How Matthieu Péché Trains His Esports Team To Get Levels Ahead

Retired NFL stars like Kenny Vaccaro, and current premier league soccer players, such as Liverpool’s Virgil Van Dijk, are just a few of the many athletes turning to Esports as more than just a hobby. With prize pools reaching tens of thousands of dollars and the rise of streaming services, professional eSports has become a lucrative industry.

The Counter-Strike Story

Matthieu Péché, the manager for Team Vitality’s Counter-Strike squad since 2019, is no newcomer to the world of Esports. A trained canoeist with Olympic bronze under his belt and a world championship medal to his name, Péché recognizes the parallels between professional sports and professional gaming. In an exclusive interview, Matthias shares how he leverages his elite athlete experience to elevate his team performance.

The Winning Factor

Péché began his Esports journey with a strong background in martial arts, an athletic build honed through years of weightlifting and resistance training. “Team Vitality is my way to continue in a sport-like frame of mind, and at some point, my friends encouraged me to get into eSports management for CS because of my connections and network.”

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A Strong Work Ethic

Péché has spent countless hours developing the physical and mental discipline demanded by elite sports, principles he applies to the Esports circuit. “From there, I try to put my experience as a top-level athlete to work every day to develop the team’s performance and well-being. The athletes learn how to optimize their mental preparation alongside physical readiness.” As team manager for Team Vitality, Péché emphasizes his responsibility in coordinating strategies and coordinating with each squad member.

Data-Driven Training

Under Péché’s guidance, every team member works individually on refining critical skills. Péché prioritizes team dynamics and mental acrobatics. Each team member understands a “gatekeeper” is their bridge between training, nutrition and general health.”.

New Year 2023 proved spectacular for Team Vitality with massive prizes.

Kicking Fitness into High Gear

Regular interval training and coordination exercises such as ping-ping games for handiness, soccer or other games will enhance a player’s response-time, an important key characteristic in Counter Strike, with speed, stamina and precision becoming essentials in gaming too. By being fit for this role mentally and physically, each team may grow up, not by making their moves a more intuitive one to keep going well throughout tournaments. I take this and bring in into my management for Counter Strikes and have an even harder impact when playing well.”

A Fitness Legacy

Ahead of an eSports team of players of any background of different skills for Counter-Strike we want these team players ready and set. Our target for an e-Sporter in gaming world means good health and exercise routines can not be seen too long-term and stamina can last too long because players all got thousands hours.

Conclusion

“The values that were acquired during an elite athletic professional experience make them suitable guides for professional CS athletes to continue on track in both cases.” Matt’s expertise from canoe racing world provides mental strength that serves in different competitive eSports activities in parallel, proving to all these skills essential. To help develop these strengths for team development and winning is always available to a group and always more. He, of course, expects similar physical discipline in gamers due to their very fast reactions needing it most to take games on all of it without delay of exhaustion as is true when running through tracks for canoe.

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FAQ

1. When did you first get into gaming?

Matt began even though having spent entire the career of the sport, has he always loved video games.

2. What do you mean, you mentioned some exercises related to reactivity?