Lets Talk About Fitness

             If you were to ask me what makes eSports, a "sport", what do you think some of the underlining values that makes eSports, a sport in relation to physical sports like football, soccer, tennis etc..? Is it the teamwork that comes involved with many of the different games or even the mental capacity of understanding the strategy involved with playing against an opponent? While we never consider eSports to be in a category with physical fitness,  a vast majority of professional eSport players have a daily regiment of physical activity mixed in with their regular practice schedule. 

          Major professional eSports teams like Cloud9 or SKT Telecom hold their own athletic facilities and hire private trainers for their players. In the most recent years, teams have found that mixing physical fitness with  their daily playing has helped increase performance, energy levels, and overall health to the players. When considering that many of these professional gamer play anywhere from 12-16 hours a day, mixing in a different training regiment is often healthy. 

        What is interesting to hear is just how recent teams have included physical fitness into their training programs for their eSports players. In fact we do not see such a change in a players overall fitness until the mid 2000's, where eSports finally started to grow.