Athletes: The Breaking Point Of Conditioning

For many years, sports of all kinds, and those sports coaches have pushed their athletes or their children beyond their physical and mental breaking point. Is it the kids who sign up for these activities; or the coaches taking their coaching ability too far? In sports today, athletes almost feel pressured to participate in activities where all the coaches do is bring them down and lower their self-esteem. Coaches who push “workouts” or “not mandatory practices” way before the season starts, and basically threaten their athletes to go to workouts/ practices or they will not make the team. Although many talented students are athletes and those athletes teams are successful; coaches and student-teachers are pushing these talented athletes to their “breaking point”. …show more content…
Many coaches, not all, but most are extremely manipulative and expect you and your team to make no errors and come out with the win or the championship trophy. In reality you cannot win every game or every tournament, and the lost games should be a lesson learned not a reason to give conditioning every day of the next week until the athletes bodies cannot handle much more and they began to become injured. There are many reasons behind the point of conditioning but there is also other ways to get your athletes in shape without pushing it over the edge. After all, maybe the coaches want this, and maybe they just want to see how much we can handle.
Moreover coaches and student-teachers pressuring teenagers into these sports, or pressuring them into going into practices/ workouts. Many athletes or even teenagers grew up into these sports and it is almost impossible to take the season or seasons off. Theses