When I was younger, as a kid with a disability I played adaptive sports.

I first played baseball as a young kid. Well, after that, I did track and field, and I played wheelchair basketball.

One of the things I wish I did was keep myself in better shape.

When I was a teenager I made three mistakes as a adaptive athlete.

My first mistake was that I ate what I wanted, and I ate multiple times a day. Not good when you have spina bifida and you’re trying to play sports and stay in shape at the same time. I never sweat but still, I was not in shape to play sports to begin with.

Another mistake I made was not drinking water as I found out in my thirties leading into my 40s helps tremendously with everything it helps with skin care bladder care it helps with the digestive system as well and taking the extra weight off of you if you do have extra weight but I was too young and stupid to understand that but I think I paid for it too. I didn’t understand the importance of drinking water at that age but now that I’m 41 I realize that now. The problem was that I drank too much Pepsi, and to be completely honest the majority of the time I never drank water.

I also wish I catheterized myself better than I did. My entire life I’ve had bladder issues which affected everything in my life.

Being overnight and having a weak bladder is not a good combination, plus not drinking water. It just leads to a lot of problems.

Another issue was that I didn’t practice with the team as much as I should of.

I believe every adaptive athlete should practice whatever sport they’re in drink water and try to eat right whether it be just eating less or eating healthy foods.

If I could tell anybody anything to do the opposite of what I did when I did Sports as a kid I feel like I would have been better off.

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