Gym with workouts for eSports gamers

The stereo­type of the over­weight, pasty ado­les­cent locked in his bed­room play­ing video games is in­creas­ingly fur­ther from re­al­ity. Many com­mit­ted gamers have now gone pro­fes­sional, com­pet­ing in pub­lic video game com­pe­ti­tions known as eS­ports. Many of these gamers now have their own per­sonal train­ers and nu­tri­tion­ists, just like more tra­di­tional ath­letes.

The eS­ports phe­nom­e­non is grow­ing, and the fi­nals of eS­ports com­pe­ti­tions at­tract thou­sands of spec­ta­tors, while mil­lions more all over the world watch on­line. This is the con­text for a gym in Barcelona with fa­cil­i­ties and pro­grammes de­signed for gamers. Duet Fit in Les Glòries shop­ping cen­tre pro­vides gamers with con­soles and com­put­ers to per­fect their skills. “Until now we worked only with phys­i­cal sports. But eS­ports are here to stay and so we have merged the two,” says Anselmo Méndez, man­ager of the Duet group.