My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise • Hacker News Board

Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise

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Post by fatnoah » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 3:37 PM UTC

alexknowshtml wrote: post #191

I'm 38. Never had a workout or fitness routine in my entire life except for a few brief and unsustained periods of working with a trainer, but quit. Last May I bought a Quest 2 specifically to try Supernatural, a mix of Beatsabre with a Pelaton-style experience with pre-recorded song-driven sessions. I did one 5 song session (20 mins or so) and for the first time in my life I was dripping with sweat and thought to my…

I'll +1 the quality of the workout with Supernatural. I was a heavy XBox fitness user and loved the workouts available, along with the use of the Kinect to gameify and make sure I wasn't cheating. Supernatural offers the same thing to me. Workouts are intense, hard, and fun somehow. It took a little work to make sure I was timing things right and making the right motion for my moves to count, but the result is fun. To make it even better, I connect bluetooth audio to my home theater AVR and enjoy a much better music experience to get pumped up.

Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 5:57 PM UTC

jozzy-james wrote: post #239

beeskneecaps wrote: post #237

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haha thanks. Yeah I'm trying to make RR the next big thing. Near zero load times, no suit required for haptic feedback, two 576MP cameras, the list goes on. The birds are still obviously drones though.

> two 576MP cameras my model must be defective :(

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Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise

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Post by fouc » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 6:02 PM UTC

beeskneecaps wrote: post #237

fouc wrote: post #81

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RR.. Real Reality? Funny. I'm gonna remember that one.

haha thanks. Yeah I'm trying to make RR the next big thing. Near zero load times, no suit required for haptic feedback, two 576MP cameras, the list goes on. The birds are still obviously drones though.

Interestingly the figure for "the eye has a resolution of 576 megapixels" comes from this article:

https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html

Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise

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Post by WalterBright » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 1:21 AM UTC

makeset wrote: post #266

WalterBright wrote: post #124

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Nah, weightlifting is the most boring. Running for me means I'm working in my head on my projects. It's the most productive part of my work day.

I don't get either of you, at all. I greatly enjoy both. I am not a serious runner, just ~20mi/week for health, but being outside, getting into that zone, the mental space for work/etc. as you mention (though math gets difficult with pace), or just listening to audiobooks as I watch the scenery change, it's great. Weight training, on the other hand, is very technical. Mesocycles planned months out, tweaked as targets…

I guess weight training is a means to an end that I want - health and fitness. It is not an end in itself, I don't enjoy it, and discovered that I cannot lift while thinking about something else.

I understand that if you love weight training for its own sake, the calculus is completely different.

Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise

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Post by silexia » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:48 PM UTC

tifadg1 wrote: post #143

zfnmxt wrote: post #120

VR exercise is a remarkably poor allocation of time (if your interest is physical fitness, efficiently). It also leaves out the most important adaptation of all: strength. Effective training (not exercising) requires a progression model. That is, on some time frame you must exceed your performance at the end of that time frame when compared to the beginning of the time frame. This must be done in some measurable way-…

On the offchance you're not trolling, these are quite the outdated views you're holding. It's fine to muck around doing 120kg squats if that's your thing, but you're continuously putting yourself to increased risk of injury as the years go by and you're increasing weight. To mitigate that risk you then have to start doing additional warm up, foam rolls, recovery routines. Oh and lets not forget that most people can't…

I did weight lifting for years in my 20's... I could squat 500+ lbs, bench 325 lbs several times, do 25 consecutive pullups with a wide grip or narrow grip, etc. I looked like a bodybuilder.

Then I did Crossfit for several years in my late twenties... more cardio, a bit less weights.

Then rock climbing for several years in my early thirties.

Now I ride my bike competitively on Zwift and have tons of fun doing it.

All exercise is good. If I could go back in time, I would greatly reduce the amount of weight lifting I did and focus more on fun cardio centric activities. You get all the muscle you need from those.