The human body was initially built for performing its basic tasks to survive: hunting and gathering food and resources. A few million years later, the industrial and digital revolution changed how we spend our days. We mainly run as a hobby and barely as a necessity.

It was a so-so season and the Belgian League Country Finals was soon approaching. The Belgian League of Legends’ Sector One team needed to turn things around.

Twenty young video gamers played a customized League of Legends task preceded by a short bout of high-intensity interval training or a period of rest. Video game performance was assessed as the total number of targets eliminated as well as accuracy, defined as the ability to eliminate targets using single attacks.