Q: hi mike im 17 .185lbs 6foot i play all kinds of sports rec basketball i play varsity baseball and golf for my school and when playing basketball like if i run up and down the court twice im out of breath and tired ...and i sweat alot but i drink alot of water i dosent make any sence to me im always playing sports and always out of breath p.s. do to sports i run/ baseball basketball and walk/ golf 18 holes what can i do is there something wrong here

A: There isn't anything wrong with that. What you probably do is sprint up and down the court as fast as you can and that will exhaust you, no matter how good shape you are in. Look at 200m Olympic sprinters, for example -- they are absolutely exhausted after just 20 seconds of running. The point here is that if you sprint all-out you will be exhausted very quickly. If, however, you run slower than full speed then you'll be able to run at that pace much longer without exhaustion. At any sport you need to not only be in good shape, but also know your pace.

As far as drinking water and sweating those are both good and normal as well.

One thing you could do to improve sport-specific conditioning when you have to go with spurts of all-out sprinting interspersed with slower jogging or running is do some HIIT. In HIIT you alternate 30-second or so intervals of all-out sprinting efforts with 30-second recovery periods when you jog lightly. A single HIIT session can last 5 to 15 minutes or 5-15 all-out 30-second efforts alternative with 5-15 30-second revory periods. You shouldn't overdo HIIT so 2-3 such sessions per week is all that's needed. You can start HIIT at 2 sessions per week, 5 minutes per session and add 1 minute each week till you do two 15-minute sessions per week.