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Post subject : Computer Games are like 60yo chain-smoking fighter-pilots
Researchers at the University of Essex (UK) have been studying both elite gamers and athletes and have concluded that have the reaction speeds of a fighter-pilot but the bodies of 60 year-old chain smokers.
The research was conducted by Dr Dominic Micklewright of the university’s Sport, Performance and Fatigue Research Unit for a BBC Radio Four documentary entitled, ‘The eSportsmen’. One professional gamer in his 20s had the slim physique of an endurance athlete, but the lung capacity and aerobic fitness of someone four years older.
Dr Micklewright said:
Someone of this age should be much fitter but perhaps this is the occupational hazard of the professional gamer who can spend around 10 hours per day in front of a computer screen practicing… It is always difficult to say how these things will develop, but it could have long term health implications such as an increased risk of heart disease.”
I don’t think it will surprise anyone that people who spend all day gaming will be unfit, but what is sobering is the level of unfitness, and just how damaging large amounts on inactivity can be on the body.
This sort of example is also a good warning that just being the correct sort of weight and physique does not automatically make you fit.
Of course, now what we need is a professional Wii Fit league, that would sort everyone’s fitness out 
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