotta say, what you took from Vincent's comment was truly a good thing to remember. You don't have to 100% things all the time; just doing a little bit of something every day that you want to accomplish is better than trying to do it all at once or not at all. Also, as far as fitness games, I was a Xbox Kinect enjoyer, so Kinect Adventures was an absolute banger game with cool graphics, fun rewards, and some serious sweaty games if you went all out.
Imagine a ring fit style game but it's an RPG where every time you attack, you have to do an exercise that is similar to the attack, like a jumping slash would be like one jumping squat. Honestly, just a bit less focus on the intensity and more focus on feeling like you're actually doing the things a character like Link would do.
I love lifting weights, but hate running. I just got a VR headset, and Beat saber is a great cardio workout. The Weeknd tracks have you doing a ton of squats, leans, and overhead rotations. I think I'll be using it as a warm-up before hitting the gym to lift. Ring fit is no joke, it legitimately leaves me drenched.
Even playing normal games in VR uses more energy. Even a normal shooter you have to stand and turn, and ducking behind cover. All things you do with buttons on normal games.
dear god i cant imagine playing beatsaber with a hangover. still thanks for showing some new games skooch; even if ring fit will most likely cause me to collapse.
Dude, I did the same thing over lockdown. When I started, I could barely get through 15 minutes without feeling like I was going to pass tf out. Within about 2 months, I was going 2 and 3 hours, just trying to beat my high scores on my 30-minute long playlists (I used a BeatSaber mod that allowed me to make chonky-boy workouts). In about 6-7 months, when also watching what I ate and doing intermittent fasting, I'd lost a total of about 60lbs. Freaking BeatSaber is HELLA underrated for how good it is to use as a workout. I also started trying to learn dances from back in the 90s/early 2000s (my main workout playlist was made up of Britney bangers). I then got COVID... then long COVID... which caused all that work to get coughed right out the window. I gained about 40lbs of that 60lbs. back because I could barely make it up off the toilet without feeling like my lungs were being squished, so full-on workouts were damned-near impossible for a while (I was thankful that the vaccine helped it to not be worse). T-T The process begins again, but, this time, I'm also going into an actual gym, as well, and getting a FitBit, with a goal of dropping to the healthy weight I was aiming for originally and KEEPING it off. Defo incorporating BeatSaber back in, though. I loved it. Again, I tell y'all, you're REALLY sleeping on BeatSaber (and other games like PowerBeats and SuperHot; heck, even some homebrew games made in VRChat) for fitness. You just forget you're working out- you just want that high score and to beat your last calorie burn goal. The next thing you know, there's a puddle of sweat below you and you're squatting like champ through massive song sets when a single squat used to make you feel like a fight to the death with gravity. Highly recommend.
I was so offended when you stopped league content, but now I realize that I just like watching you, not the content. This is a good change for me, you've inspired me to cut drastically back on League. I was hard-core addicted I realize now, and it feels good to see someone else enjoying life without league. Much love brother, keep it up.
your 1 ,month result was actually pretty good, I dislike traditional cardio and workouts but ill give vr fitness a shot for cardio, and some basic strength training with dumbells for my other workouts.
Skooch on his way to be an example of what leaving league of legends does to somebody
Average non league player can do 30 days of exercise in a week right?
I lost 20 pounds and got on my schools football team when I quit.
If he's been recording a bunch of a videos all this time, then he has a great recipe for success brewing here and now. Videos on a variety of topics, with a backlog of 6 years of different videos for a very popular game? Pretty good.
@@acatwithwiskers9273 I found an actual living girlfriend one year after deleting Dota2 in 2013. Such statistics XD
Feels like leaving a toxic relationship
Though I am an avid league player, the new league-free content with a similar format is refreshing and quite fun to watch. I was not a subscriber before, but I will subscribe because of this change.
I used to like the league Content but he didnt seem like he was in it anymore so I completely agree. But he seems so happy and creative now that I'm subbing as well.
I agree. I started to watch league content, not league gameplay, that's why I mainly followed people like skooch and MagikarpUsedFly. And now that I know them, I much prefer any video they apply themselves than the dry and straight forward let's play.
