Do E-Athletes Move?: A Study on Training and Physical Exercise in Elite E-Sports

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Author(s): Tuomas Kari (Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland)and Veli-Matti Karhulahti (University of Turku, Turku, Finland)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 15
Source title: Research Anthology on Business Strategies, Health Factors, and Ethical Implications in Sports and eSports
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7707-3.ch049

Keywords: Business & Management / Business & Organizational Research / Business and Organizational Research / Business Science Reference

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This article offers possibly the first peer-reviewed study on the training routines of elite e-athletes with special focus on the subjects' physical exercise routines. The study is based on a sample of 115 elite e-athletes. According to the responses, e-athletes train approximately 5.28 hours every day around the year on the elite level. Approximately 1.08 hours of that training is physical exercise. More than half (55.6%) of the elite e-athletes believe that integrating physical exercise in their training programs has a positive effect on esport performance; however, no less than 47.0% of the elite e-athletes do their physical exercise chiefly to maintain overall health. Accordingly, the study indicates that elite e-athletes are active athletes as well, those of age 18 and older exercising physically more than three times the daily 21-minute activity recommendation given by World Health Organization.

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