The 'Humans into Cybertronians' trope overlook the massive discrepancy on how sports are approached by the the separate species.
I mean, Cybertron would most definitely have clauses that lock in very specific frames to very specific sports, like racers can only be speedsters.
Meanwhile, humans will make anything and everything into a sport as long you can survive the training and the entire run. If there was a human athlete that turned into a Cybertronian, then they would continue their progress, come hell or high water. In some cases, very literal.
Like a human into a racecar, but they're definitely continuing their surfing career. With tsunamis now.
Or someone that turns into a radio and is still killing it on the snowy mountains.
Or a tank that's taking their higher constitution to up their freerunning or parkour complexity and danger levels.
Chess boxing, underwater hockey, extreme ironing, and ferret-legging also exist.
The cyberized humans would have a lot of freedom that they didn't think they had because they never were part of such a structure as well as be far more comfortable utilizing equipment that Cybertronians thought as training aids, obsolete due to their own advances, or flatout weird to them since it's considered a nonpowered mobility aid. Like parachutes, compasses, and skateboards.
The ability to transform is such a huge social phenomenon to Cybertronians that they can't help to completely fixate on it, and get absolutely be baffled that someone that came fresh from a species swap is utterly nonchalant about it. Like, sure, there's excitement and all the mecha are nodding their heads over the newbuild's freshness, but then whiplash because they're going out into the wilds without a proper frame that's meant for it, like what do you mean you go diving into the sea!? You're an EKG machine, aren't you??? (Insert confused bot/con noises)
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