It's kind of obvious these habits are bad for both physical and mental health. Build season took a huge toll on me physically and mentally, especially my senior year of high school. I went through a nasty caffeine withdrawal and was generally depressed and irritable the rest of the summer due to competition season being so stressful for me.
I think instead of bragging about how unhealthy we eat, or how many energy drinks we drink, we should be thinking about why we normalize that, or boast about that. There's a certain kind of
ableism that comes with those statements - a kind of warning to others who may not have the mental or physical energy to participate in build season that they won't be able to make it. Even apart from ableism, it shows to others when people only focus on the negative habits that build season may not be worth participating in.
My team's build season was high impact, 6 weeks 6 days a week for as long as we needed. Of course, it wasn't required to go every day, but I think it was you had to go to 60% of meetings. Reflecting on build season with a friend of mine who was chronically ill, we noticed that this was not healthy for either of us.
Not to derail, but does anyone have any healthy habits that arise from build season? I never procrastinate during build, and I really learned a lot more about self care. Build season shouldn't be a period of time to develop obsessive and unhealthy habits, much less to boast about them.
tl;dr: any good habits? or just a lot of mtn dew?