Supernatural
Did someone make working out fun and effective?
Supernatural is a VR fitness game that burns calories and builds muscle in about 1/3 of the time for me. Forty-five minutes in the headset yields the same results as 3 hours or 30 miles of biking or a 5k run. I get better mobility and muscle strengthening in every area of my body because the movements are more like racquetball, but if you played against yourself. Did I also mention that rather than dealing with the boredom or discomfort of exercise, it’s more like dancing to 3,000 of your favorite songs from every genre perched in the middle of the most beautiful places on the planet so realistic that you can feel a fear of heights at times or imagine a cool breeze coming off Everest hitting your face? Yes, it’s too good to be true. That’s probably why I’ve done it simply to relax every day for the past seven months. I’ve done 54 workouts in the past 4 weeks and barely feel them. You can rack up some pretty legit stats too. Follow me below for some cool media about it…
Their promo shows you how beautifully done this game is. The CEO is Chris Milk who has also done music videos for Kanye and more.
It is inclusive to all despite age or level of fitness. Chesney is an amazing guest coach but everything in this video promotion reflects their diversity when it comes to choices of music, coaches and their online community.
Even celebs are starting to catch on. Elliot Page is ripped AF and explains VERY awkwardly what Supernatural is like… https://youtu.be/0TGr4qzUp1g?t=190
This game is as good for seventy-year-olds who never worked out as it is for super-athletic types with no time. Here is one of the popular community leaders showing you workout variations within a session.
This is boxing
This is flow with varied intensity
Burn calories. Build Muscle. Have fun.
My own stats surprised me at first. This morning according to my watch I did 5,000+ steps and 3.5 miles doing a half-hour of Supernatural. In two flow workouts, I hit 8,000 targets meaning your arms and flailing out, and ducked under 1,222 triangles, although some of them are consecutive, a lot of them are not. Then I did a quick boxing one which threw 840 punches, 42 blocks, and 419 dodges.
Here’s one day where I never left the house but played for over an hour
From March to June, my weight has stayed the same probably because I don’t diet, but if you look at my stats, I’ve gained a pound of lean muscle mass, and also lost most of the fat around my torso and back. Pretty amazing given SN is my only form of exercise and I don’t even really do that much of it. When I’m doing good, I’m hitting 40 minutes a day. When I’m busy, I’m doing that every other day at best.
After a year they give you a report. This user did over 930,000 squats in a year. That seems pretty normal to me considering they have me squat once every few seconds during a workout.
I started doing this during the winter of the pandemic. I thought the changes in my muscle tone were some of the most rapid I have ever seen considering I’m the type of person to bike 30 miles a day or run a 5k every morning. I estimated I was getting the same gains in ⅓ of the time. Turns out it was not my imagination at all. A reporter from the Washington Post took Supernatural into the lab to measure METs and found that it landed third on the list, above vigorous cycling and cross country skiing. Here is the article.
Almost 120 floors in two days
I’ve been working out a little under two years now in Supernatural. Last week, I helped to clear out an apartment and ended up going up and down almost 120 floors within two days carrying 20–50 lb bags outside. Not only didn’t I tire, but I didn’t even feel sore the next day. I remember these same stairs making me pause when I was a young girl, so I‘ve definitely become a much stronger version of myself than I ever was.
This game is saving lives:
Every once in a while, community members will post data on how their bodies are improving from the inside out.
What you need:
You’re going to want the Quest 3, and there are 2 sizes but you won’t need the extra memory so I suggest getting the 128GB one. $500
If you find you like it and are doing it every day, most of us get the BoboVR M3 Pro with battery, more so because it makes it WAY more comfortable and balances out the weight. (It’s also vastly better than the Elite one that costs twice as much). It’s expensive though, so only worth it if this becomes your gym. $50
Same, if you do it a lot, you’ll want the Controller grips. These work well for me. $25
And last, Supernatural has a monthly subscription fee of $10 a month (the first 30 days are free!), well worth it for me as the cheapest gym membership I’ve ever had. Definitely try before you buy. I always have free guest passes so just let me know when you’re ready.
Supernatural Rocks
Trust me, I would not bother to write a medium article about anything except that I have to keep repeating all of this to so many people. They designed a rockstar product and deserve the kudos for single-handedly saving and extending so many lives by making fitness fun and effective.
Bonus: Some of the locations in Supernatural
Missing a few but holy crap do these people work hard to make a good game. For extra fun, explore these in the game Wooorld.
Palisades Beach, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Varlaam monastery meteora greece
xe bang fai river laos
isabela island galapagos
mount shuksan north cascades national park
funerary complex of djoser egypt
Loch Grannoch Scotland
Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon Iceland
Virkisfell Iceland
Taft Point, Yosemite National Park CA
Erta Ale Volcano Ethiopia
Nadja
Tengger Caldera Volcano Indonesia
Dead Sea, Wadi Mujib, Jordan
Sahara Desert, Algeria
Thorsmork, South Highlands of Iceland
Lake Bucura, Retezat Mountains, Romania
Blue Lagoon, Iceland
Iceberg, Greenland
Lake Arcade
Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui (EAster Island)
Rongbuk Glacier, Mt. Everest, Tibet
Racetrack Playa, Death Valley CA
Cathedral Gorge Australia
Forgotten Pyramids, Meroe, Sudan
Great Wall of China
Chichen Itza, Yucatan State, Mexico
Lake Kel Suu, Kyrgyzstan
Skaftafell Glacier, Iceland
Nuorgam, Finland
Tang Mud Volcano Iran
Maroon Lake, Aspen, Colorado
Pamukkale, Turkey
Ursa Beach, Portugal
White Sands, New Mexico
Lake Angelus, New Zealand
Abajo Peak, Utah
Lock Coruisk, Scotland
Warren Canyon, Utah
Isabela Island, Galapagos
Raja Ampat Island, New Guinea
Snaefellsjokull Volcano Iceland
Vestrahorn Iceland
Lencois Maranhenses, Brazil
Northern Arm, Lake Powell Hite Utah
Atacama Desert Chile
Wharariki Beach, Nelson, New Zealand
Milford Sound, The south island of new zealand
Port Esportiu de Calafat Spain
Malyovishki Lakes Bulgaria
Lake Rotoiti New Zealond
Salar de Uyuni Bolivia
The monastery Ad Deir, Petra
Cathedral George, Australia
Namib Desert, Namibia
Yuanyang Rice Terraces, China
Vinicunca, Peru (Rainbow Mountain)
Wedgemount Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
The Temple of Horus at Edfu
Deryouk Plain, Iran
Alblittkopf Mountain, Austria
Tom Dick & Harry Mountain, Oregon
Auroa Point, New Zealand
Col Du Lautaret, Hautes-Alpes, France
Machu PIcchu, Peru
The Dolomites, Italy
White Desert National Park, Sahara el Beyda
New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean
Mittelgipfel, Bernese Alps, Switzerland
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Mural de la Prehistoria, Vinales, Cuba
Loch Coruisk, Scotland
Motu Rimatiai, Tetiaroa
Lencois Maranhenses, Brazil
Bell Park Pier, South Africa
Hverfjall Volcano Crater, Iceland
The Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt
Vabbinfaru Island, North Male Atoll, Republic of Maldives
