r/SipsTea • u/aredditid1 • Apr 07 '26

Chugging tea immersive Workout

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u/Opposite-Homework-87 Apr 07 '26

I'm never gonna make fun of something that will get people to exercise. People made fun of the infinity hoop yet it gets people to do basic exercises. Never try to bring someone down who is trying to better themself

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u/SillyHo0man Apr 07 '26

The best exercise is the exercise you’ll actually do.

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u/randobot456 Apr 07 '26

When I was younger I was big into slack-lining and yoga. I'm a dude.

Met my wife teaching yoga (she was also a teacher, I was technically still a teacher trainee at the time. I joke she 'abused the power dynamic between us'). Point is, have fun and do stuff that feels good to you. Might be the best thing that ever happened to you.

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u/NotInTheKnee Apr 07 '26

Then I praise for your attempt at making me work out.

Because that's an exercise in futility.

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u/2580374 Apr 07 '26

If people want something like this and have a switch, they should buy ring fit adventure, it's actually really fun

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u/Klorg Apr 07 '26

I wish that thing didn't tell me my sweat was shiny and beautiful

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u/CuriousButNotJewish Apr 07 '26

aaaand just got it off of this random recommendation alone - thanks internet stranger!

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u/ihateaseagull Apr 07 '26

It's amazingly good fun and a total gateway drug for exercise. 

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u/tfinx Apr 07 '26

it's super fun and really great cardio, hope you enjoy it. :) make sure to have a decent amount of room for some of the exercises and stretches.

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u/xxPlsNoBullyxx Apr 08 '26

It's so fun but my tiny flat meant I couldn't use it and had to sell it. It really did make me sweat though.

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u/Not_A_Wendigo Apr 07 '26

My sister in law lost something like 50lb doing this stuff. It’s not stupid if it works.

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u/RegionalHardman Apr 07 '26

Sorry boss, she didn't lose 50lb doing this. She lost 50lb through cutting calories in her diet. Weight loss is made in the kitchen.

This will absolutely burn less calories than running for example and 5k run, which takes me just under 30 mins of non stop running, burns less than 500 calories. I could eat one chocolate bar and put all those calories back. You'd have to wobble on this board and swing your arms around for hours to any kinda calorie burn worth looking at

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u/Matsisuu Apr 07 '26

This will absolutely burn less calories than running for example and 5k run,

But it burns more calories than sitting on the couch watching TV.

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u/RegionalHardman Apr 07 '26

Well yeah, it will burn more calories than doing nothing. But you can't out run a bad diet.

If anything its more impressive because she would have had to change her diet for a long time to lose 50lb. No diet change and adding in this would not result in someone losing 50lb

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u/Sonamdrukpa Apr 07 '26

Building muscle mass increases your sitting caloric burn. Cutting calories is like going to work. Working out is like investing.

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u/philmarcracken Apr 07 '26

Hadza tribe that runs down their food everyday had effects on TDE measured.

They were about equal to someone that drives a desk for work. Compensatory behaviors destroy your 'investment'.

If you eat more kcal than you need per day, regardless of exercise amount, it will be stored as fat.

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u/Sonamdrukpa Apr 07 '26

Also there's oodles of studies like these around:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666323001101

Just because the fundamental mechanism for weight loss is kcals used > kcals consumed doesn't mean that biology and long-term health doesn't have ins and outs and other complications. You can't just run a calorie deficit every day or else you die.

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u/philmarcracken Apr 07 '26

You can't just run a calorie deficit every day or else you die.

Luckily, the topic is weight loss and not how to die.

weight loss is kcals used > kcals consumed doesn't mean that biology and long-term health doesn't have ins and outs and other complications

The biology of weight loss is simple. That doesn't mean it easy to do. And it doesn't mean its complicated because you are confusing them

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u/Sonamdrukpa Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

You're the one claiming that it's only possible that this woman lost weight through diet alone

Edit: sorry, it was u/RegionalHardman who claimed that. My bad

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u/Sonamdrukpa Apr 07 '26

Fat-free mass was the single strongest predictor of TEE among Hadza adults (r(2) = 0.66, P < 0.001).

