Competitive gaming is still a fresh topic for scholars, and research conducted by scientists consistently provide evidence that competitive gaming is physically taxing for its participants. One scientist, Professor Frobose, from the German Sports University, conducts a study on gamers while they are competing. He found that the gamers had impressive motor skills, achieving up to 400 actions per minute on the mouse and keyboard. Frobose also found that the gamers had heartbeats as high as 160 to 180 beats per minute, confirming that the actions per minute that these gamers acheive are physically stressful for them.
Furthermore, psychologists Rafael Pereira, Maria Wilwert, and Emilio Takase, perform a different study on a team of competitive gamers. They subjected the team to a routine that included "waking up, performing a physical activity or exercising, free time, time for lunch, mental activation period, [game] training, time for dinner, night training (either tactical or game, depending on the day of the week), more free time, and a minimum of eight hours for sleep". These activities were proposed to determine whether physical health had an impact on performance. The results revealed that the player that most closely followed the proposed routine had significant improvements in cognitive skills and performance, with the rest of the team achieving improvements as well.
Both studies suggest that competitive gaming is more physically straining than some would think. However, competitive gaming is still new, and more research is being conudcted in order to validate the findings of these two studies.
Furthermore, psychologists Rafael Pereira, Maria Wilwert, and Emilio Takase, perform a different study on a team of competitive gamers. They subjected the team to a routine that included "waking up, performing a physical activity or exercising, free time, time for lunch, mental activation period, [game] training, time for dinner, night training (either tactical or game, depending on the day of the week), more free time, and a minimum of eight hours for sleep". These activities were proposed to determine whether physical health had an impact on performance. The results revealed that the player that most closely followed the proposed routine had significant improvements in cognitive skills and performance, with the rest of the team achieving improvements as well.
Both studies suggest that competitive gaming is more physically straining than some would think. However, competitive gaming is still new, and more research is being conudcted in order to validate the findings of these two studies.