>>1499459>The sport alters your bodyYes, but beside the point. A sport develops the aids when improving only tangentially involves the sport itself. To oversimplify karate alters the body, for MMA, douchebags hit the weightroom. Skating (board) alters the body, for gymnastics, faeries starve themselves to make weight.
Mountaineering, to jump on the ongoing conversation, alters the body. To improve at rock climbing, donkeyporkers go to rooms covered in concrete lumps, fast repeatedly, lift weights, and wear spandex bodycondoms.
>Well then everything...No. The essence of example A requires only example A. Example B is only widely practiced with tangential training.
But fundamentally, there's no point in limiting yourself because your sport is full of shitheads. I like lifting, combat, fast bikes, and fishing. Imagine the chuckleheads who form an entire identity behind any one of these.
