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Any general balance, agility, coordination or reaction time exercises will be of benefit, remembering to use the right techniques while you do them to avoid injury, but focussing on the specific skills that benefit your preferred sport or exercise will help you improve your technique (and probably, therefore, enjoy doing it even more).

All exercise can lead to improved motor skills.  Things like better hand-eye coordination, agility, balance and faster reaction time can all make daily life a little more enjoyable (catching the toast before it hits the floor, butter-side down!).

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When paired with a high refresh rate, TN panel gaming monitors provide a buttery-smooth gaming experience at an affordable price, which is why they are usually the first choice of many professional FPS gamers.

In 2022, LG Display developed the first IPS Black panel, which increases the static contrast ratio to around 2,000:1. However, there aren’t many high refresh rate models with this technology yet. You can check out all IPS Black monitors here.

As with so much in life, a balanced approach is often the best way to get the most from something, so try to build all of the five ‘S’s into your activity regularly.

They can be quite bright, and more expensive models will have more vibrant colors, but not as good as that of IPS or VA panel alternatives.

VA panels have the highest contrast ratio, but it usually comes at the cost of slower response time, so they’re excellent for watching movies, but not suitable for competitive gaming. TN panels have the highest refresh rates and fastest response times, but have inferior image quality and viewing angles.

In the past, IPS monitors were more expensive than TN models with the same specs. Nowadays, some IPS monitors are only slightly (if at all) more costly than their TN counterparts.

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So, blacks will be noticeably deeper on VA monitors, but this technology has disadvantages of its own, which we’ll get into later on.

If you’re watching particularly dark content in a dark room, you will be able to notice light ‘glowing’ around the corners of the screen. This is an expected side effect caused by the excess light passing through the panel.

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To rival the excellent image quality of OLED displays made possible by their basically infinite contrast ratio, some IPS and VA panel monitors are equipped with quantum dots for a wider color gamut and mini LED full-array local dimming (FALD) backlights.

All of these panels imply wide viewing angles, consistent colors and good pixel response time, but naturally, some are better than others.

Some strength-building activities are what we would describe as anaerobic exercise.  These use a different form of energy to the stamina, aerobic activities we’ve just discussed, instead using energy quickly and helping build those fast twitch muscle fibres. Although you might feel tired afterwards, you might not feel as breathless as you might after a cardio workout.  These anaerobic exercises tend to focus around weight or resistance training and typically include activities like weight-lifting, Pilates or HIIT (high-intensity interval training).

All in all, even if you’re a competitive gamer and don’t care much about image quality, a modern IPS monitor is the way to go as you get just as fast response times as that of old TN displays, but better image quality and viewing angles too.

You can find more information in our comprehensive gaming monitor buyer’s guide or one of the other guides on our website — depending on whether you need a monitor for photo-editing, office work, etc.

For color-critical work, we highly recommend IPS monitors, but you can also use VA displays for basic content creation where color accuracy isn’t crucial.

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Regular stretching, particularly after exercise, helps keep muscles strong and healthy, ensuring flexibility and a good range of movement in our joints and our body as a whole.  During exercise, our muscles tend to shorten and feel tight so a thorough stretch afterwards lengthens them again, allowing the blood to flow back into them, restoring oxygen and flushing away toxins that may have built up.  This can shorten your recovery time and reduce achy muscles.  In turn, this helps keep muscles stronger which reduces the likelihood of future injuries or strains.

The viewing angles aren’t an issue as long as you’re sitting in front of the monitor, apart from some gamma/saturation shifts, so if you’ve got a limited budget and care more about performance than pretty colors, a TN panel monitor is for you.

However, OLED panels are susceptible to permanent image burn-in and temporary image retention, and they cannot get as bright as some LED-backlit panels.

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Generally, these minor consistency issues aren’t really noticeable in everyday use, but they are bothersome when it comes to color-critical work, which is the main reason designers opt for IPS monitors.

We’ll start off with TN panels, which are nowadays mostly found in gaming monitors as they have the quickest response time speed.

Some newer VA panels, such as those used in the Odyssey G7 and the KTC M27T20, are actually just as fast as some IPS models with 1ms GtG response time!

In other words, a certain shade of red, for instance, might not look the same at the top of the image and at the center of a VA panel monitor from the same viewing position due to gamma shifts.

