[y_gy]

The "brain vs brawn" is one of the most misguiding stereotypes in our society, surely left over from an older time when training in one necessarily meant less in the other.

In practice, today it's all about discipline. Lots of very smart technologists or financiers are also in great physical shape. The two correlate. (And by extension, if you look at the demographics that are least physically fit, they also tend to be the least educated.)

[nine_k]

Do you mean that you can be a "college athlete", that it, to play in a college's sports team, and it won't take much time or energy from you? You won't have to sacrifice anything?

Being fit does not equal being an athlete in my view, much like being literate does not equal being a writer.

[mike_poplin]

>> Being fit does not equal being an athlete in my view, much like being literate does not equal being a writer.

Precisely. I am quite fit but only a decent athlete. Two different things.