AAU has become a big contributor to the physical stress that gets put on high school athlete. During the off season of the athlete’s favorite sport, an athlete will continue to keep working on their game. This becomes the starting point of where the problem starts. First the AAU coach will want the player to give it all they’ve got at their practice. Then the high school coach will want them to give them all they’ve at their practice. During this whole time the athlete will still need to get in the weight room. While in lifting they will still need to go through a hard work out. This whole cycle will continue for seven days a week and puts a lot of physical stress on your body. This stress doesn’t show up right away but will eventually shows. This added physical stress will show when playing college ball or even when the athlete goes pro. (BE: 12) The athlete will tend to have knee problems or stress fractures later down the …show more content…
Usually the stress starts with the school homework and then sports will add to that. The stress from work will just go on top of that that for the final blow. Whether emotional stress from school, or physical stress from sports, or even mental stress from work. Students need to have Sundays off. They should leave sports and work out of their day. The only thing that a student needs to do on a Sunday afternoon is sleep or maybe do some homework. That way with Sunday the student receives at least one day of rest which will give their body much needed