Muscle memory – is e-sport a real sport and how to train?

“The great majority of people I meet are thinking whether e-sport (popularly playing games) can be called a sport – electronic sports as the name itself suggests. Since I am one of these persons who claim that sport is to do it instead of watching television, it has always played an important role (recreational one) in my life. It has not always been as important as I would wish (when there was time), but always meaningful. Sport is one of these things, which ensure the best experiences when doing it, and not only watching it (at most it combines doing and watching simultaneously). However, the question is whether we may have exactly the same experiences when doing e-sport? Are there any common features between a “real” sport and e-sport? Today I would like to focus on the phenomenon called a muscle memory, and more precisely on movement patterns, procedural memory and a “memory” that has a thousand of other names. In sport it is often confused with hypertrophy (growth in cells/muscle fibers) and hyperplasia (increase in the number of cells/muscle fibers). So what exactly is the so called “muscle memory”?”

Author: Daniel ‘zoNE’ Gabryś

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