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In today’s world, sports have gone to a new level of competition and excitement. Most sports nowadays consist of stronger, faster, smarter, and more prepared athletes . Young teenagers all over the world start training at a very competitive level to succeed and make a career at the sport that they love. Everyday , athletes become stronger and better at there sport at a young age, this is happening because teenagers are physically training every single day non stop to improve there skills and perform better at there sport. Teenagers will train allday, everyday, just to succeed and accomplish there dreams of becoming professional athletes, but dreams are very often ruined because these athletes push there bodies to the extreme without rest and run into serious physical injuries. Competitive sports are lots of fun, but they can also be very stressful on your body. Training everyday without proper stretching and lack of rest can lead to very serious injuries that could jeopardize your athletic career. All the time we hear about sport injuries that occur at a professional level, at a amateur level, and even during an activity in a school gym class. Sport injuries occur all the time, and they can’t always be prevented, but there are things you can do to decrease the chances of them happening. The best things you can do are to have a good warmup before doing any activity, have enough sleep and rest, a good diet, and to stay in good shape so that when you play a sport there is not as much stress on your body and you are not as tired . My name is Carlos Martinez, and I have put together a report based on my experience with sport injuries and how I have dealt with them. I began to play baseball when I was 10 years old as a hobby, by the age of 14, I had committed myself to this sport and developed a dream to become a professional baseball player. At the age of 15, I was selected to play in a very competitive team in the AA league of the OBA( Ontario Baseball Association ) called the Ottawa Hitmen. I had never played in a competitive team and did not know what to expect, the first practices were awful for me because I was not in the proper physical shape, I would throw up after every practice because my body could not keep up with this intense training, as the weeks went buy I started to become stronger and faster, and I no longer had a problem with our weekly practices.
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