I just wish more lol players would appreciate the content than the game so the creators don't suffer for it.
Here's my take on Ring Fit Adventure!
If you felt like the game was too hard, you probably had the difficulty too high! You can manually turn down the difficulty in the settings to make sure you're not overexterting yourself.
I also agree that Ring Fit is much more workout-focused, but the way I see it is that instead of just doing reps in silence, the game kind of distracts you from thinking about the fact that you're working out while you're doing it. If that makes sense. And it keeps track of your workout for you so you dont have to think about it while you do it. Hope that helps!
I also thing the other games are mainly cardio, which yes burn more calories but ring fit focuses on strength and muscle building, which help increase metabolism over time. So using both intermittently might be the best thing to do!
I'm gonna add "I didn't have a collar on my neck so I don't know why I was acting like a bitch" to my vocabulary. Thank you Skooch for another enlightening and hilarious video 😂
I personally love ringfit, but it's definitely not a game to be underestimated. There is no shame in starting at a lower difficulty. There is no shortage of videos on youtube featuring people who crank the difficulty and barely beat the first level. Pace yourselves, my friends, and have fun with the RPG where you'd better even lift, bro.
Why am i hearing zyzz music?
I go to an actual fucking gym and do actual weightlifting and ringfit kicks my ass. That game was made by Satan himself.
I love it and yes !! I made it super easy and crank up the difficulty super slowly. Doing that I've been playing it multiple times a week for two years and always have fun. And I put on enough muscle that I added weight lifting after a few months because it felt good to exercise at this point.
>leaves league
>immediately starts getting fit
Nature is healing
I love how he says the changes in his body wasn't that drastic, but he very CLEARLY gained abs and got thinner than the previous picture. I can't be the only one seeing this development
I lost 44 pounds from playing VR Games, especially from Thrill of the fight, Les Mills and Blaston! VR Games definitely helps you to lose weight!
I was waiting for him to show TOTF, that game is amazing for fitness (if you box somewhat well)
+1 to this comment. Skooch probably doesn't know about Thrill of the fight. THE most physically intense game on VR!
I was so mad he didn't play TOTF. Its the only VR game I play because the exercise gets nuts. I use custom settings now where I increase their aggro alot but set their defense to the default normal defense. Also slow down their punch speed. This means I have to actively dodge hits to survive, and burn insane calories.
Can I ask which VR you used?
@@missbeaussie Quest 2
There's this VR mmo I've always wanted to try called A Township Tale where you physically have to do everything you want to do in the game. Want to gather wood? Go swing your arms to chop down a tree then swing them some more to chop up the wood into pieces you can carry. As someone who's been 200+ lbs for as long as I can remember, it's a very difficult game to play.
However, watching this video inspired me to give it another try.
So thanks Skooch. This was exactly what I needed. Keep up the good work!
Please update us with how it goes! Good luck!!
Hey its been almost a year now. I hope the return to that game was successful!
@@CardiacGolem I didn’t get around to it. Other games and problems held my attention so I forgot all about it.
man i hope this goes well, we are here for you lol
Bro, I thought that would just be a meme but MAN you've actually made a lot of progress, your body improvement is actually visible during some of the workouts (in the switch fit shit) and on the bodychecks, congratulations.
And your friend is right, you don't actually need motivation for fitness, you need discipline and recognize your own everyday-small-sucssesses (if that is even a word). You might not become shreded and bulked but is a pretty good cardio
I actually quite like Just Dance. It can be really fun. I always look silly playing it, but it gets me sweating hard, especially the Extreme dances
I have a few friends on twitch who use Beat Saber for workouts (Cottonsmiles in particular) and have lost LOTS of weight. I've been wanting to work out, but I always run into the same traps you talked about. I guess I thought I was the only one who thought those things, so the transparency in this video is incredibly motivating; I don't feel so alone. Thank you THANK YOU for being who you are. Also, Synth Riders is AMAZING.. another visual music type game. I think you'll love it. Cheers!
Synth riders remind me of audio shield. It was a great game until it lost the function to use UA-cam to create "maps" (due to legal reasons).
