In the modern world of couch potatoes and snack bars, the problem of excess weight is relevant for many men and women. Thus, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the number of obese people has doubled over the past eight years.

You hear a lot of things: “I would like to lose weight, but there’s no time to go to the gym.” You can understand those people: not everyone has the strength to train after a long day’s work. It turns out that the desire to keep oneself in shape is present, but the idea of going to the gym in the evening is horrifying.

In pursuit of the desired result, some people are looking for magical ways to lose weight with the help of sports in a month, while others start experimenting with diets, counting calories, or simply limiting themselves to food. At first, the effort can be successful: the “shock” therapy will make the body get rid of extra pounds. But there are several dangers in the way. First of all, a person will lose not only his fat reserves, but also his muscle mass on a diet. Second, after the diet is complete and the diet returns to normal, the weight is likely to return. The desired effect can be achieved only with a comprehensive approach to the scheme of correct nutrition + sport. No extremes!

Sports to everyone’s liking

Regular training will help to reduce weight, form a beautiful figure. It will also help to keep and if you are skilful – to increase your muscle mass. Without them, it will not be possible to achieve a long-term result. The main thing is to make sure that training isn’t a burden. Of course, you’ll have to activate your will power. But there’s no point in turning weight loss through sport into conscription – you’ll probably quit halfway through this approach.

What kind of sports do you want to do to lose weight with pleasure? Our advice is to try laser tag.

Fitness instructors and coaches assure: laser tag provides an excellent physical activity. It combines athletic component and game elements, which helps to entice people, deprives them of routine activities. Laser tag uses realistic equipment with sound effects and vibration sensors. This adds emotions to your training and helps to establish interaction between participants. Players can choose an interesting story and turn the game task into an exciting adventure.

Train your body while playing

How does laser tag affect the body? During the game, there are elements of interval training. Energetic jerks: when you need to overcome the necessary distance as quickly as possible. Respite moments: when you wait for the opponent in an ambush. Participants of laser battles make many different movements that are in some form or another present in traditional physical training – running, jumping, tilting, lifting legs, arms, turns.

When it comes to playing outdoors on a playground, participants are likely to have to travel over rough terrain. In such conditions, the player involves the muscles of the press, back, hips, caviar. Plus, the player needs to carry a tagger all the time. Laser tag weapon models have different weights, but even the lightest assault rifles such as LASERWAR’s MP9-LT Phoenix weighs about 700-800 grams (we’re not talking about laser tag pistols, which are rarely used as standalone weapons). It’s not hard to just hold such a weapon, but it’s harder to run with it, especially for girls. As a result, the equipment turns into a sports apparatus that increases the load on the athlete. We get a training session that affects the whole body and helps to lose weight faster.

Cardio with a tagger

In addition to all of the above, laser tag is also a quality cardio training. During exercise, the heart starts to contract more often, the blood gets more oxygen, resulting in faster metabolism and burning of fat cells. Cardio training helps to strengthen the heart and vessels, to become more enduring. Regular exercise allows you to lose weight and keep yourself in good physical shape.

The guys from the Arsenal laser tag Club in Sarapul (Udmurtia) conducted a big experiment to prove that laser tag can easily replace cardio training in the gym.

Participants of the beauty contest “Kamskaya Beauty – 2019” played laser tag under the guidance of an experienced coach. One of the contestants wore a fitness bracelet during the game. At the end of the training the gadget showed how far its owner ran and how many calories were burned in a ten-minute round. It turned out that in ten minutes of playing laser tag you can burn an average of 100 kilo-calories and walk 800 meters. And in food equivalent, it’s an orange and a half. Or a small fried potato. Or half a banana. Or 20 grams of potato chips. It’s easy to understand that a half-hour laser tag game helps to burn calories and prevents you from gaining weight.

A cure for stress

As we have already said, it is possible to lose weight effectively with the help of sports and to consolidate the result only when the lessons bring pleasure. Laser tag fully meets this requirement.

