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[quote=Anonymous]It's really hard.

It's even with that recent thread about juggling academics and athletics.

I came to that realization a little while ago.  Where to get good at something and to keep getting good at it, takes a lot of time and effort for a lot of people.  So I give a lot of respect to student athletes.  Those who perform well academically and athletically because see what kind of work it involves to be good at both.

Then with the multiple sports, as others mentioned some sports and seasons go together better then others.  And some people believe that it's good to take a break with some sports to prevent overuse injuries.

In some cases, people might be doing the other sports as offtime, just for fun or leisure.  But for most people it takes a lot of work to be good at multiple sports.  There are some who are just naturally good at them.

But for one of my kids, I see the dropoff they have when they return to a sport after a couple of seasons off and the amount of time it takes them to get back to form.  And unfortunately with how competitive things are, they're sometimes not afforded that period of warming back up unless it's a coach and team who already know them.  I think it was around that point where we had to decide to start dropping activities and choosing what activities to focus on.  I do think that they still had some advantages from playing multiple sports when they were younger and becoming more well rounded athletically though.  At the very least, they got to find what they enjoyed.

btw some linemen have a really quick first step and dash times.  I remember seeing this huge guy, who looked overweight and had issues in other areas of fitness, keep up with if not pass a lot of smaller people in dashes.  And someone explained it was because he was a lineman in football and they needed to have that quick burst of speed for the first several yards or so.[/quote]

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