Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Has Endurance Training Taken a Hold of Gaming?

By Rob Sutter


Running and jumping, at one point, was the ideal combination in gaming and there weren't many others which seemed to be able to match this. However, times change and I think that when this happens, we begin to see more of an alteration in the way that games are crafted. They are played in a much more seamless way, meaning that the motions your characters make come across as fluid and not so much restricted. Video games which feature traits of endurance training are some of the ones most enjoyable to both watch and play.

If you play just about any modern video game, you'll see that those of the action-adventure genre are brimming with intensity. You'll take control of characters and they will go about running just fine but it's when they start to athletically move about that you begin to take notice. They jump as if the environment works with them. If they run towards a park bench, for example, they'll simply climb over it as you approach the structure, showcasing great levels of ingenuity that the creators can showcase.

Endurance training is something that you can go about in any setting one could possibly think of you but you may benefit the most from obstacle courses. You may go about a number of exercises, including but not limited to running through terrain which may seem slippery with mud. These are the actions that seem to fit in very nicely with gaming. These are the kinds of levels that you want to consider when talking about highly competitive events such as Spartan Race.

Platforming games these days seem to revolve more so on the climbing of walls and the scaling which they necessitate as well. "Prince of Persia" was the first game that I recall which has featured this heavily, though others have come about. As stated before "Assassin's Creed" was a popular title that built upon this idea and you have others which emulated the idea like "Darksiders." It's apparent that this is a popular feature and I hope that developers continue to expand on this idea.

It's clear that you're not going to be able to exactly emulate that you see in games, especially with fictitious characters like Ezio taking center stage. That doesn't mean that you can't still stay healthy and I believe that's what endurance training can do for you. Maybe you want to replicate the kinds of parkour and other types of running into your regimen. It will not be long until your physical stature benefits and you find yourself becoming stronger as well.




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