Our published research measured elite esports players against elite karate athletes and a reference population of over two thousand people. The players won on decision speed, attentional control, and multitasking. What most of them never train is the body that carries those abilities through hour six of a competition. That is the work we do.
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From our 2025 comparative study of elite esports players, elite karate athletes, and a population reference dataset, using qEEG, cognitive testing, and the BARD competency framework.
Elite esports and karate athletes measured, benchmarked against a reference dataset of 2,083 people.
Esports players showed measurable advantages in executive attentional control, perceptual decision speed, and multitasking.
Distinct neurocognitive adaptations confirm it: esports expertise behaves like athletic expertise. Which means it responds to training, sleep, and recovery.
Szabella et al. (2025), Multimodal Cognitive and Neurophysiological Differences Between Esports Players, Traditional Athletes, and the General Population. Read the paper · All publications
Four systems that decide whether your ability shows up in game. Every protocol is built from the research literature and tested in coaching practice.
Strength and conditioning designed for people who compete sitting down: posture, neck, wrist, and general capacity, in short sessions that fit around scrims and work.
Consistently timed sleep is the strongest legal performance enhancer available to a competitive player. We rebuild your schedule around when you actually play.
Breaks, movement, eyes, and hands. The habits that prevent the third-hour fade and the overuse injuries that quietly end competitive careers.
A repeatable pre-match protocol for body and focus, plus the stamina to hold decision quality through long series.
Six weeks of one-on-one coaching built around your game, your schedule, and your body. A coach with a doctorate reviews your week, every week.
Health screening before acceptance. 18+. Performance coaching, not medical care. Refund policy
Week one starts here: a full performance and health assessment, not a generic plan.
No funnel, no sales call. A short conversation, then six weeks of work.
DM the word RESET on Instagram. I ask two questions: how many hours a day you are at a desk, and whether the main issue is energy, pain, or performance. If the Reset is not right for you, I will say so.
If it fits, I send a payment link. One payment, €199 at the founding rate, nothing recurring. Eight places per cycle.
You land on a private welcome page with a short intake form: your game, your week, your training history, and a health screening. I read it properly and come back within 48 hours.
We go through your baseline together and agree what success looks like in six weeks. Two days later your training plan and sleep protocol land, built for your schedule and your equipment.
You train, I adjust. A 20-minute check-in call every week, messages between them on weekdays. In week six we measure against what you wrote down in week zero.
I have spent ten years on one question: what makes an esports player perform, and keep performing. My doctorate at ELTE Budapest examined the relationship between physical activity and esports performance, and my current research measures how elite players' brains and bodies actually work, from qEEG markers to fine motor skills.
The work spans three rooms that rarely meet: the laboratory, where I publish first-author research on player cognition; the federation boardroom, where I hold governance roles across Olympic sport and esports; and the practice floor, where I coach professionals and ambitious players on the physical side of their game.
Few people in Europe work across all three. That combination, not any single title, is what IRL Athlete is built on.
A professional I coach, and players I worked with at Spirit Esports before IRL Athlete had a name. The brand is new. The work is not.
At the start I thought every hour I did not spend practising at the computer was an hour wasted. I do not think that any more. Sometimes an hour of training is worth far more than an hour at the keyboard, and the result at the end is better because of it.
Spirit was the only team I knew that treated mental and physical health as part of what happens in a match. My own training had dropped off while we were preparing for the national championship. Oliver pulled me back into it, and it was real support, not just words. The way I think about health today is one of the most important things I carry, and he was the main reason it took shape.
I got to play on a team that wanted to build something lasting for Hungarian esports, and the team owner had a lot to do with the way I changed how I live. I went from 120 kg to 85 kg. Diet and the gym did it, and I kept going because he kept telling me not to give up. I train three or four times a week now and I keep goal for an amateur football side. I feel good in my own skin, and I owe part of that to him.
Oliver kept telling me the same thing, that training would change more than how I look. I did not really believe him. I did it anyway, and a hundred and twenty days later the photos were the smallest part of it. He was right. Everything else falls into place too.
Shared with permission. Individual experiences from players I coach and have coached, not from Reset clients. Results vary from person to person.
Performance audits, player health programme design, pre-tournament preparation camps, and staff training for esports organisations, academies and universities. Assessment, protocols, and a measurable baseline your staff can maintain after I leave. On-site support where it makes sense.
Scoped to what the team actually needs, so every engagement is quoted individually. Tell me the roster size, the calendar, and the problem you are trying to solve.