Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Resolved: Pokemon should replace cash scholarships with fitness equipment.

Exercise isn't really an issue, obviously children get exercise from playing.
It's the anaerobic exercise that is so dangerous.
Playing football for an hour and a half is less damaging to muscle tissue than, say, lifting weights or repeated/prolonged sprinting.
That 'sprinting' action (forcing your muscles to work very hard, all at once) is what's bad for children.
Encouraging children to lose weight through deliberate, intense exercise isn't very healthy. You ought to encourage natural, low-intensity, low-impact exercise and a healthy diet.

Like, yes, playing football... or you know, pretending that you're on a pokemon journey

Plus, I am a big proponent of changing how sports teams below the high school level choose their coaches, because they're doing a lot of things that aren't good for their kids... and, some of those kids are fare enough into puberty to not be at much risk, but, you know all those torn ACLs and blown shoulders that athletes get their senior year of high school/ freshman year of college? Hmm, wonder how their joints got so weak in the first place...?

No, I don't support the way sports are governed in schools. So there.
 
I think if Pokemon were to do anything like this they should give away free deodorant or something as well. Fat people I at least don't have to look at and can look away. But when your at an event and someone stinks and you have to play next to them what can you do :/. Who wants to play a game with a bunch of stinky people.
 
^I can just SEE the ad for that.

"Why smell like Skuntank when you can smell like Bellossom? Your Sweet Scent will lure in more Pokémon - and trainers - than the Poison Gas you have right now! Trainers with Odor Sleuth won't give a Sweet Kiss to those who can't Refresh!"
 
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charcharchar said:
That 'sprinting' action (forcing your muscles to work very hard, all at once) is what's bad for children. Encouraging children to lose weight through deliberate, intense exercise isn't very healthy. You ought to encourage natural, low-intensity, low-impact exercise and a healthy diet.

No, I don't support the way sports are governed in schools. So there.
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So all the high-school rowing clubs are bad for kids, if they start too early? Or if the coaches don't take care to make sure that the main focus is technique and not power? I'm curious because I've kind of adopted that though.

And yeah, school baseball where I'm from is terrible. They have thirteen-year-olds throwing side-arm and curveballs. So bad.
 
yes, anyone who hasn't finished puberty should take extra care when exercising. That's the point of childhood- it's supposed to be a protective period for you both physically and emotionally.

Learning techniques at a young age is fine, but there is a reason there is such a huge disparity in the skills of high school athletes and middle school- in high school there are adolescents whose muscle tissue is fully developed and functioning properly. Trying to make kids who aren't fully developed perform as well as those other kids is dangerous.

Yes, just like trying to teach children to throw side-arm. One of those kids' arm could pop off like a Barbie doll's.... well, not really, but you get the idea...

Anyway, I'm done. Bye.
 
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