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You could aim to maintain these three skills artificially, as opposed to just in the real world, for better and safer gain:

You can train essentially all of these by playing Hell Let Loose or something similar. However, it is spatially a slow game and may not involve much reaction relatively, therefore,  you could play a racing game e.g. TrackMania (or Rocket League), or you could play a serious racing game with an actual racing sim setup with a steering wheel.

Additionally, you can play a faster-paced FPS – Operation: Harsh Doorstop.

Such skill carries over to the real world and could save your life.

To play FPS games well, you need mouse acceleration off (called ‘Enhance pointer precision’ in Windows settings), a 1440p monitor with a 144hz refresh rate (or better) and a 1ms response time or faster, and a deskpad (a mousepad that covers all or almost all of your desk) so you can place your keyboard right out of the way and game at a low mouse sensitivity. Avoid messing with the Windows mouse sensitivity settings. You should have one ergonomic wired mouse for general use (e.g. Zowie EC2-C), and a wireless one for gaming e.g. Razer Basilisk V3 X HyperSpeed. You can bind going prone to the extra button and bind leaning to the two side buttons. A quality chair with a headrest, and an electric standing desk, could be good for you.

By using a deskpad, you move your entire arm to play an FPS videogame, and do aim adjustment using your wrist and fingers. An armrest on your chair would probably just get in the way. In a rested position while playing an FPS (i.e. not looking around), your forearm should be more than half on the mousepad, so that it is sufficiently supported.

In gaming, if your chair can swivel, you can sometimes switch between<more so supporting your left arm while your mousing forearm is half or more than half off the desk>, and<more so supporting your mousing arm while your keyboard forearm is half or more than half off the desk>.

There’s nothing special about ‘gaming’ chairs. In many cases, these chairs have "bucket" seats like a race car, which are worse, because race car seats are meant to keep you in the seat when you're driving fast, and when you're gaming you are not going to be thrown around like you're driving a race car.

A G-Sync monitor is best, which you need an NVIDIA graphics card for. You probably then should have V-Sync off in game settings. 

For if your game has a framerate cap setting:

Grok: “If you have adaptive sync (G-Sync/FreeSync), set the cap just below your monitor’s refresh rate (e.g., 142 FPS for a 144Hz monitor) to stay in the sync range and avoid tearing or stuttering.”

There are keyboards with switches that have low actuation distance (e.g. SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL which has variable distance), better for gaming. “TLK” means they lack the extra number keys on the right, giving you more mousing space.

Noctua fans are the best and quietest. You can use a case fan hub (e.g. ARCTIC Case Fan Hub / Corsair Commander PRO) to plug case fans indirectly into your motherboard if there aren’t enough fan headers on your motherboard.

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If you use headphones, open-back ones are best, minimising pressure on your ears (e.g. Audio-Technica ATH-AD700X). These headphones are great for spatial positioning in videogames (to know where sounds come from).

¼ teenagers have hearing loss.

The closer a source of sound is to your ears, the more easily it can damage your hearing.

You can get a hearing test to find out how relatively deaf you might be.

I've found that you don't really need headphones to play Hell Let Loose. I don't use headphones anymore.

If you want good directional audio without headphones, you can get something like the SteelSeries ARENA 7, though I haven't used it.