I did this for 2 months in June or so with a weight vest and beatsaber and lost 40lbs! Custom songs really are intense, if you have vr I recommend it’s a really good way to train without being bored, I did about a 2 hour session twice a week, with some portion control with my food and kicked my body’s butt. Good luck out there gamers.
I don't sweat when i play beat.. I dont like it.. I love supernatural in.comparison!!
The real difference between Ring Fit and most VR is that RFA has a lot more resistance exercise, where most VR games don't unless it's forcing you to squat. The controllers weigh nothing on purpose, most of your movement is within a comparatively limited scope, and it's a lot of pretty standard movement. VR might not be bad for weight loss in the long run but RFA might actually build some muscle.
Advice for people interested in Ring Fit Adventure, if you feel like things are way too difficult, manually lower the difficulty a fair amount, the game often lowers it in increments of 1 or 2 points but if it feels difficult I would recommend to lower it by 5 whole points.
Ring Fit in my experience, sets difficulty so that you can have an intensive half hour training that will kick your ass or 20 minutes of training that will leave you a bit winded. But if you go for a longer session then using a lower difficulty setting is a better choice.
The training level mainly will increase the amount of reps you need to perform for each attack. This can change absolutely nothing on some work out moves, and an absolute nightmare on moves such as doing 40 squats. If anything, it will probably just make your workout longer. If you untimatly feel like you are making little to no progress, dont feel guilty lowering the level because for some people it may be better to simply do shorter reps on your moves to experience more progression rather than "increasing your work out load"
@@KairuSan1 increases the amount of reps and the length of time you have to do the exercises, which is actually a big deal, doing a squat slower actually makes it harder in most cases.
@@imatiu No wonder my ass hurts
Man I'm proud of ya! for real, its not easy to motivate yourself for such an amount of time. I personally find it really hard.
I will say that I am someone who is absolutely addicted to music. I am listening to music all times of the day. I say this as someone who's come to this from the angle of being more invested in the music. I played what I enjoyed for hours on end in Beat Saber to the point of sometimes 6 hour sessions after a full shift at work. I never played for the active nature but the ability to embody the music. Despite only doing it for my love of music I felt the strength and endurance from daily consistent play. While it can be a good method of workout, it can be insanely strenuous. I suggest it only to those who love music as that love, much like my own, is what can push you through pain and fatigue. That is , of course, if you wish to use it as a method of being healthy. For any form of a healthy routine it is arguably more important to be invested through a deeper seated want than just a necessity. Much like you said, seeing a meta can push you to do something even if you don't find it enjoyable. Finding a method that is enjoyable can be more effective as it will keep up the heathy habit over a short term efficient method.
Best wishes and hope you can continue to enjoy what ever you decide to purse my friend.
This is so true! I always struggled to find exercise I liked. I forced myself to do cardio, but always hated it and would fall off. I found out I love lifting weights, and have kept to it! I just got VR, and I'm in love with Beat Saber (I'm a huge music listener like yourself). The Weeknd tracks make you squat, lean, and do lots of arm rotations. I'll absolutely be adding a 20-30 minute session as a gym warmup!
In the side by side, You can tell you that you became a little more toned for sure.
As someone whos been trying to get fit via mostly dancing in VRC and Beatsaber myself but stuggles due to bad joints, i feel the pains and struggles man. Yall did great and this is lowkey inspiring to keep at it.
My favorite VR workout game is Ragnarock. It's kinda like beat saber, but you are a viking drummer on a long boat and racing other people to the sound of rock and metal songs.
I haven't worked out in years. I felt like just giving up on keeping up with my body. My knees tap out quickly when making them move too much. This has given me a new idea that I think will work. Thanks Skooch
Good on you Skooch! I used to do Beat Saber daily for a while when I first got VR, now I want to get back into it after watching this. Hopefully someday I will reach peak Gamer Physique.
Actually I can see a difference in the weight that you lost, your torso seems more defined and above the muffin top you can see a more angular line where the sides of your body stops and the waist begins. I should try a 30 days beat saber workout thing on top of my gym schedule to see how it goes too lmao
>Mentions Dance Dance Revolution
>First shows footage of (the far superior) Pump it Up
SKOOCH YOU ARE A GAMER YOU CANNOT MAKE THESE MISTAKES.
