How do you play sports? Do you rely on your physical ability or your mental strength? To me sports requires both of them. For example, when you are playing baseball, you need to hit the ball with enough force and you need to calculate on where you plan to hit it. This requires mental and physical abilities.
The first topic I’m going to discuss is physical strength. You need physical strength whether to kick a soccer ball or hit a baseball with a bat. In the essay Confessions of a Doper, author Jonathan Vaughters talks about using exercise to prepare for a big race. Vaughters says,“My life on a bike started in middle school. At 5:30 every morning, I popped out of bed with excitement and purpose. Into the dark,freezing Colorado morning I rode. For the next 30 miles, I pushed my heart rate and the pedals as high and as fast as they would go.”(89 ¶6) This text evidence shows how even in cold weather he still rode his bike for practice and to get him prepared for his dream of making it to Tour De France and other major races. He also talks about things he missed out on because he wanted to reach his dream of making it big. Vaughters said,“Then comes the strain on your family. Next, the loss of friends and social contact. While most of my friends were at prom, I was in bed early for a race the next day. And while most kids went to college, I went to a…show more content… Heinrich says,” In itself, this two- or three-thousand-year-old pictograph was not particularly extraordinary. But then I noticed something more, and it sent my mind reeling... figure farthest to the right, the one leading the progression. It had its hands thrown up in the air in the universal runners’ gesture of triumph..."(69 ¶10) This quote shows how spiritual he feels connected to past runner from a long time ago. He understands the feeling of why that man threw his hands up like
