Which is crazy because even casual research could've told me that going all the way back to Plato (supposedly his wrestling nickname) some of the most intellectually distinguished people in history were also accomplished athletes and/or warriors.

I didn’t know that about Plato!

But I'm also thinking of people like the original Mercury and Apollo astronauts. Hell even Stephen Hawking was on the college rowing team before he started to develop symptoms of his disability.

I said reportedly because it's based on one source who wrote a century after he died, but there's also no counter evidence. "Plato" means "broad" or "wide", like calling someone a unit.