It would have been easy to blame the driver. He was early. We were running late. But in that moment, between the panic and the car line, there was a better lesson available, one about what we can control, what we can’t, and why accountability almost always feels better than blame once you actually try it.
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When he went 3 for 3 at the plate, I asked my son what he was thinking about. His answer stumbled into something athletes spend entire careers and thousands of dollars trying to learn how to access on purpose.
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The research is no longer ambiguous. Each additional hour of prolonged, uninterrupted sedentary behavior is associated with a 9% higher risk of cancer death, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine by researchers at the University of Glasgow. The system that trained us to sit this long starts in kindergarten. This post imagines building something different.
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Most athletes don’t get nutritional support until they reach elite collegiate programs. Meanwhile, their whole families are running on fast food and borrowed time just to make it to practice. This post is about what it would look like to build something different: a facility where training and nourishment happen in the same place, in community, without adding another thing to the list.
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Travel baseball gets recommended for almost every situation where a player wants to grow. But more games without the conditioning foundation to support them doesn’t build better players. It builds injured ones.
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