While IPS and TN panels usually have a contrast ratio of around 1,000:1, most VA panels have a contrast ratio between 2,500:1 and 4,000:1, with more expensive models offering even higher contrast.

Due to their higher native contrast ratio, VA panels have less noticeable blooming than IPS panels (provided that both monitors have the same number of dimming zones).

Some manufacturers also use different marketing terms for their IPS monitors, such as SS IPS, Rapid IPS, Agile-Splendor IPS, etc.

Nowadays, most IPS monitors have just as fast pixel response time speed as TN panels (~1ms), though there are still some slower IPS variants with 4 to 5ms.

Speed training puts your muscles through a fuller range of motion, helping to improve your flexibility and the balance between opposing groups of muscles.  It helps to increase your agility and accuracy, and forces those fast twitch muscle fibres into action.  It also helps to build muscle memory to mimic the movements you might make during a match or race.

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IPS panels provide the most accurate and consistent colors as well as wide 178° viewing angles, meaning that you can look at the screen from basically any angle without the image shifting in color and contrast.

TN monitors have the worst color reproduction and narrow viewing angles (170° horizontally, 160° vertically), which causes the image to shift in color, contrast and brightness when it’s looked at skewed angles.

Stamina is your ability to continue doing something for an extended period.  It can apply to mental activities but, of course, we’re talking about physical stamina here.  Improving your physical stamina helps you to better endure stress or discomfort when exercising. It helps reduce fatigue and exhaustion, allowing you to perform activities at a higher or faster rate using less energy.  It also helps you to be less susceptible to injuries caused by tiredness.

Longer runs or workouts help your body build what we call ‘slow twitch muscle fibres’.  These are the fibres which will use energy slowly and steadily, allowing them to work for a longer time without running out of energy.  By contrast, ‘fast twitch muscle fibres’ are all about strength and power, when you need short bursts of energy.  Fast twitch fibres use energy quickly so will get tired more quickly.

Still, since mini LED FALD TVs and monitors can get a lot brighter than OLED displays and don’t have the risk of burn-in, some users prefer them despite slower response times and blooming artifacts.

Now, another thing to keep in mind is that IPS panels don’t have as high contrast as VA panels. A standard IPS monitor has a static contrast ratio of around 1,000:1, whereas a VA alternative has around 3,000:1, or even higher.

Keep in mind that there are several variations of IPS panels depending on the manufacturer, and you will also find them named differently. These are the most current versions you should know:

They also offer instantaneous pixel response time speed and don’t suffer from backlight bleeding, IPS/VA glow, blooming or similar visual artifacts.

Stretching can also help to stave off the reduced mobility than can come as we get older and maintain our posture, helping prevent and heal conditions like back ache.  Stretching before exercise can also help prepare your muscles and may help your performance in an activity but be careful not to overstretch a muscle before it’s warmed up.

That’s it! Hopefully, we’ve helped you pick the perfect panel type for you, but there are many other things to consider when buying a new monitor, such as screen size, resolution and refresh rate.

Even though their specified response time speed may be the same as that of an average IPS display (4-5ms), they actually have a lot slower black to white pixel transition.

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These displays have a certain number of dimming zones (for instance, 1152) spread across the panel that can dim areas of the screen that are supposed to be dark without greatly affecting areas that are supposed to remain bright, thus further increasing the contrast ratio.

OLED panels are different from IPS, TN and VA panels because they don’t rely on a backlight to produce an image – instead, each pixel produces its own light. This allows OLED displays to produce true blacks as pixels can completely turn off.

Thanks to their high contrast and lack of IPS glow, VA panel displays are particularly great for watching movies in a dark room where details in the shadows of the picture really stand out, which is why most LED TVs use VA panels, not IPS.

You should choose between different panel types according to what you’ll mostly be using the monitor for — gaming, color-critical work, or watching movies and other everyday activities.

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Of course, many enjoyable activities combine both anaerobic and aerobic training, stamina and strength.  A good session digging the garden, an evening’s rocking the dance floor or a long-distance cycle ride or walk will cover both.  Whatever activity you choose, try to make sure some strength training features in your weekly programme.

Developing a strong body helps to build strong, healthier muscles and bones. It can ensure you retain good posture and relieve back pain. You’ll have more stability, balance, and flexibility, making injuries and falls less likely.  There are many different types of activity that will help you build strength so there is bound to be something that you enjoy.  Whether you are a professional sports person or simply someone who likes to stay active, strengthening your core muscles will have benefits for all of us.

