Does anyone here larp?

nellentine
nellentine Posts: 3 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I was wondering because I go to Amtgard (type of larp) pretty regularly and it can be a pretty good work out but I am entirely unsure how log the calories I'd burn from it. The closest thing in the database is fencing and from what I know of fencing, larp it isn't quite that intensive.

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  • moulson1313
    moulson1313 Posts: 1
    I LARP as well. I do a combo of both arobics and archery (I pay an archer and shoot for about 4 hours an event.) my game lasts 3 days and I don't eat much during the event. So cardio/hiking and archery
  • GeorgieLove708
    GeorgieLove708 Posts: 442 Member
    I don't, but I'd guess a heart rate monitor would be your best chance at getting a remotely accurate number.
  • MagJam2004
    MagJam2004 Posts: 651 Member
    I don't....yet, but it is definitely a goal. I get a little nervous with roleplay with strangers, though still want to get involved.
  • LilithLaquim
    LilithLaquim Posts: 16 Member
    Man, I wish there were a boffer LARP around here...someone was trying to get one started last summer, but it never got off the ground. I play stuff like V:tM and Changeling and so forth.

    As the poster above me said, a heart rate monitor is your best bet. Then just create your own exercise to log it as.
  • jackiethebee
    jackiethebee Posts: 1
    I totally do! :D

    I wore a footstep counter to one and counted around 40,000 steps in 2.5 days. We had this one walk we called 'the road of pain' as we had to march up and down, up and down.

    Because combat is variable in our larps, as is our terrain (we often play outside, and some of the venues are hilly and some are flat) I usually just under-estimate everything and track it as fast walking or something. I figure that evens it out. And I under-estimate my time too.
  • aubyshortcake
    aubyshortcake Posts: 796 Member
    always wanted to try it, it looks like so much fun
  • mom2aeris
    mom2aeris Posts: 98 Member
    Man, I wish there were a boffer LARP around here...someone was trying to get one started last summer, but it never got off the ground. I play stuff like V:tM and Changeling and so forth.

    As the poster above me said, a heart rate monitor is your best bet. Then just create your own exercise to log it as.
    CHANGELING!!!!!!
    Sorry, no one I know likes CtD so I get all excited.

    I have not LARPed with boffers, but I would try to wear a gadget, or maybe just look at the estimate of the calories burnt during fencing and then halve it. Of course, I am poor and sometimes lazy, but that would be my guess. :-P

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