Gamer muscles?

[DaltonM]

I have a really small sample size, but I feel like gamers, particularly those who have used controllers for years, have pronounced hand muscles by their thumbs.

 

Try it now, simply squeeze your thumb in it's hand, and you should see a muscle extrude. I find that non gamers don't have as large of a bump when they do this. I have attached pcitures of this phenomenon. Try it yourself, as other people, gamer or not, and report back.

 

Am I crazy? Or do you develope muscles from twiddling sticks??

[DarkEnergy]

Gamers = thumb wrestling champions?

[Cypher-Jackson]

Makes sense to me

[Levent]

It looks you use your left hand for other purposes more than gaming.

[RejZoR]

1 minute ago, Levent said:

It looks you use your left hand for other purposes more than gaming.

Using joystick a lot...

[DaltonM]

38 minutes ago, Levent said:

It looks you use your left hand for other purposes more than gaming.

Gotta use em both

[Guest]

Everyone has those. 

[Guest]

I think you develop muscles since I hardly ever play on console and I actually find it somewhat painful to use a controller because it's fatiguing to my hands. Almost everyone else I know uses a console and not a pc though and they never experience thumb pain.

[DaltonM]

1 hour ago, floofer said:

Everyone has those. 

True, but I find that non gamers aren't as pronounced.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, DaltonM said:

True, but I find that non gamers aren't as pronounced.

It doesn't depend on whether you 'game' or not. Its just if you use the muscle more and how much fat you have, simple as that. 

[DaltonM]

Just now, floofer said:

It doesn't depend on whether you 'game' or not. Its just if you use the muscle more and how much fat you have, simple as that. 

Now we're being pedantic. Of course it comes down to using the muscles. I feel that gaming is the most common use for this particular muscle (set of muscles?) That's why I said gamer. 

[imreloadin]

5 hours ago, DaltonM said:

Am I crazy? Or do you develope muscles from twiddling sticks??

My right arm is swole af from twiddling my stick

[TetraSky]

1 hour ago, imreloadin said:

My right arm is swole af from twiddling my stick

Man, you must really be into flight sims.

[imreloadin]

2 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Man, you must really be into flight sims.

I like the cut of your jib.

[Arika]

"yeah, I work out, come on home and ill show you my muscles"

[WereCatf]

I just spent 25 minutes trying to find a muscle... didn't find a single one.

[trevb0t]

8 hours ago, WereCatf said:

I just spent 25 minutes trying to find a muscle... didn't find a single one.

Indeed. If mine's there, it's hidden under a bunch of... Hand.

And I twiddle my stick a ton.

[Froody129]

I don't use a controller really any more, but my forearms have some pretty cool definition from a combination of very low body fat and lots of typing

[AndreiArgeanu]

When playing games using a controller you don't build muscles, not even endurance. The "exercise" of using a controller doesn't require your muscles to work hard. The way to build muscle is by tearing the muscle which then regenerates creating additional muscle tissue, to tear muscles you need to use heavy weights and low repetitions. Unless you have a special controller which weighs a few kilograms and the buttons and thumbsticks require a lot of force to press and push them then you don't really build muscles. So the look of your hand is not purely dependent of whether you play with a controller or not.