How Many Adults Could Survive a Year on a Junior Athlete’s Schedule?

Picture this: an adult in a business suit, clutching a laptop in one hand and a coffee in the other, bravely stepping onto a treadmill at 7 AM. Ten minutes later, he’s already negotiating with his left knee to not give up. Meanwhile, a 14-year-old kid with a backpack bigger than himself is just finishing warm-ups, smiling, and getting ready for two weekend games.

A junior athlete’s schedule is nothing like a “normal” adult’s. School from 8 AM to 2 PM, training from 4 PM to 8 PM, games on weekends, tournaments during holidays, plus recovery sessions and homework squeezed in between. Add the “tiny” pressure of not missing a single shot in practice, and you realize it’s basically a full-time job combined with an evening master’s degree.

Junior athletes don’t have time for Netflix & chill. They live on Netflix & stretching.

So here’s the kicker: if someone handed you a junior athlete’s schedule for an entire year… would you survive, or start making excuses after the very first week?