You're a crappy bowler, John Smallberries
You're a crappy bowler, John Smallberries
Wrestlers, boxers too, but wrestlers are much more cardiovascular intensive. Boxers, are tired from the rounds and getting punched really hard on top of it. Imagine running intervals and getting punched in the face by someone really strong. Fighting requires the highest levels of mental and physical conditioning.
altoroad wrote:
John Smallberries wrote:Me and this guy were in the shower at the gym and were discussing. He thinks it's soccer players. He thinks that because they have nice bodies. I told him football players have way better bodies so by his logic, he's wrong.
Wrestlers.
I know I'll take a lot of crap from the let'srun crowd but:
World Class Triathletes- total body conditioning.
Yeah, I'll 2nd that, serious triathletes are probably the highest conditioned of all athletes. Nordic skiers are highly conditioned, but it is such a niche sport, only a handful of US states have it and only a few (mostly wealthy) folks in those states do it. Not a good representation of athletic abilities in that sport.
One more vote for wrestlers: strength, endurance/stamina, agility, balance.
NASCAR drivers!
Rowers and/or swimmers
add another vote for wrestlers
Australian Rules Football..easy
Nordic Skiers
". . . Nordic skiers are highly conditioned, but it is such a niche sport, only a handful of US states have it and only a few (mostly wealthy) folks in those states do it. Not a good representation of athletic abilities in that sport."
Hey, we've got ghetto nordic skiers here in Anchorage! And high-school nordic ski teams [this is true] that reflect a wide range of races and backgrounds!
... oh, wait. We don't. High-level nordic skiing in this country is increasingly drawing from the same demographics as lacrosse. (This is a perennial debate/source of regret on fasterskier.com. You think runners think their sport is maligned and neglected?) Carry on.
Although with respect, if you unpack your logic, I don't think that's necessarily fair: this debate seems to be asking, "which sport, at the high end, has the best-conditioned athletes"; in that case, nordic skiing stacks up impressively, and fairly, against any other sport out there, just by looking at the select/elite handful at the top. If instead you're asking, "which sport, across the board, has the most participants and the highest level of general conditioning," then the answer presumably has to be soccer, just for the sheer numbers involved.
But this is all just splitting hairs on my part.
Hair splitting aside; Nordic skiers, hands down.
therealLetsRun wrote:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
Any sport that you lose all your brain cells by the time you retire qualifies as the hardest for me.
Gravity sports are not athletics
Nordic Skiers wrote:
Gravity sports are not athletics
Doesn't every sport involve some sort of gravity?
The Mechanical Energy is zero for athletic sports.
907 born wrote:
I live in Anchorage. The nordic skiing community here is world-class. These guys - and girls - kick ass in both winter and summer.
I would love to hear the name of all those world class skiers from Anchorage!
Gravity sports, low resistance sports, horsey sports, motor sports, Nintendo sports, finger painting sports, and leisure sports are not athletic sports.
I would invest in a soap on a rope just in case
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