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Six to Start and Marvel Entertainment to Launch Global Marvel Move Mobile Fitness Program

 Six to Start, the co-creator of wildly popular fitness app Zombies, Run! and subsidiary of OliveX (NSX: OLX), a global leader in digital fitness experiences, is excited to announce their collaboration with Marvel Entertainment for the global launch of Marvel Move, a new interactive fitness adventure for smartphones. Coming Summer 2023, the collaboration features top-tier talent and fan-favourite Marvel Comics characters, including Thor, Loki, Hulk, and the X-Men, in a uniquely immersive storyline-led running adventure. Six to Start has more than a decade of experience bringing effective and body-positive training programs to its legions of dedicated users, while Marvel Comics drives a storied brand with billions of fans worldwide. Together, they are merging entertainment with exercise through Marvel Move, the first interactive fitness adventure from Marvel, turning fitness journeys into an epic blockbuster that promotes overall physical and mental wellness. Marvel Move will be available as a featured fitness program in the forthcoming ZRX app, the new home of Zombies, Run! and more brands to be announced.

With regular new workouts and ongoing storylines, users of all abilities can choose to walk, jog, or run through immersive, interactive audio narratives that will fully transport runners into the Marvel Universe. Drawing from ten-plus years of creating narrated fitness journeys in Zombies, Run!, Six to Start’s team of world-class storytellers has developed thrilling Marvel Comics-based storylines in which the runner is the main character, and supporting characters help runners meet fitness goals amid a selection of epic adventures. Users have full control over the time or distance of their runs, can enable thrilling chases when they want to intensify their workout, and can track their activity whether they’re outdoors, on a treadmill, in a wheelchair, and more. There’s even the opportunity to enroll in expert-designed 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon training programs.

Marvel Move will launch with the following storylines:

“Thor & Loki: Asgard 5K Training” written by Alex Acks

Lost in the Ten Realms, you have only one way home: follow the guidance of Thor and Loki… if they can stop fighting for five minutes. With 24 fully voiced workouts over eight weeks, this is an expert-designed training programme designed to take you from zero running experience to being capable of running a full 5K with the godly sibling duo.

“X-Men: Age of ORCHIS” written by Tini Howard

Discover your mutant identity as you’re welcomed to the mutant haven of Krakoa. You’ll be recruited to work alongside the X-Men to counter a rising threat to mutantkind. Written by Tini Howard (X-Men comics), this is a classic globe-trotting X-Men-style adventure alongside Wolverine, Storm, Jean Grey, and many more.

“The Hulk: Hulkville” written by Matt Wieteska

Run from the authorities with Bruce and Betty Banner as they try to hide Hulk from the world. But when you finally find shelter in a remote desert town, mysterious forces are at work… can you uncover the truth before it’s too late?

“Daredevil: Terminal Degree” written by Bilal Dardai

As a new student at a prestigious law school, you soon realise all is not as it seems. Before you know it, you’re pulled into the dangerous criminal underworld and find yourself working alongside Daredevil himself to bring down the whole house of cards.

“Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch: In Dreams” written by Kim Richards

You find yourself listening to an audio tour guide for a place you’ve never visited… but nothing seems quite right… Suddenly you realise there’s another voice leaking through, warning you, trying to guide you: a certain Sorcerer Supreme. Featuring Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch, you’ll need to figure out where you are, and how you’ll escape. Quickly.

Gen Con 2013: My Con By the Numbers

This is the second major convention of 2013 where I tracked how far I walked over the four days and how many calories I burned. Just because you’re having fun doesn’t mean you can’t get some exercise too. Here’s the final numbers for Gen Con 2013!

Gen Con 2013 Overall

Steps: 45,573
Distance: 19.78 miles
Calories: 1,878

Compare that to San Diego Comic Con stats from this year, and you can see the convention juggernaut is also that when it comes to exercise too.

San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Overall

Steps: 60,512
Distance: 25.61 miles
Calories: 2,482

However, this Gen Con was much better than last year’s convention

Gen Con 2012 Overall

Steps: 30,716
Distance: 12.75 miles
Calories: 1,236

There’s still Baltimore Comic Con, SPX and maybe a few more other conventions to come, so we’ll see if any can top SDCC and how each does per day spent there.

SDCC 2013: My Con By the Numbers – The Finale!

I missed a punch of these posts and will skip the break down per day, but here’s how far I walked and how many calories burned in the almost 4 days of the convention. During that week, I lost 0.5 lbs all of which was fat (according to my scale). See geeking can be healthy!

Overall 2013

Distance: 25.61 miles
Calories: 2,482
Steps: 60,512

Compare that to 2012:

Overall 2012

Distance: 28.47 miles
Calories: 2,791
Steps: 65,997

SDCC 2013: My Con By the Numbers

Thursday was a much more active day at the convention, with some late night walking so the numbers have greatly increased from the day before. Thankfully, my feet don’t hurt as much. We’ll see how much weight, if any, I lose when this is all over.

Thursday

Distance: 8.55 miles
Calories: 829
Steps: 20,152

Wednesday

Distance: 2.46 miles
Calories: 235
Steps: 5,938

Total

Distance: 11.01 miles
Calories: 1064
Steps: 26,090

NYCC 2012 – My Con By the Numbers. The Finale!

The show has come and gone and lots of distance was covered.  Here’s the end numbers for New York Comic Con 2012.

NYCC Overall

Distance: 17.08 miles
Calories: 1,676
Steps: 40,494

How does this stack up to other conventions and what’s the total amount of exercise during my convention tour?

SDCC Gen Con Baltimore NYCC Total
Steps 56,812 30,716 14,264 40,494 142,286
Miles 24.59 12.75 5.97 17.08 60.39
Calories 2,415 1,236 575 1,676 5,902

It takes about 3,500 to lose 1 lb. So from all of that walking, all throbbing of the legs, I lost 1.69 lbs. Not a whole lot when you think about it.

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