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09-16-2008, 02:11 PM
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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2008/09/treadbeginlsp.jpg15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes - from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off (http://www.wowinsider.com/tips/) to players you'd like to hear more about.
Just a few weeks ago, we published a post about two guys who connected their treadmills to their computers (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/08/26/using-treadmills-to-race-across-azeroth/) to find out just what it would be like to really take a little jog down the road from Shadowglen to Darnassus. (Hilarity ensued.) But that got us thinking ... What if these guys had actually kept playing that way, turning their WoW-time into a potent weight-loss strategy?
It turns out that quite a few players have done exactly that. Back in 2006, The Weight Lifter (http://theweightlifter.blogspot.com/) lost more than 40 pounds with two-hour "WarBiking" sessions on an exercise bike while playing WoW. ("If things got crazy -- as in, I ended up running for my life in the game -- I would end up peddling really fast on the bike. LOL, I know, kinda weird. You try it and see what you do!")
Then we talked to Althaea (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Eitrigg&n=Althaea) of Terror Nova-H on Eitrigg. Althaea has lost almost 100 pounds playing WoW from a treadmill, shrugging off a diagnosis of sleep apnea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea) and creating an exercise routine that has definitely stuck. Find out how he put it all together, after the break.Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: Lean and mean with WoW (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/09/16/15-minutes-of-fame-lean-and-mean-with-wow/)
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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2008/09/treadbeginlsp.jpg15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes - from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off (http://www.wowinsider.com/tips/) to players you'd like to hear more about.
Just a few weeks ago, we published a post about two guys who connected their treadmills to their computers (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/08/26/using-treadmills-to-race-across-azeroth/) to find out just what it would be like to really take a little jog down the road from Shadowglen to Darnassus. (Hilarity ensued.) But that got us thinking ... What if these guys had actually kept playing that way, turning their WoW-time into a potent weight-loss strategy?
It turns out that quite a few players have done exactly that. Back in 2006, The Weight Lifter (http://theweightlifter.blogspot.com/) lost more than 40 pounds with two-hour "WarBiking" sessions on an exercise bike while playing WoW. ("If things got crazy -- as in, I ended up running for my life in the game -- I would end up peddling really fast on the bike. LOL, I know, kinda weird. You try it and see what you do!")
Then we talked to Althaea (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Eitrigg&n=Althaea) of Terror Nova-H on Eitrigg. Althaea has lost almost 100 pounds playing WoW from a treadmill, shrugging off a diagnosis of sleep apnea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea) and creating an exercise routine that has definitely stuck. Find out how he put it all together, after the break.Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: Lean and mean with WoW (http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/09/16/15-minutes-of-fame-lean-and-mean-with-wow/)
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