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When I was a kid, I thought that I hated all sports. The only types of sports that I was exposed to, after all, were team sports. I was a pretty coordinated kid, but I wasn't a very good team player. I didn't have an easy time paying attention to the instructions of the coach, and I wanted to do everything on my own. I didn't really care whether our team won or lost. If I had been competing on my own, I think I might have liked it better. Nevertheless, I assumed that sports just weren't for me until I reached the age of 20.
That is when one of my friends turned me on to some other types of sports. He was involved in all types of adventure sports. He loved rock climbing, off-road biking, and many other activities that I had never even contemplated before. I had never really thought about these as sports before, but the seriousness with which he took his activities made me realize that that was precisely what they were. They were competitive sports, and he excelled in them. He was not a professional, of course, but he was an athlete nonetheless.
I went out on excursions with them to try all types of adventure sports. We would hike for miles a day, climb up steep walls, dive into waterfalls, and in general enjoy ourselves in the great outdoors. At first, I was terrible at it. I had always been in very bad shape owing to the fact that I was not interested in any of the types of sports that I had been exposed to in school.
Once I was able to enjoy sporting activity where I was only competing against myself, however, I soon got good at what I was doing. I worked out like a demon, and was sporting a six pac stomach and incredibly muscled arms by the end of the year. At the age of 23, I felt better than I ever had before, and I was only getting stronger. Nowadays, I enjoy mountain biking as my main type of sport. Any kind of outdoor recreation, however, holds my interest. I hope that this article can serve as a lesson for kids who think that they don't like sports at all. Maybe you just haven't been exposed to the right sport for you yet! Try doing something that seems adventurous, and you might be surprised by what you find.
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