Ninety minutes of slicing neon blocks in a headset, arms swinging, feet shuffling, heart rate climbing to 147 at the peaks. Beat Saber doesn’t look like a workout until you’re forty minutes in and your shoulders are burning and you haven’t stopped moving.

RAI does this standing in their living room in Pensacola with a Twitch stream running. Which means they’re not just doing the work — they’re doing it where anyone can watch. There’s a specific kind of accountability in that. You can’t phone it in when chat is watching you miss a block.

Six hundred calories. No treadmill, no pavement, no weather excuse. Just a VR headset and whatever playlist the game throws at you. Some people need a track to run on. RAI needs a lightsaber and a leaderboard.

The thing about Beat Saber is that it tricks you into cardio. You think you’re playing a game. Then your watch tells you your heart rate hit 147 and you’ve been moving for an hour and a half and you burned dinner’s worth of calories. The best workouts are the ones that don’t feel like punishment.

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