Whether there is for children a profession more seductive, than the astronaut or the businessman? Is! To drive across the field a ball, to swim without budging from a place in the pool or with pleasure to write out pirouettes on ice — the same happiness! And both money pays you for it, and awards the medals, and your name is known to almost each person in the country. The way of the professional athlete could seem, in appearance, to seductive thousands of boys and little girls who are on friendly terms with sport.
However it is necessary to understand a difference between such concepts as physical education and big-time sports. The first is necessary for each person. Walks and games in the fresh air, moderate loadings in the gym, backpackings on the days off — all this promotes maintenance of a tone of muscles, health of a cardiovascular system, good mood.
Another matter — big-time sports. It is very specific sort of both physical, and intellectual activity. The purpose of occupations big-time sports is identification of all opportunities of a human body. Sports activities at the professional level assume mobilization of all internal resources, outlook reorganization, education of such qualities as persistence, diligence, endurance in their most extreme forms. The professional sport does not accept polumer.
Who such professional athletes?
These are people who developed already well expressed physical qualities necessary for some sports activity to the maximum. And, as a rule, development of these qualities becomes to the detriment of all the rest. The professional sport is not all-round development. The person, roughly speaking, is sharpened under one of the most popular sports. Pay attention to how athletes of various specializations from each other differ: zherdeobrazny jumpers, beefy sprinters, the become swollen fighters of Sumo, square throwers of a hammer...
To train on wear till some hours every day is absolutely not that to go to the gym 2-3 times a week. At similar brutal loadings the human body just does not manage to be recovered up to the end. For this reason many athletes finish career with injuries of any given severity.
It is known that each person, including champions, has the ceiling in sport. Yes, there are up-to-date techniques of trainings, there are dietary supplements, protein, vitamin and mineral and other complexes. But all of them allows the athlete to approach his physical limit only. And in present conditions of the severe sports competition of only one approach by no means it is not enough. To squeeze out a maximum of an organism, to induce itself to do impossible and in literal sense only one means — doping can jump above the head.
Today doping scales in the large world championships are that that professional competitions are called not differently today as competitions of pharmaceutical concerns and anti-doping commissions. The first annually develop the latest medicines, and the second — think out the newest ways of their identification.
Doping — one more reason why athletes often finish career disabled people.
Professional age of the athlete
Physical activities on a limit of human opportunities are not for an organism in vain. In fact, the most part of life of the athlete passes in preparation for career take-off. Small children who get to sport at the age of 2-2.5 years, growing up, enter a form approximately in 18 years, and to 30 already retire. However, at skiers, fighters and athletes of a pit happens also longer. Retirement is connected, as a rule, with the fact that the curve of sports results begins to creep steadily down.
Injuries and even assignment of disability at retirement — at all not a rarity for people from big-time sports.