But honestly, once you get past the fact that you're stepping on buttons, DDR and PIU are great workouts, and great ways to make friends. Heck, do well enough and you'll garner a crowd of stunned onlookers, who you can show your YT channel to. NETWORKING!
TBH, Skooch proved that if you kept doing this, with a good diet, you can get a decent physique
So I bought a VR set to help with mobility issues after being inspired by this and wow. What a brave new world of technology. Thanks for the inspiration and motivation, Skooch, appreciated this video so much
Remember, Skooch. Muscles weight roughly double the fat's mass. So what seems to be just a small fat loss is actually you losing a good amount of fat and building some muscles. Keep it up mah man!
I didn't think of that, but it makes complete sense. Looking at the before and after, it looked like he lost way more than 8 pounds based on how much flatter his stomach looked.
I never watched you just for League, so compared to most people I’m not really having to adjust to you expanding your content. Can’t wait to see more! Much love Skooch!
You have a visible improvement in muscle tone in your pecks and abs. If you keep up the VR exercise you'll keep making gains.
You really inspired me with this video to be honest. For me working out has always been hell, even going outside when I don't have a specific task to accomplish feels impossible to me, and it resulted in me almost becoming overweight in the recent times, and I'm not afraid of being slightly overweight really, but this made me worried that if I don't think of how to make losing weight not absolute nightmare it will just keep getting worse, and I really had no idea what to do. And this really made me feel like I might be able to take my weight back under my own control (that is... as soon as I find a job and make enough money for fitness games and a VR set lol, but it made me feel motivated to keep on looking as well! Thank you for the idea man)
If you have a switch ring fit is no joke I’ve gained strength from playing the game regularly. Besides the story mode you can go into the games quick play and do a targeted workout which is very helpful, seriously check it out if possible
Do you have cash app? I'll send you the money for a quest 2. I'd offer this privately but youtube doesn't have DM's :(
I have been at this VR thing on and off for several weeks now. But to know it can actually bring prospects I'm willing to push a bit harder now. Thanks Skooch.
Not gonna lie, I spent a lot of my time playing Just Dance 4 on the Wii. That Skrillex expert song was HARD as hell, but... It was a nice warm up for my (at the time) Yoga Sessions.
Quits League, gets fit, mans must be seeing colors for the first time
seeing that shot of the birthday party reminded me of that time pointcrow was talking about skooch and the only thing he said about him was "boy, that man CAN PARTY." god bless you and wishing you speedy recoveries from hangovers.
"Skooch is kinda motivating me to get into shape" isn't a sentence I expected to say at the start of a new year...
Good vid Skooch!
20:56 OMG I really needed to hear this Skooch thanks so much!!
Definitely a journey, not a short and quick destination to achieve good fitness! You absolutely hit the nail on the head about this just being part of your journey, and I’m glad to hear that weeks after the test was over, you were still working out :-) good for you!
The end of that video was perfect. Your friend was a wise fucking man. "What is it your do when you feel to lazy to go to the gym, get a good workout." "I don't know, I just have a shit workout." Makes me think of a saying that goes< We all have crappy days, but it doesn't mean we just don't get up in the morning. FUCKING beautiful.
Honestly? Ring fit and VR is probably the most effective combination of games to get fit, aside from maybe something like VR fitness classes or something.
Since loads of VR games are good for getting cardio in (I've legitimately seen professional fighters get a decent workout playing Thrill of The Fight), and ring fit is a mix of cardio, and bodyweight strength exercises, and even stretching and warm ups.
And that's more than what you'd get even if you just typed into UA-cam "Beginner exercises", plus you're basically able to do it 24/7, because it's fun and they're games.
It's the perfect alternative for every kid who never had someone to play tag with them outside, but now has a VR headset as an adult.
Started at 260 pounds and could barely stand for longer than 10 minutes. I started with VR games back in 2018 and played over a 1000 hours of blade and sorcery. In combination with the gym I started losing weight and the loss of weight made the vr games more fun. The VR games helped me exercise and the the exercise unlocked new ways to play VR. Lost 70 pounds in 4 years. VR fitness has helped keep me motivated where I otherwise would not have had the discipline.
