Okay, let's say you've taken the first step on a journey to improve in a competitive game. Congrats. You're committed.
But are you?
Are you really?
Answer is probably not. You've got to have a good plan of action for these things usually. It's like exercising, you have to commit and make it a regular thing for it to stick. Just throwing yourself at the game or thing you're trying to get better at without any thought usually will not actually help. You have to...
Use your brain.
Awful. I know. In full sincerity, I struggle with this sometimes. It can be quite difficult to play a game and try and objectively analyze your play as you are playing it. You have to have a good understanding of the situations on a macro level and a micro level, as you focus on your own play and the state of the game as a whole to try and gain those additional insights. It's a huge mental stack! And it's hard.
Which leads me to the type of training I've been doing recently to improve in fps games; Aim training! I sit down 30 minutes every day and follow steps off Aimer's Kovaak's Routine. I do 3 little aim exercises 10 minutes apiece, and I have been for about a month now. Nice and easy way to improve on aim.
Aim is one of those raw skills in an fps game that is purely muscle memory and purely instinctual. As such it is something pretty easy to train. Decision making is involved sometimes, but a lot of the time it is entirely just "Can I have my mouse in the correct position using my hand and arm" and the answer can often be "lol no"
Anyways. Yeah. Video games