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django_sc2
Profile Joined February 2012
Sweden11 Posts
March 13 2012 18:55 GMT
#1
Hey

After a very intense game you can end up sweaty as if you just had been running a mile

So my question is; does anyone know approximately how much kcal you burn while playing starcraft?
Hossinaut
Profile Joined June 2011
United States453 Posts
March 13 2012 18:57 GMT
#2
ALL TEH CALORIES

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Rotodyne
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2263 Posts
March 13 2012 19:00 GMT
#3
25 per hour
I can only play starcraft when I am shit canned. IPXZERG is a god.
Siphonn
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States298 Posts
March 13 2012 19:01 GMT
#4
It's over 9000

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101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
March 13 2012 19:01 GMT
#5
You sweat while playing sc?
Math doesn't kill champions and neither do wards
trias_e
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States520 Posts
March 13 2012 19:01 GMT
#6
So check this out: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_humans.html

In this talk he mentions that chess masters can burn 6000 calories a day playing in tournaments!

" ...[with] chess masters in the middle of a tournament, they are going through six to seven thousand calories a day thinking. [They are] turning on a massive physiological stress response simply with thought and doing the same thing with their bodies as if they were some baboon that’s just ripped open the stomach of their worst rival — it’s all with thought.”

Serious, competitive SC2 certainly burns calories. How much, I have no idea.
django_sc2
Profile Joined February 2012
Sweden11 Posts
March 13 2012 19:03 GMT
#7
I mean, it could be a great motivation for people if the answer is good enough
Fighter
Profile Joined August 2010
Korea (South)1531 Posts
March 13 2012 19:03 GMT
#8
On March 14 2012 04:01 trias_e wrote:
So check this out: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_humans.html

In this talk he mentions that chess masters can burn 6000 calories a day playing in tournaments!

" ...[with] chess masters in the middle of a tournament, they are going through six to seven thousand calories a day thinking. [They are] turning on a massive physiological stress response simply with thought and doing the same thing with their bodies as if they were some baboon that’s just ripped open the stomach of their worst rival — it’s all with thought.”

Serious, competitive SC2 certainly burns calories. How much, I have no idea.


I can't believe that you just made this thread interesting.

But I guess SC2 could be comparable. If not mentally, then the physical aspect must make up for some of the loss.
For Aiur???
PhxdB
Profile Joined January 2012
14 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-13 19:06:30
March 13 2012 19:03 GMT
#9
Probably not that much. Sure an intense game can get your heart beating, the adrenaline pumping, and your pits sweating but I don't think it comes anywhere close to actaully running a mile.

Although at the highest pro levels I'm sure the mental energy they put into this game can also become quite physically exhausting as well.
AmericanUmlaut
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany2577 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-13 19:06:50
March 13 2012 19:06 GMT
#10
It depends a lot on your hardware. Especially your power supply, and the percentage of its wattage that it draws from your treadmill.
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Lunchador
Profile Joined April 2010
United States776 Posts
March 13 2012 19:06 GMT
#11
Unless if you find yourself physically gasping for breath at the end of a competitive session, I honestly don't see the calories burnt being anywhere comparable to a physical workout.
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Aberu
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States968 Posts
March 13 2012 19:06 GMT
#12
The brain is the most demanding organ in the body in regards to calories. Evidence suggests that we invented cooking of meat before our brains went through it's largest changes in our ancestral history, so the securing of more calorie rich food, and access to digesting that food better (since you actually get more nutrients and calories from cooked food then from raw), helped us get a bigger brain through natural selection.
srsly
mrafaeldie12
Profile Joined July 2011
Brazil537 Posts
March 13 2012 19:07 GMT
#13
You sweat playing Sc2? You should look for medical help LOL.

And you won't have any significant calories burned, you're not exercising your muscles not nearly as much, and mental activity is light on them calories.

"..it all comes thumbling down thumbling down thumblin down"
sperY
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Serbia444 Posts
March 13 2012 19:10 GMT
#14
On March 14 2012 04:07 mrafaeldie12 wrote:
You sweat playing Sc2? You should look for medical help LOL.

And you won't have any significant calories burned, you're not exercising your muscles not nearly as much, and mental activity is light on them calories.



I sweat too sometimes. Mutas keep you stressed lol

It completely normal.
Mrvoodoochild1
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1439 Posts
March 13 2012 19:11 GMT
#15
I usually drink and eat shitfood when I play, so I'm pretty sure I gain weight when I play.
"let your freak flag fly"
SmackDiablo
Profile Joined July 2011
United States49 Posts
March 13 2012 19:13 GMT
#16
If you sweat while playing Starcraft....you need more exercise....and by more I mean A LOT more.
ref4
Profile Joined March 2012
2933 Posts
March 13 2012 19:13 GMT
#17
you need to play like 20+ 40 minutes long macro back and forth games in order to even shred 1kcal


trust me I have a PhD in broscience.
django_sc2
Profile Joined February 2012
Sweden11 Posts
March 13 2012 19:14 GMT
#18
The question is ofc related to playing long periods, e.g.

Does 5 hours of pure laddering burn more then like 200kcal? It doesnt sound too unrealistic to me...
PhxdB
Profile Joined January 2012
14 Posts
March 13 2012 19:18 GMT
#19
On March 14 2012 04:13 SmackDiablo wrote:
If you sweat while playing Starcraft....you need more exercise....and by more I mean A LOT more.
Why are people dumb?

Have you never had a close game that kept you shaking on the edge of your seat? Sweating is a natural stress response. You don't have to be physically exherting yourself to sweat.
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10343 Posts
March 13 2012 19:19 GMT
#20
Doesn't creating adrenaline force you to burn calories...? you don't need to sweat, or am I wrong
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
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