Each sport requires different skills but, currently, to reach high levels, it is essential to have a good physical condition. It is quite obvious in sports such as football and rugby or athletics, but it is also valid in motorsports or even scuba diving.

The performances required to reach high level of competition have become so tough that to play in the big leagues, you have to put all the assets on your side.

If before, you could just be talented or just train hard to get there, today you need not only to have a genetic potential, to train hard in your discipline, but often you also need an auxiliary training of bodybuilding, basic fitness or even relaxation.

The difficulty is often to reconcile these physical or mental trainings with the schedules of the trainings in ones’ discipline to increase ones’ performances without overtraining. Because to reach a high level, avoiding injuries are a determining factor. Out of 100 athletes who start a dis-cipline, only one will manage to get to the top. The others will have to give up or will not want to go higher, conscious or not of their limits, or more simply will be injured and will be denied ac-cess to high competition. Many coaches do not hesitate to put their foals under pressure from a very young age to recreate as early as possible the stressful conditions of the competition, at the risk of disgusting more than one ... But in this environment, the end sometimes justifies the means. The goal here is not to take sides with this practice but just to address the subject.