Ahhhh so Skooch had his Training Arc
U Slay boi go gettem
already on that grind...
skooch is grinding hard
I know you mentioned the game in the video, but doing Until You Fall's: Monk of Rokar achievement, that being using the amulet and the knuckles as your two weapons was a pretty decent workout as it turns all attacks into dodge attacks due to lack of blocking.
OH HECK YEAH I love this video !!!!! Good job Skooch 🎉
ty bootz you are cool and swag
You could also try adding wrist and ankle weights to your Beat Saber gameplay. Some Rock Lee type shit. You dont realize how heavy 2-3 pounds in your hands feels til you're trying to swing your arms around to breakcore or something.
Love this video. I think fitness is something everyone wants or tries but it's not optimized properly and gets people easily discouraged. Having you validate the difficulty of ringfit is so reassuring.
The gamer bod of nerdy adonis is not easily attained but we're all cheering for you. Great video!
12:45
Skooch: "This lil sh*tbag right here, guess what his weakness is", "that's right, SQUATS"
Me: lmao
All I can add is that for me "Breaking The Habit" in Beat Saber really hit home.. strange experience when you're feeling alive in the virtual world.
Also being able to experience this kind of technology with my own eyes made me realise what a journey it all has been.
The amount of progress you made on bestsaber is insane! And your transformation was incredible! Keep it up bro.
Chad Skootch, Swole skootch
As a gamer and a gym rat, I would love to get a video game peripheral that can incorporate heavy resistance training into a fitness game. I dream of a world where I can clean and jerk the enemy top laner out of my way!
Honestly, you did an amazing job with a vegas trip and a party night in a 30 day period. I desperately wish I had the time to game like that every night.
Not gonna lie - got quite worried when Skooch said he won't post league content anymore, since that was the main reason I found his channel. After this video I can safely say: Came here for League, staying here for Skooch and his amazing content. Keep it up!
Rhythm games are just the perfect genre to just brainlessly play over and over and over again without it getting boring, and stuff like Beat Saber and DDR where you actually have to move your body to it are just the perfect workout motivation
the "welcome to the c*m zone" beat in the beginning got me to stay
Ok so for anyone that wants to know, no, the ring fit calorie counter is not saying that you burned only a couple calories, it's saying that you burned a couple KILOCALORIES
13:08 ring fit adventure is how i find out Skooch out here hauling that dumptruck
bro this is so funny holy shit, I was worried when you said you're leaving league but watching this reminded me that I enjoy your videos because they're funny and not just because they're league videos!
Keep it up 👍
I really recommend you playing a VR game called "Paradiddle." Basically, you can play drums there. It has some tutorial levels in a rhytm-game style where. It's very fun and you will physically get tired of it like you're playing Beat Saber. Not to mention it can be used to learn drums, lol.
Audio Trip and Pistol Whip are the best workouts I've ever had.
Audio Trip is by far the best rythem based game, and the only thing that tops it for workout intensity is Thrill of the Fight
"There's obviously better and more META ways to lose weight... ..."
Wait, so this is bronze theory crafting but like for fitness. Count me in!
There are a lot of fun rhythm games for VR, Synth Riders, Audio Trip, and Pistol Whip. I find also get my heart rate up.
Hey Skooch, thanks for bringing "Mothergunship:Forge" to my attention. Bought it right away!
THIS is the kind of game I bought VR for, and I cant belive there are not many more like it!
Living in London has made me take my hobbies for granted. I do both fencing and longsword and I know I need to be in a city to keep my hobbies.
In the same line as Beat Saber - I love love love Synth Riders. Built in mod support, multiplayer, a more intuitive gameplay than beat sabers in my opinion, it's just a really fun rhythm game
I recommend thrill of the fight if you haven't already, one of the best vr game and burns calories like nothing else
If these last two videos are the kind of new content you make after league then you're going to absolutely blow up in 2023 man.
Extremely well made and entertaining. Also helps I'm obsessed with VR rn too
Thrill of the fight is definitely one of the best games to lose weight, it's rough and so realistic.
VR Workout was also very hard to do, but less fun.