1. Laser tag is safe. Taggers shoot harmless laser beams and hit electronic sensors. No punches, no bruises, no scratches. That’s why even small (6-7 years) kids are allowed to play laser tag. Learn more about the benefits of laser tags for children here. The only discomfort you may encounter is heaviness and discomfort in your muscles in the morning after the game. But that’s how it’s supposed to be after an intense workout, right?

2. Laser tag is a team game. It’s much fun when you train together – time flies. In addition, a person receives pleasant emotions from communicating with friends, colleagues or relatives. The unique case when you don’t need to part with your loved ones during training – play and have fun together!

3. Laser tag is an opportunity to spend time outdoors, which is especially valuable for those who spend many hours indoors and are rarely go to the countryside. You can play laser tag in winter – LASERWAR equipment easily withstands negative temperatures.

4. Laser tag is a great cure for stress. A person comes to the rental club and gets into a new, unusual environment. It’s a good distraction from your PC, smartphone and routine household chores. The player opens a new world of game reality, where the decisions of each player are important. He gets the opportunity to act. New impressions distract from the thoughts of eating, which is important for those who play sports to lose weight, and gave up the usual diet in favour of good nutrition.

There are people who do laser tags regularly. They participate in tournaments, scenario games, competitions and are in a good shape – thanks to regular training.

But laser tag is not just for professional athletes. It’s good for both unprepared beginners and those who are tired of the gym. For some players, a laser tag game can be a starting point on the way to the body improvement. For others – it will help to diversify the series of trainings and then return to the routine with new strength.

The player gets bright emotions, gets rid of negative things in his life and trains his body. A perfect scheme to lose weight and love sports! Play laser tag and be healthy!

The modern world of entertainment offers a wide variety of leisure activities. Everyone chooses according to their abilities and hobbies: some prefer PC games, others – laser tag battles in reality. It seems that nothing can be common between entertainment in the virtual world and in real life. However, there are similarities. Moreover, it is possible to combine the experience of both types of leisure activities for the benefit of health and mind.

What do PC games and laser tag battles have in common?

In the world of PC games various shooters and strategies received massive popularity. A lot has been said about threats that a PC poses for the user, but with a reasonable approach and dosed immersion in the virtual world, you can find something on the plus side. As for laser tag games, there’s no harm talking, only pluses. Active games with safe laser tag equipment in the real world, not the virtual one, is a great way to warm up and get a charge of positive emotions.

On the technical side, the two types of entertainment are quite different. Laser tag has borrowed games various scenarios from PC games.

In terms of self-development, socialization and getting psycho-emotional pleasure laser tag and PC games have their own features.

Stress relief. For many people, PC games are a way to relax and distract from external problems after a hard day’s work. But there are those who need physical activity to get rid of the stress they accumulated during the day. Laser tag games can be very useful in this situation – a portion of physical activities in an unusual atmosphere will allow you to forget about the working routine and relief the accumulated stress.

Making like-minded friends. Playing online, many gamers make friends. They chat, discuss problems, game strategies, methods of leveling up characters, share experience. In this regard, PC games learn to communicate – that is, to find common ground with unknown people of different sex, age and nationality. Laser tag also brings people together. During large-scale games you can make new acquaintances and make friends, and during holidays or corporate parties in the laser tag club – spend time with your family, colleagues and friends.

Sense development. PC games help train fine movements and vision. Gamers are able to quickly notice small details on the screen, they have a well-developed coordination, because their success depends on those things. While playing laser tag you can also train your eyesight, because you need to notice your opponent from afar, to find a disguised player among the bushes and barriers, to hit the target exactly.

Brain training. Lovers of real and virtual shooters develop attention, good memory, coordination, non-standard thinking.

Getting positive emotions. The purpose of any leisure time is to get emotional relief and pleasure from the time spent. Both the fans of PC games and laser tag fighters will be satisfied.