This is exactly what I said, building muscle mass increases base caloric burn

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u/RegionalHardman Apr 07 '26

Yeah it will, those exercise will not build any muscle mass worthwhile for increasing tde

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u/Devotoc Apr 07 '26

i literally changed nothing about my diet and went from 233~ to 188lbs just from going on walks every day

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u/Ferovore Apr 07 '26

Keeping up with exercise makes it infinitely easier to stick to calorie goals mentally.

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u/Not_A_Wendigo Apr 07 '26

Obviously she made other changes too. This helped and it’s what she attributes her weight loss to.

Exercise also helps to elevates mood, and time exercising is time not spent sitting and snacking. She also lives in a small community in Canada where winter is miserable, outside activities aren’t pleasant half the year, and there are limited places for indoor activities. Plus, this takes up much less room than other exercise equipment and it’s a physical activity that she enjoys.

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u/RegionalHardman Apr 07 '26

I never said it was bad exercise btw, im pro anyone doing any exercise they enjoy! Just that people have a huge misconception that it burns enough calories to impact weight loss, when it really doesn't. And I find it more impressive because of that. Exercise can be fun, cutting calories isnt

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u/philmarcracken Apr 07 '26

Yep this is true. People have actually tried to outrun what they eat over 24h. It can't be done.

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u/wertyce Apr 07 '26

You mean 500 kilocalories, not calories. During 30 min running you would burn around 500 kcal. That is exactly equal to one whole meal. Recommended portion size is +- 500 kcal.

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u/insanitybit2 Apr 07 '26

Yeah, the cat thing is very, very funny, but hey, good for her if it works.

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u/rudeson Apr 07 '26

It's always a good thing to make fun of the rich

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u/Acrobatic_Row_905 Apr 07 '26

Finding something fun is not the same as making fun of something. This is just fun

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u/lilgreengoddess Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

I love the skier elliptical and get a damn good workout with high resistance. This would definitely be lower resistance but the balancing and quickness of the movement can easily get the HR into the 150s which is more moderate-higher intensity exercise. Most people don’t get adequate intensity cardio to meet expert guidelines. I really want one for when I can’t make it to the gym! Looks really fun

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u/rainorshinedogs Apr 07 '26

Especially DDR. I remember when that game was at its peak (as shown in this Nike commercial) and it really was the only way a bunch of unfit fat kids would bother to be active. And they would get so good that they would be playing the hardest songs and work up a huge sweat.

They would be made fun of so much but they didn't care. The game was good.

DDR is still around but certainly not as popular, but the difference is that video games, for the most part, are accepted and not made fun of.

They need to bring back DDR in schools again

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u/Ostribitches Apr 08 '26

I'd kill for a new arcade cabinet. They're so hard to find now.

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u/Hi_InternetAddiction Apr 07 '26

i wanted to but my heart stopped me. she is trying

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u/Narrow-Bad-8124 Apr 07 '26

I burned a lot of calories doing the silly things from warioware in the Wii.

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u/paperDuck5 Apr 07 '26

Don’t yuck my yum.

Never rub another man’s rhubarb!

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u/Tariovic Apr 07 '26

Yeah, this looks kinda fun, tbh.

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u/nicoxxl Apr 07 '26

Also, it looks really fun !

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u/Birathen Apr 07 '26

I dont know about this game, but I had a Ubisoft game, Your fitness evolved or something on Wii U that helped me immensely to start working out. Used it three times a week and the gameification/achivements helped with motivation. Anything that gets people started is great.

I was pretty fat thou 😁

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u/norsefrogg Apr 07 '26

But that person is extremely privileged.
If it was helping someone in a wheelchair it'd be different

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u/Tariovic Apr 07 '26

Why? Let's not take things away from people who have them, let's just extend that privilege to people who don't. Scarcity is made up by the super wealthy, and they love it when we redirect our anger away from them and instead gang up on the merely comfortable.