A friend of mine always played just dance for exercise. I always played it to an almost competitive level, so yeah it is a fitness game. Just really try doing "Rasputin" 3 times in a row
Oh and I've got the secret sauce for burning calories playing video games. Get this...
Find a game you really, really love... play it for 24 hours straight, no breaks. Your eyes will cry, your fingers will die- but you'll burn something about 1,350 calories? (Depends on your personal BMR.)
You can go on baby difficulty and drink flavored water.
If you do this for 3 days straight you'll actually begin to drop weight extremely fast, because your body will finally shut the fk up and eat the fat cells it's always like "Oh I'll store it for emergency energy"
........ Just becareful afterwards. No sense dropping weight, then because you're so hungry... you eat enough to put it back on. Big mistake people make and it leads to the whole "If you lose weight this way, you'll just get it back after" .... because fkin duh, before this you'd eat a burger, now you're eating 3 because being full feels so good.
Nintendo Spartan #714 here.
Don't mess with us - we speedrun Ring Fit Adventure.
Literally just commenting because idk what else to do to maybe help the algorithm or something. Crappy reason but the video is dope, and losing 2 pounds a week is an incredible pace for weight loss, especially for someone actively drinking. I'm blown away!
I just remembered the minecraft project you started some time ago, I'd love to see it continued!
Every fps game already makes me sweat (literally not figuratively). Also your "most our of shape I've ever been" is pretty legit.
got fit playing beat saber. need to do more of it. top 3 game of all time IMO!
I used my school Vive when beat saber came out(holy molly the controllers were heavy in hind sight) clocked about 50 hours on the school headset only playing about 25-30 mins a day. then I got a Rift S! this was the turning point in my skill and achievements. having more time to play VR on MY OWN TIME was amazing. I probably clocked 7+ hours a week that year on the school computer and my own. got more into rock climbing and weened off and eventually only played like once or twice a week. but at this point I was playing all expert+ songs and 7-8 Star songs(difficulty rating that is used by modded maps) this was truly the most fun I've ever had in gaming, and once my friends started playing it we started lan partying mainly for beat saber. being able to compete with my friends and watch each other grow was one of the best things about it. it was around 2-3 years after I started that I got my Valve Index!!! so much better in every way(aside from the heavy controllers) this made me fall even more in love with VR and beat saber. one thing led to another and I now own a rift cv1 JUST for beat saber. and I use the index for everything else. I now stay in the top %8 of comp players in beat saber just playing songs that are fun and challenging. vr is amazing and I'd say its played a major part of me keeping a healthy body and physique.
keep having fun and improving. if you give yourself the time you will get healthier just by having fun. you'l break the 170s I know it BUILD THE GAMER BOD!!!
Nice improvement, hopefully you keep going! Personally if I was doing to gaming workouts I would definitely do ring fit because it has a variety of workouts.
Loved this video, you weren't lying when you said you had a lot more to bring after quitting league ! The editing and the structure of the video makes it feel like a video game, which is fitting to the theme. Keep it up !
I love Beat Saber. I remember not liking it when I first got it and I played it once for maybe an hour and didn't touch it for months. Then I figured I'd get the 20 hours in to get my moneys worth out of it, and once I actually noticed my progress I started having fun and ever since then I've been addicted. Then I figured out what ranked maps were and now I'm very good at the game, fairly high in the leaderboards and still having a lot of fun
I did not expect this kind of motivational speech near the end, but i really appreciate it. This video was delightful and i was hooked from start to finish, where usually i watch most videos in "portions" spread out across several days. And when you did the final comparison you say that the difference wasn't that much but i disagree; i think there was a very noticeable difference between your "start picture" and your "end picture", i am honestly surprised by exactly how big of a change you made over only 30 days. Seeing the comparison especially makes me feel much more motivated about exercizing, myself. Thanks, Skooch! Thanks, Andrew!
Thanks for this! I'm def trying this once I finally get a VR headset and get more fitness games, I bet this'll be really fun! I hate exercising and going outside, so this is a good start for me. As they say, a bad workout is better than no workout :3
These new videos and format are exactly what I've been needing out of a UA-cam recently. Another banger!
