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Let the Body’n’Brain Games Begin: Toward Innovative Training Approaches in eSports Athletes
The phenomenon of eSports is omnipresent today. International championships and their competitive athletes thrill millions of spectators who watch as eSports athletes and their teams try to improve and outperform each other. In order to achieve the necessary cognitive and physical top form and to co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7042401/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32140125 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00138 |
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author | Martin-Niedecken, Anna Lisa Schättin, Alexandra |
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description | The phenomenon of eSports is omnipresent today. International championships and their competitive athletes thrill millions of spectators who watch as eSports athletes and their teams try to improve and outperform each other. In order to achieve the necessary cognitive and physical top form and to counteract general health problems caused by several hours of training in front of the PC or console, eSports athletes need optimal cognitive, physical and mental training. However, a gap exists in eSports specific health management, including prevention of health issues and training of these functions. To contribute to this topic, we present in this mini review possible avenues for holistic training approaches for cognitively, physically and mentally fitter and more powerful eSports athletes based on interdisciplinary findings. We discuss exergames as a motivating and promising complementary training approach for eSports athletes, which simultaneously combines physical and cognitive stimulation and challenges in an attractive gaming environment. Furthermore, we propose exergames as innovative full-body eSports-tournament revolution. To conclude, exergames bring new approaches to (physical) eSports, which in turn raise new topics in the growing eSports research and development community. |
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spelling | pubmed-70424012020-03-05 Let the Body’n’Brain Games Begin: Toward Innovative Training Approaches in eSports Athletes Martin-Niedecken, Anna Lisa Schättin, Alexandra Front Psychol Psychology The phenomenon of eSports is omnipresent today. International championships and their competitive athletes thrill millions of spectators who watch as eSports athletes and their teams try to improve and outperform each other. In order to achieve the necessary cognitive and physical top form and to counteract general health problems caused by several hours of training in front of the PC or console, eSports athletes need optimal cognitive, physical and mental training. However, a gap exists in eSports specific health management, including prevention of health issues and training of these functions. To contribute to this topic, we present in this mini review possible avenues for holistic training approaches for cognitively, physically and mentally fitter and more powerful eSports athletes based on interdisciplinary findings. We discuss exergames as a motivating and promising complementary training approach for eSports athletes, which simultaneously combines physical and cognitive stimulation and challenges in an attractive gaming environment. Furthermore, we propose exergames as innovative full-body eSports-tournament revolution. To conclude, exergames bring new approaches to (physical) eSports, which in turn raise new topics in the growing eSports research and development community. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7042401/ /pubmed/32140125 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00138 Text en Copyright © 2020 Martin-Niedecken and Schättin. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Martin-Niedecken, Anna Lisa Schättin, Alexandra Let the Body’n’Brain Games Begin: Toward Innovative Training Approaches in eSports Athletes |
title | Let the Body’n’Brain Games Begin: Toward Innovative Training Approaches in eSports Athletes |
title_full | Let the Body’n’Brain Games Begin: Toward Innovative Training Approaches in eSports Athletes |
title_fullStr | Let the Body’n’Brain Games Begin: Toward Innovative Training Approaches in eSports Athletes |
title_full_unstemmed | Let the Body’n’Brain Games Begin: Toward Innovative Training Approaches in eSports Athletes |
title_short | Let the Body’n’Brain Games Begin: Toward Innovative Training Approaches in eSports Athletes |
title_sort | let the body’n’brain games begin: toward innovative training approaches in esports athletes |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7042401/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32140125 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00138 |
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