MOSCOW, Jan 20 The Ministry of Sports of Russia has included running and squats in the federal standard training of e-sportsmen, according to the legal information portal. According to the regulations, men need to run 3 km in 15 minutes, 100 m in 14.4 seconds, crouch 25 times without stopping, tilt from a standing position by +6 cm, raise their torso at least 33 times per minute. Women must cover 2 km in 12 minutes, 100 m in 17.6 seconds, perform 23 squats and +8 cm incline, and raise the torso 32 times in a minute. The program includes «technical excellence», but its parameters are not specified. The document notes that an e-sportsman should devote 25 to 40 percent of his training time to physical training. The list of necessary equipment includes a computer with 16 gigabytes of RAM and a hard drive with a capacity of at least two terabytes, as well as a mouse, keyboard and monitor with a diagonal of at least 19 inches. In Russia, eSports was recognized as a sport in 2016.
