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How to Coach Healthy Habits to Esports Athletes

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What unique health needs do video game players have? We talk to Team Liquid’s Tanner Curtis, aka 7Teen, and Brian Canavan, aka BSJ, who share tips for coaching the esports athlete and explain how they're challenging stereotypes of health and wellness in the gaming world.

During this episode you’ll learn about:

  1. Tanner “7Teen” Curtis and Brian “BSJ” Canavan, from Team Liquid [1:12]
    • Tanner Curtis’ journey from the Air Force to coaching online gamers [1:50]
    • Brian Canavan, engineering student-turned-professional streamer [4:02]
  2. The role of nutrition for esports athletes and video game players [7:33]
  3. 3 pillars of a video gamer’s health: Movement, sunlight, hydration [11:35]
    • How to train gamers to listen to their bodies [13:34]
  4. How to coach video games: Focus on the person, not the player [17:00]
  5. Healthy habits for video game players and what supplements gamers should take [20:32]
  6. Questions from the community
    • How old is too old to be a gamer? [27:11]
    • How do you separate gaming-as-hobby from gaming-as-work? [29:15]
    • Can you be healthy and be a gamer? [33:51]

Resources to topics mentioned in this episode:

Products mentioned in this episode: Sleep +, Thorne Protein Powders, Vitamin D; at-home health test kits from Thorne – Vitamin D Test, Sleep Test.

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