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What are the possible advantages and drawbacks of being a professional athlete?

#athlete
Sport promotes mental and physical health. Everybody needs to exercise for keeping healthy.
However
, being a professional
athlete
 is so hard and needs lots of
exercise
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exercises
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.is
this
 essay I write about the benefits and drawbacks of
the
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professional
athletes
. There are oodles of advantages of exercising professional. The
first
 advantage is being famous. When an
athlete
 plays professionally and becomes a professional
athlete
, he or she will start to play in national champions. She or he will start to play in national champions.
thus
, she will be shown on tv.
As a result
, he or she was seen by people and everybody will know him. The
second
 advantage is earning more money. as we know, when someone is famous, the country press will invite him or her for their advertising. So, he or she can earn money in different ways.
Although
 being a professional
athlete
 has lots of benefits, it has some disadvantages too. The
first
 one is that
athletes
 have to hard practice every day for many years.
For example
, professional football players have to spend 5 hours a day running and 2 hours on bodybuilding and they have to play football when they are 16 years old. The
second
 disadvantages are hard to diet. Professional
athletes
 have to eat special food because hard practices need food with lots of calories and protein.
For example
, professional football players have to eat 2 potatoes with 5 eggs every day. So, they cannot eat every food. In summary, being famous and earning more money are two benefits of
a professional
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professional athletes
a professional athlete
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athletes
However
, it has some disadvantages too. The
first
 is that
athlete
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an athlete
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 needs to hard practice for many years and the
second
 is that he or she has to get a hard diet.
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