From PC games to laser tag battles

Playing PC games is much more interesting while performing a mission or working in a team. The same is applied to laser tag games. Running and shooting at enemies is interesting only at first. Once the players get used to the game, they want to experience new emotions. Therefore, owners of laser tag clubs offer their guests a variety of scenarios that are run using original equipment. Popular scenarios often resonate with famous PC games, so PC gamers will quickly get used to the game of laser tag.

Here are some interesting options for laser tag games:

1. Capture the flag. This is a common scenario on which the Overwatch game is based. You might have already met the mode in the World of Warcraft. The two teams have their own base and flag. The task is to capture the enemy flag and deliver it to the home base. There is an option of the game with one flag, when participants of two teams first must find the flag, understanding the lay of the land, and then engage in a fight for it.

2. Capturing control points. This scenario is taken from the popular Battlefield shooter. Here the players fight over the control point, which must be hold for a certain period of time. The scenario involves up to 4 teams. Several control points are placed, which change their color depending on who shot at the device. The player who capture the device must hold it, and the opponents – take control of the device. The team that captured the most control points wins.

3. Operation counterterror. This scenario is from Counter Strike, everyone’s favorite PC game. You will find the same mode in the Point Blank game. The terrorists plant a bomb in a certain place, activate it and wait till its explosion without letting the counter-terrorists approach the explosive device. The task of the counter-terrorists is to defuse the bomb and prevent a terrorist attack.

4. Team Deathmatch – perhaps the most common scenario, on the basis of which most PC games and shooters are created. The game is simple – two teams play, the task of each team is to completely destroy the enemy team.

We have listed only a few options, in practice there are many more. In each case, you can invent and set your own rules, facilitating or, conversely, complicating the task for players depending on the level of training of gamers. Not only laser tag game devices (taggers + headbands) are used for scenario games. There is a whole range of additional devices – control points, medical kits, bases, command posts, mines. In some cases, an already complete game set is provided including the necessary game accessories.

PC or laser tag?

Since the rules of laser tag battles repeat the principles of PC games, it is logical to assume that players who have played PC games will quickly understand laser tag. They already have accumulated experience in teamwork and understand the game tactics. However, that does not mean that a person without training cannot play laser tag. This type of military and tactical game is available to anyone. All you have to do is to carefully study the rules, understand your role and act as a team.

Laser tag battles are much healthier than sitting in front of a PC screen. Playing laser tag, you can plunge into childhood and have fun in the fresh air relieving stress after a hard day. Those who play laser tag regularly appreciate this game for the opportunity to practice shooting, keep fit and develop logical thinking.

Let’s list several more advantages of laser tag over PC games:

1. Chatting is no substitute for live communication. Playing with a team of strangers, a person learns flexibility, trains to find common ground with different people.

2. Laser tag brings together families, colleagues, friends. Having gathered with your loved ones, you can strengthen family relationships, learn better your colleagues, have fun with friends, which is not the case with PC games.

3. Movement means life. Running, disguising, aiming, showing agility and flexibility – this is exactly what PC games lack. A moderate physical activity is good for everyone, especially those who have a confining job.

4. Live emotions and new knowledge. Playing on the equipped laser tag arena and the playground, the player plunges into the atmosphere of PC games, only here everything is real – weapons and laser tag equipment, suits, light and sound effects. Here you can take an authentic laser tag gun and feel like a real fighter. Laser tag can instill interest in weapons, military science and history, as many laser tag clubs have models of real weapons, including historical ones.

As you can see, laser tag has a lot of advantages. Not surprisingly, this game is becoming a very popular form of leisure and recreation activities. The organizers equip arenas for indoor laser tag with special effects and a special atmosphere of semi-darkness, offer games on the playgrounds, organize holidays for children and teenagers, hold field games. You can play laser tag with anyone, anywhere and anytime you want. The games are designed for different age and level of physical preparation. All you need is to be in a great mood and a desire to have fun and a good time.

PC games are good, laser tag – just splendid!