cum on! it's not even close, basketball players are the best athletes
cum on! it's not even close, basketball players are the best athletes
The answer is a top level MMA competitor.
You need stength, quickness, flexibility, coordination and stamina. You need each of qualities not on in the phyiscal sense but just as importantly mentaly.
Of those qualities mentioned I would say stamina/endurance may be the most important but doesn't help much unless you are very good in at least 2 or three of the other areas.
I can't think of any other sort that requires all of these.
MMA fighters are close, I was going to say wrestlers. Wrestling is by far the hardest sport ever. I have been running for over 10 years now, I have done triathlons, I have played hockey, basketball and every other sport you can think of and nothing compares to the toughness of a wrestling practice. To be good, you have to be quick, strong, and fit in all apects of your body. You are using every single muscle in your body. It's like sprinting for 10 minutes straight. A wrestling practice is the hardest thing you'll ever do in your life. Boxing is similar.
For those of you who disagree, you obviously have never wrestled.
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I agree with basketball. When you look at the most athletic basketball players, you find guys who have an unmatched combination of explosive speed and leaping ability, great agility, great coordination for ball handling, passing and shooting, and at least decent endurance for the guys who play a lot of minutes (although this is their biggest weak spot, as they've got nowhere near the endurance of distance runners and cyclists).
Hooker Boots wrote:
MMA fighters are close, I was going to say wrestlers. Wrestling is by far the hardest sport ever. I have been running for over 10 years now, I have done triathlons, I have played hockey, basketball and every other sport you can think of and nothing compares to the toughness of a wrestling practice. To be good, you have to be quick, strong, and fit in all apects of your body. You are using every single muscle in your body. It's like sprinting for 10 minutes straight. A wrestling practice is the hardest thing you'll ever do in your life. Boxing is similar.
For those of you who disagree, you obviously have never wrestled.
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I would put boxers ahead of MMA. Top level wrestlers might be up there also but I think boxers still win.
Water polo players......you have to have tremendous stamina, strength AND be able to swim and tread water for hours......
Tim Faith wrote:
Thought of this on my run to work, and was wondering what you guys think?
I guess I'd go to say Decathletes, just because they are involved in more skeletal/muscular movements. Throws, jumps and sprints.
Define "athletic."
Boxers, no one is more fit than Pac Man.
Baesed on what reason?
MMA participants need to learn how to box (strike), but at the same time defend against takedowns. In addition you need wrestling skills, jiu-jitsu, ground & pound, other martial arts that involve striking with other body parts than fists (muay-tuy or karate or other).
The skill set is much larger than boxing and thus requires a more well rounded athlete. Does a boxer need to be flexible?
You need to workout like a wrestler (nothing harder), make weight, deal with the potential of being KO'd, choked unconscious etc...
No Question wrote:
Baesed on what reason?
MMA participants need to learn how to box (strike), but at the same time defend against takedowns. In addition you need wrestling skills, jiu-jitsu, ground & pound, other martial arts that involve striking with other body parts than fists (muay-tuy or karate or other).
The skill set is much larger than boxing and thus requires a more well rounded athlete. Does a boxer need to be flexible?
You need to workout like a wrestler (nothing harder), make weight, deal with the potential of being KO'd, choked unconscious etc...
How long do their fights last?
That's the problem, I don't know.
What is athletic?
I'll give it a shot. Perhaps, it's being well balanced at a multitude of activities not only, but including your specialty? Maybe something along those lines.
Maybe putting an athlete in an entirely different setting and having them perform activities (running, jumping, catching, throwing, lifting, wrestling, swimming, balance, cycling, sprinting, coordination, etc, etc...) and observing how they match up against elites or others that excel in that given activity?
The more I think about it, perhaps fighting may stand up against all others for the fact that maybe evolutionarily it is a form of competition, and those able to conquer the others by whatever means necessary survived? or is that getting too off topic?
These arguements you're all coming up with are great, nonetheless.
The most athletic person in the world is probably a soccer player. They got numbers on there side.
The most athletic set of athletes is probably either basketball or soccer players. The games require similar combinations of strength/speed/endurance/coordination with soccer using more endurance and basketball allowing more strength. (TO those saying basketball requires a lot more coordination: if you can dribble with your feet you won't find it hard to dribble with your hands, think Steve Nash).
At pretty much any high school in the US the best basketball player is also the best athlete.
In a well matched championship bout five, five minute rounds with 1-minute breaks. Thats alot more high intensity minutes than a 5k. Close to an elite 10k. So endurance can often decide a match. A match may end quickly or may go the distance.
Therefore you need to train to be explosive like a sprinter, but also be prepared to be able to endure like a distance runner.
The grappling that can take place in an MMA match is far more energy intensive (fatgiue inducing) than a stand-up boxing match.
Speed, agility, strenght, endurance, hand/eye coordination...Basketball players.
Go do a google search on Roman Sebrle, look at his event bests, and rethink your responses. Dude high jumped 7 feet, long jumped over 26, and ran the 110 in 13.68.
Dan O'Brien had even better performances event by event, but he couldn't put it all together as well over two consecutive days.
I'm not saying the MMA and NBA guys aren't great athletes, but the decathletes are the best.
I'm glad no douchebags have gotten on here yet and said baseball.
satch the geezer wrote:
blind 400m hurdlers
Wait, how do they know when the race is over?
Australian Rules footballers.
Have a look on YouTube.
Wind surfers.