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Maybe we're trying to solve too many problems at the same time. In analogy with Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately, I'd guess that the activity that best promotes physical fitness isn't the activity that best trains transferable skills isn't the activity that is the most fun, so spending some time on something intended to improve physical fitness, some time on something intended to train transferable skills and some time on something intended to be fun is probably better than spending a lot of time on something that haphazardly tries to achieve all three. (Also, which activity is best for a given goal is likely to vary from person to person, so beware of other-optimizing.)
Training in organized sport often gives you the benefit of increasing physical fitness, even if it isn't the core of that particular sport. I play baseball and some part of our training is increasing our general fitness, even if we don't particularly need that in the field.
Apart from that, I think you might be on to something.