• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Actually, sports correlates more with wealth than any innate physical traits. People pay to put their kids in sports.

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      and in professional sports (at the top end) athletes have hit both their bodily limits (where you cannot just train more or harder, and where sustaining that state of maxed stats all by itself might slowly damage your body, and where any slight mistake in your technique could mean huge damage to your body and an early end to your career) and their equipment must also be top notch each year.