Even as someone that works out every other day Ringfit Adventure still felt like a chore to me
It's not a game at all but rather a fitness app with an interactive interface to "ease" your time like watching a movie while in the gym but you surely still just do a normal workout with the illusion of a game behind it.
The future of gaming is so cool. You quit league and lost weight just like that. Incredible.
You should definitely play a game called ragnarock, it's like a guitar hero for VR where you play drums, it's one of the most fun games on VR, I find it even more engaging than beat saber.
Bonus kudos points for shouting out Mothergunship forge. Massively underrated vr game 👌
I gotta say, what you took from Vincent's comment was truly a good thing to remember. You don't have to 100% things all the time; just doing a little bit of something every day that you want to accomplish is better than trying to do it all at once or not at all. Also, as far as fitness games, I was a Xbox Kinect enjoyer, so Kinect Adventures was an absolute banger game with cool graphics, fun rewards, and some serious sweaty games if you went all out.
Imagine a ring fit style game but it's an RPG where every time you attack, you have to do an exercise that is similar to the attack, like a jumping slash would be like one jumping squat. Honestly, just a bit less focus on the intensity and more focus on feeling like you're actually doing the things a character like Link would do.
I love lifting weights, but hate running. I just got a VR headset, and Beat saber is a great cardio workout. The Weeknd tracks have you doing a ton of squats, leans, and overhead rotations. I think I'll be using it as a warm-up before hitting the gym to lift.
Ring fit is no joke, it legitimately leaves me drenched.
Even playing normal games in VR uses more energy.
Even a normal shooter you have to stand and turn, and ducking behind cover. All things you do with buttons on normal games.
dear god i cant imagine playing beatsaber with a hangover. still thanks for showing some new games skooch; even if ring fit will most likely cause me to collapse.
You can see he's slimmed down around the abs, very good awesome vid Skooch
Skooch going for the sett body
I'm exercising in the Dead Men Walking game world of VRChat every day for at least 40 minutes. It's mostly pretty intense but fun.
Variety Skooch > League Skooch. Love to see it
19:29 jokes on you, there's a sexy scooch calendar out there.
You inspired me to take up my husband's offer to play beat saber on his headset. Because apparently, Just Dance isn't meta anymore.
Dude, I did the same thing over lockdown. When I started, I could barely get through 15 minutes without feeling like I was going to pass tf out. Within about 2 months, I was going 2 and 3 hours, just trying to beat my high scores on my 30-minute long playlists (I used a BeatSaber mod that allowed me to make chonky-boy workouts).
In about 6-7 months, when also watching what I ate and doing intermittent fasting, I'd lost a total of about 60lbs. Freaking BeatSaber is HELLA underrated for how good it is to use as a workout. I also started trying to learn dances from back in the 90s/early 2000s (my main workout playlist was made up of Britney bangers). I then got COVID... then long COVID... which caused all that work to get coughed right out the window. I gained about 40lbs of that 60lbs. back because I could barely make it up off the toilet without feeling like my lungs were being squished, so
full-on workouts were damned-near impossible for a while (I was thankful that the vaccine helped it to not be worse). T-T
The process begins again, but, this time, I'm also going into an actual gym, as well, and getting a FitBit, with a goal of dropping to the healthy weight I was aiming for originally and KEEPING it off. Defo incorporating BeatSaber back in, though. I loved it.
Again, I tell y'all, you're REALLY sleeping on BeatSaber (and other games like PowerBeats and SuperHot; heck, even some homebrew games made in VRChat) for fitness. You just forget you're working out- you just want that high score and to beat your last calorie burn goal. The next thing you know, there's a puddle of sweat below you and you're squatting like champ through massive song sets when a single squat used to make you feel like a fight to the death with gravity. Highly recommend.
I was so offended when you stopped league content, but now I realize that I just like watching you, not the content. This is a good change for me, you've inspired me to cut drastically back on League. I was hard-core addicted I realize now, and it feels good to see someone else enjoying life without league. Much love brother, keep it up.
your 1 ,month result was actually pretty good, I dislike traditional cardio and workouts but ill give vr fitness a shot for cardio, and some basic strength training with dumbells for my other workouts.
18:27 imagine some walking in on him swaying lmao