Burn 300+ calories a day by making one simple change to your gaming

This is the only “don’t do anything and lose weight” method that will ACTUALLY work for you! Holding all other factors equal(exercise, diet, etc.) this powerful secret will help you burn as much as 600 extra calories everyday! You NEED TO READ THIS ARTICLE!

Do I have you intrigued? Here’s the secret…

Standing desk. Standing allows you to burn FIVE TIMES more calories than sitting. According to livestrong.com you burn 50 more calories on average standing than you do sitting. If you’re a hardcore gamer you probably spend at least six hours a day at your computer. Burning 50 extra calories per hour at six hours a day equals 300 calories a day, 9300 calories a month, and 111,600 calories a year. Each pound of fat contains 3500 calories, so you’re burning the equivalent of 31 pounds each year simply by replacing six hours of sitting with six hours of standing.

I stand for 12+ hours a day now working on and gaming. That’s an extra 600 calories burned per day or 62 pounds per year.

The standing desk I use.

Standing Desks will make you a better gamer

Standing increases the level of blood flow in your body thus making you more alert and focused. This will help you be more productive if you’re working and more focused while gaming!

But the benefits don’t stop there!

Standing desks dramatically reduce the chance of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, diabetes.

From my own experience my standing desk has completely eliminated chronic lower back pain.

Where to buy standing desks:

I recommend this drafting table. It’s what I use(you can see it in the video). It’s extremely stable, built out of study materials, has a large surface area, extremely adjustable(I’m 6’1″ and it’s high enough for me). The best part is that it’s way cheaper than most commercial standing desks. Standing computer desks can run as much as $1500. This drafting table is only $280. Link to the table on Amazon. The links are affiliate links, so if you buy from that link I get a small percentage of the sale. It doesn’t cost you anything extra and helps support what I’m doing here at The Healthy Gamer.

Here are some really cool DIY standing desks if you’re on a budget: http://www.officefitness.org/2012/05/diy-standing-desk-plans-ideas/

If you want to be really fancy and have your monitors mounted on swivel arms I highly recommend this Ergotron system. I would advise against getting anything besides Ergotron to mount your monitors on. I did quite a bit of research when purchasing my own standing desk and Ergotron is by far the industry leader in quality swivel arm monitor mounts. Other cheaper products have a lot of negative reviews of breaking after a few months use.

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Again I cannot tell you how much I recommend transitioning from sitting at your computer to standing. A $300 investment can help add years onto your life, save you from myriad of diseases, help you look better, feel better, and game better. How can you afford not to get a standing desk? http://www.thehealthygamer.com/standingdesk

Matthew

Hey~! Found you via Diablo 3 and commented on one of your cooking vids on YouTube! Registered here as well.

On a note about diet, when you did your contest prep did you do a straight keto? Or some kind of cyclical type deal?
Also, when I am on keto I know my work output is definitely hindered, what kind of program did you follow?

Look forward to watching more vids man! Keep up the awesome work!
- The Healthy Gamer
  
  I used Keto to drop from roughly 10% to 6%. You do lose a lot of strength in the gym, and there’s really nothing to get around that. Well one could be to do a full body workout hitting the big 3(squats, deads, bench) for 3-6 reps ranges on Monday after your carb-up day and then doing more higher rep stuff through the rest of the week. Think I was still doing 5×5 when I was cutting down. Obviously didn’t make much strength gains haha.
  
  Right now my cut I’m doing more carb cycling and not even so much carb cycling as simply avoiding grains/flour/pasta. Pretty paleo but not totally strict. Most days my only carb sources are from fruits and green leafy veggies, and 3-4 days out of the week after a hard workout I’ll have a bowl of rice or some potatoes/sweet potatoes to go with a meal.
  
  Hope this is helpful and thanks for following along
  - Klemens
    
    Hi! Years ago I had one of these ‘chairs’ you kneel on (you got a cushion on your rear on one on your knees). I think some things you say apply there to: I also was more concentrated on the game and you had to keep some body tension on these. I think they may even be better for your leg muscles than standing the drawback obviously being that you are even more attached to the desk than when using a normal chair, because to stand up you kinda have to thread out of this thing. (I guess one advantage of standing on the desk is the freedom of movement.)
    
    Since the chair got lost, when moving i bought a ne wone roughly a year ago (they were modern like ten years ago or something), but it was ill designed – i seem to have had a good design back then, because the angles of this thing have to be right and the cusions must be firm. What may have to have to be said is that i was in rather good shape back than, which may even be necessary to actually like this (which probably is true for standing to).
    
    What i also could mention is that, even if you lose shape completely, like i did, you still benefit from having had a good shape. Even though it may not be easy to get back into shape, you don’t entirely loose this either:
    
    a) You know what it is like to be in good condition in the first place.
    
    b) Even physically – example the tendons remained stretched somewhat.
    
    c) (and i guess this belongs somewhat to this) at least you are aware about what you eat.
    
    I tried to work out again some time ago, but you need to be in the mood more or the less to do so, meaning you got to have the right circumstances (peers, relationshipwise, job possibly and so on), otherwise you just won’t.
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I always stand while gaming, working, or studying. For those who don’t have a standing desk, here’s what I do: either stack a small square cabinet on top of your regular desk, or use your dresser as a desk. You could also place you desk on something elevated.