When it comes to honed reactions, gamers rank with fighter pilots. Just don’t expect them to walk a mile without collapsing.
A university academic conducted a series of physical and psychological tests to determine whether playing on computers could be defined as a sport. … [T]heir fitness levels were shockingly low and comparable to people either much younger or much older than their actual age. One leading gamer in his twenties appeared to be slim and healthy with a physique similar to an endurance athlete. But tests revealed he in fact had the lung function and aerobic fitness of a heavy smoker in his sixties. Dr Micklewright blamed the gaming lifestyle of spending 10 hours a day in front a computer screen and warned youngsters against such a sedentary lifestyle.
Video gaming is a sport the same way eating a gas station hot dog is enjoying a gourmet meal.