Consequently, in dark scenes, you get noticeable black smearing behind fast-moving objects, which can be distracting for competitive gaming.

Stretching is also great for our mental health.  If we’re feeling stressed or worried, we often hold that tension physically as well as in our minds; our neck, shoulders or stomach are common places where physical tightness is triggered by stress or emotion.  Tension headaches can be another symptom.  So as well as being good for your body, a mindful stretching session can also be brilliant for our minds too.

LG is also bringing back the A-TW polarizer on some of their models, such as the LG 32GQ950. This helps reduce IPS glow at the cost of introducing a minor purple glow at extreme angles.

In fact, there are VA panels that have just as good or better colors than certain IPS monitors, but the colors on those VA displays won’t be as consistent as that of the IPS technology due to the narrower viewing angles (even though both IPS and VA monitors usually specify 178° viewing angles).

Further, through the use of localized dimming, the contrast ratio can be significantly improved on LED-backlit monitors. However, unless an expensive full-array local dimming solution is used, there’s basically no meaningful improvement.

The ASUS PG248QP offers the highest 540Hz refresh rate available at the moment, along with exceptional MBR implementation, rapid response time and even decent image quality thanks to its wide color gamut.

IPS panels offer the most consistent colors and a quick pixel response time speed as well as the widest viewing angles, but they don’t have as high contrast ratio as VA panels, and they are usually more expensive.

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The key to a balanced exercise programme is not to concentrate on just one aspect of your training.  Partly because this reduces the chances of you getting bored, but it is key to build all-round fitness and a well-balanced body.  (We’ve all heard the anecdotes about those who focus on lifting weights so much that their biceps are huge, but their triceps have practically given up!)  This is part of the reason that, for example, Olympic rowers will hop on a bicycle or rugby players will go for a swim; it helps to work on different muscles to those they use all the time and keep their bodies all-round in shape.

This allows them to display deeper blacks and an overall more pronounced relation between the darkest and the brightest tones.

With that in mind, here are the five S’s of a balanced exercise programme.  Try to ensure that you build each one into your weekly exercise to help ensure that you stay all-round fit too.

Therefore, these monitors offer the most balanced image quality and performance with deep blacks and fast pixel transitions, but they are also more expensive and have some other flaws, as explained in the reviews.

Sprinting is perhaps the typical speed training exercise but agility drills and interval training, like jumping or hopping motions, can be just as effective if you prefer shorter bursts of activity. Try to build some speed-based activities into your routine where you can.

All three panel technologies have their advantages and disadvantages, so it’s vital to choose the one that’s perfect for you.

Of course, there will be some skills training that are particularly relevant to the sports and activities of your choice.  For example, if tennis is your game, general cardiovascular stamina and flexibility will allow you to play but skills like agility and hand-eye coordination will allow you to become even better at it.

For a lot of gamers, even these slower IPS panel monitors will provide a satisfactory fast-paced gaming experience as ghosting is barely noticeable.

All newer TN monitors will offer a rapid ~1ms response time (gray to gray pixel transition or ‘GtG’ for short), which eliminates ghosting/trailing behind fast-moving objects.

If you intend to compete in a sport, it’s fairly obvious that speed training will be critical to producing your best performance times.  But why is speed important to all of us?

Stamina-based exercises are also likely to be a good cardio (heart) workout, or what we’d describe as aerobic exercise.  Aerobic means ‘with oxygen’ and indicates that your heart is pumping hard and you’re probably breathing heavily too. Improving your cardiovascular endurance will make you fitter in daily life and can lessen your risk of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke.  Experts suggest that we should all do at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise at least three times a week.

In demanding scenes, this can lead to blooming as even 1152 dimming zones on a 27″ sized display can’t compare to essentially over 8 million dimming zones of a 4K OLED display.

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Some users prefer the higher contrast of VA panels, while others would rather have more consistent colors, so it’s up to what you personally prefer.

Not everyone is equally sensitive to this issue, and many gamers don’t mind a bit of smearing as they get a higher contrast ratio.

It’s rather tolerable as it’s only mildly bothersome in certain scenarios i.e., watching dark scenes of a movie/game in a dim-lit room with high brightness setting. In some rare cases, mainly due to poor quality control, IPS glow can be distracting, in which case you should RMA the monitor.

Apart from the screen resolution, the display’s panel type will have the most significant impact on the overall image quality.